In August 1988, N.W.A. released Straight Outta Compton, and the album promptly soared to number nine on Billboard's Top R&B ...

Ahead, see the cast side-by-side with their real-life counterparts, 10 years after the film's premiere. O'Shea Jackson Jr.

Straight Outta Compton,' starring O'Shea Jackson Jr. and Jason Mitchell, premiered on Aug. 14, 2015. See the cast ...

The 1990s may be the golden age of rap music, but that decade also boasted more than its fair share of tragedy with stars who died young.

Rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer Ice Cube was born O’Shea Jackson Sr. in Los Angeles in 1969. He formed his first rap group, C.I.A., in 1986. However, it was the gangsta rap group, N.W.A., ...