“Straight Outta Compton,” the biopic of hip-hop group N.W.A., seems to have struck a nerve amid a steady stream of highly publicized police violence toward black men. The film frames the group as political artists who verbalized an experience that had yet to be articulated; Ice Cube has called their songs “truth-telling street knowledge.” It’s hard to listen to their most famous song, “Fuck Tha Police,” and not feel like it could have been written today:
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