Today is the day. NWA’s biopic “Straight Outta Compton” has hit theaters.
It’s a special moment when an artist comes face-to-face with his icons. Billboard magazine proved the opportunity for Kendrick Lamar to sit down and interview N.W.A for Billboard’s new cover story.
“Anything that I do, at all, has come from what y’all done,” Kendrick Lamar, also a native of Compton, Calif., told the group before asking them their thoughts on Lamar’s generation of rappers.
N.W.A also discussed the impact that their late friend and group member Eazy-E (who died of AIDS in 1995) had on each one of them, and the group as a whole. “He knew before we knew what was going to pop,” explains Ren. And though Dre admits that though he and Eazy “argued night and day,” it was “always out of mutual respect. Always out of a desire to get the best. And always settled with a cool compromise.”
Dre adds: “We knew we were both trying to be something that was great.”
Watch the exclusive full conversation between Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A’s DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and MC Ren above.
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