“This LAPD,” the officer tells him, “I'm the only gangster out here.” Cube arrives at his friend Dre's home and recounts the tale of an OG boarding his school bus to give a “motivational speech,” only to, minutes later, find himself slammed into the hood of a policeman's car, being frisked aggressively for no discernible reason. “Y'all m********** need to gang bang them books,” he warns. “Y'all n*ggas ready to die today?” one asks the students, who moments ago were playfully throwing gang signs out the window and now stare down the barrels of guns. The next, a young Ice Cube is returning home from his largely white school district, when a group of Bloods storm onto the bus. Dre, whose mother slaps him across the face before giving him a fraught lecture on responsibility and ejecting him from her home. In the next scene we meet Andre, known to most viewers as Dr. E escapes through a window, narrowly avoiding the sharp fangs of a mad dog before hopping from rooftop to rooftop as the film's title appears on the screen. Before their conflict is resolved, an armored tank branded with the logo of the Los Angeles Police Department plows through a wall of the home and directly into the body of a young woman. “Why you gotta be so ruthless?” his business associates ask, drawing their weapons. After delivering drugs to a dope house, blue bandanas donning its walls, he hurls invective toward an unnamed female who offers him a forty. The film introduces us to Eric, aka, we're told, Eazy-E, soon to be member of the iconic hip hop group N.W.A. In its explosive first minutes, "Straight Outta Compton" drops the viewer abruptly, without condescension or pretense, into a world where violence is omnipresent.
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