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Ice Cube premiered brand new footage from Straight Outta Compton at CinemaCon last week.
The rapper and actor appeared at the event in Las Vegas and spoke about the chairwoman of Universal, Donna Langley and her courage to make the NWA biopic. Speaking at the preview event, he said: "We made it possible for artists to be themselves. That's why we're called the world's most dangerous group". Ice Cube and Dr Dre both helped produce the film, which has been directed by F Gary Gray who has worked on music videos for Jay-Z, TLC and Ice Cube.
Tracing the roots right back to the 1992 Rodney King riots right and the banning of protest single 'F Da Police', the film will show the rise of NWA - arguably one of the most iconic and important rap groups in history.
Check out the latest trailer below.
Speaking to MTV earlier this year Ice Cube said: “In 1984, I met Compton’s best DJ. His name was Dr. Dre, the cousin of my homie Sir Jinx. He liked the neighborhood rhymes I was spitting and we started hanging out all the time. Talking and thinking music.
“A couple of years later, Dr. Dre’s little hustling friend Eric (Eazy-E) Wright started coming around,” he continued. “We all created a song together called “Boyz-N-The-Hood” … and the world would never be the same.”
Straight Outta Compton will be released in cinemas on 14 August.
