00:00Straight Outta Compton, it topped the box office for a second straight week, bringing in now 111.5, and don't forget the .5 million dollars in just two weeks.
00:20What kind of impact do you feel this film has had, not only in pop culture, but just in the movie industry in general?
00:25I think it's just another indication that black folks want to see themselves on television, they want to hear our stories, and there was a really, actually, poignant person on my Facebook page said that he, his name is Hans Elder, actually, he said he cried watching the film, he was like, we are hip-hop, so it just made me realize there's like a whole generation of people who haven't been spoke to on film, you know what I mean, and those stories are real, I mean, yes, this was a celebrity story and a music story,
00:54but I think there's something in, there was something about him saying that, and a lot of people started responding, saying, yes, this was our life, this is our life, we are still hip-hop, so hopefully music, I mean, movie studios will take that and develop more movies for us.
01:09And it's the way in which it was told, because a lot of times we see documentaries, or we see something extremely sensationalized, if you will, but it was like a real conversation that was being had.
01:18It was, and it was so timely, because I'll be completely honest, I was not interested in seeing this movie, because, you know, well, just because of what I do, you know, it was no-named actors, it was N.W.A., you know what I mean, for what we do, it's like, you know, they haven't uplifted black women, you know what I mean?
01:36That's a very valid point, so I was a little hesitant, so I went in there with really low expectations, and I was just blown away, because I realized that was the music of my youth, that was the music I grew to, whether I liked it or not, whether my mama was not happy with me playing it, but it was still my life, and the trajectory that it told its story, so I think that that's what helped it just resonate so well with people.
02:01And also, it was a great movie. F. Gary Gray did his thing. Our West Coast editor, Regina Robertson, she wrote me back, tweeted me, and said, he is a beast behind the lens.
02:09I love it.
02:10Yeah.
02:10And so this has also opened the doors now, you're hearing talks about other sequels, say Tupac, Snoop Dogg, what are your thoughts on that?
02:17Well, you know, Universal has said there won't be another N.W.A. sequel, you know, but, you know, things could change, but I think that there's a lot of buzz around the guy who played Tupac, because he looks so much like him.
02:27You know, I was reading something in The Guardian, they said they want an old, old, old dirty bastard biopic.
02:33Okay.
02:34So I think these are just rumors, but I think the success of Straight Outta Compton let people know that there are other stories that need to be told, and we will come for it, and we will sit and enjoy it.
02:44I have to admit, I was watching A Different World on Netflix, which is like my thing to do, and Tupac was on playing piccolo, Jada's boo, and I was like, oh, Tupac, and then he smiles and he had the nose ring.
02:54I was like, what? So I would really, really love to do this in my own personal life.
02:58I mean, that would be an interest, especially from his youth and with his mom and the Black Panthers.
03:02He's very dynamic.
03:03Yeah, and he was a poet, and the Baltimore, I mean, it was perfect.
