With the recent success of ‘Straight Outta Compton‘ — the incredible N.W.A biopic — people from that era also expressed their feelings and memories of that era. There has even been talks of multiple sequels and spin-off’s to ‘Straight Outta Compton’, but Noisey reached out to Ice Cube, DJ Yella, ex-cops and a few folk from the Compton area to speak about a specific record, N.W.A’s prolific, ‘Fuck Tha Police‘. The few individuals involved in the short documentary talk about the feel at the time, what the record meant to them and the overall impact.
Tim Brennan and Robert Ladd, who were police of Compton at the time explain what was going on at the time of the records release from the polices stand-point.
Within this 15 minute documentary, you’ll notice that not much has changed over the last 30 years.
Check out the documentary above and if you haven’t already, go check out, ‘Straight Outta Compton, the highest grossing biopic of all time.