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Company universal. i was joined in studio by oshea jackson jr. who plays ice cube, cory hawkins who plays dre and jason mitchell who plays easy e in "straight outta compton." we asked jackson how he prepared to portray his father on screen. >> it was a two-year auditions before i got considered for a chemistry test where i met these guys and universal selected -- >> we got to pause and dig into that. there's going to be a lot of people watching, this didn't take you no two years to get a role to play your father. you should have walked into it. >> not a studio like universal, isn't going to ap...

Like the cultural product that is nwa their music is one thing but now you all have participated in it. you have now created this thing which is going to mean across the world so much to so many people. so you now are part of the big story that is nwa. that is huge. >> gary used to say to us on set you guys are making history about a group that made history. those words always resonated, always came with a little bit of pressure but it's funny, when we talk to dre, they were just having fun. they wanted to be hood stars, they wanted to make music for the neighborhood and they ended up touching...

In the scenes, and i'm very thankful for gary gray for making me feel that safe to pull out all my creative guns, you know what i mean and it really came across pretty well. >> because we felt that loss. i mean let me just say as someone who graduated from college in '94, that loss in real time in '95 when that happened, we felt it in a real way and you were able to capture it. >> thank you. >> i basically play nothing but nwa on my ipod for about three days as i was prepping because i was thinking through it about you all and i was wondering is that the only thing you're playing on the set? w...

Homicide on violence and it takes its toll on the communities of color. in 2012, 75% of deaths were black or latino and despite having the nation's strictest gun laws they struggle to keep firearms from come in. three in the suburbs and one in gary, indiana, provided 20% of the guns recovered in crime scenes by police in 2009 an 2013. two chicago moms are joining local activists s in suing the three suburbs for not having tough enough gp laws and they're arguing these laws or the lack thereof constitute a civil rights violation, specifically the cause of the illinois civil rights act targeting...