He remains jailed after losing a bid to have his $10 million bail reduced. However, Knight contends he was acting in self-defense and has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors have charged Knight, 50, with murder and attempted murder in the case. Terry Carter, 55, was killed and Cle “Bone” Sloan, an actor and activist, suffered serious injuries. According to law enforcement, he later followed two men to the production’s base camp at nearby Tam’s Burgers and intentionally plowed into them with his truck. Witnesses told police that Knight was involved in an argument on the set.
#ICE CUBE STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON TRIAL#
Marcus Taylor plays fallen hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, who is in jail awaiting trial in connection with a deadly hit-and-run on January 29 - the same day that Cube, Dre and fellow rapper The Game were in Compton shooting a promo for the film.Īlso Read: Ice Cube on Suge Knight's Murder Rap: 'I Hope You Get Out the Situation You're In' (Video) He had to become a great actor very fast and he had to do the work… Then he had to convince the brass over at Universal, the studio, that he was the right person for the part and not the other actors that they had auditioning.” “That’s another dream that I had, but a few things had to happen for it to come true,” Cube said. Ice Cube is played by his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Neil Brown Jr. The film, which analysts say is on track to make at or near its $29 million production budget on opening weekend, stars Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre's First Album in 15 Years, 'Compton: A Soundtrack,' to Drop Friday Dre, who’s now one of the music world’s wealthiest artists after selling his Beats Electronics to Apple for $3 billion.Īlso Read: Dr. “You gotta make a lot of people comfortable with the material,” Cube explained.Īmong those who needed convincing was Dr. The stigma from N.W.A’s past, coupled with the fact that the group’s surviving members had long since moved on, made the project a tough sell. But its members also sparked controversy for their explicit lyrics, “glamorizing gangs and drugs” and eyebrow-raising singles such as “Fu*k tha Police,” which drew condemnation from law enforcement agencies. The groundbreaking group sold millions of records and helped put West Coast rap on the map. Dre, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince and Eazy-E, who died in 1995.Īlso Read: 'Straight Outta Compton' Review: Ice Cube, Dr. The film traces the origins of N.W.A (an acronym for Niggaz Wit Attitudes) - the gangsta rap group Ice Cube co-founded in Compton, California, in 1987 along with original members Dr. “But as the dream, it goes back almost 10 years.” It’s been a four-year process and that’s just actual process,” Ice Cube told TheWrap about the Universal Pictures release, which hits theaters August 14. “It was one of the hardest movies I ever had to get made. But the hip-hop mogul said his latest project, the N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” took years to get rolling.
Ice Cube has been a Hollywood player for two decades, producing a string of films including the “Friday” franchise, “Ride Along” and the “Barbershop” films.
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