Universal Music Enterprises will release a soundtrack album for the hit biographical drama Straight Outta Compton. The album features classic tracks from gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, as well as tracks by funk and soul legends Parliament, Funkadelic, Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame and Roy Ayers Ubiquity. The soundtrack will be released digitally, on CD, and as a 2-LP vinyl set. To pre-order the CD, which is set for release on January 8, 2016, visit Amazon and click here to order the vinyl release. Straight Outta Compton is directed by F. Gary Gray and stars O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella and Paul Giamatti as N.W.A.’s manager Jerry Heller.
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Joseph Trapanese Scoring F. Gary Gray’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Joseph Trapanese mentioned in an interview with MTV that he is currently scoring the upcoming biographical drama Straight Outta Compton. The film is directed by F. Gary Gray and stars O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren and Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella. Paul Giamatti is co-starring as N.W.A.’s manager Jerry Heller. The movie is set in the mid-1980s and chronicles how five young men channeled their experiences growing up in Compton into brutally honest music and form the hip hop group N.W.A. Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are also producing the project with Matt Alvarez (Ride Along, Are We There Yet?) and Tomica Woods-Wright.