Reuters - Ice Cube helped create gangsta rap, sold millions of albums, starred in numerous movies, and now he is dabbling in something new, film journalism, as he targets U.S. professional football and the fate of his hometown Los Angeles.

Reuters - It was a match made in Heav -- well, let's just say an ideal match -- when the nascent gangsta rap scene discovered NFL bad boys the Los Angeles Raiders in the early 1980s. Pirate imagery, black hats, and rule-breaking athletes captured the imagination of kids on Compton's violent streets, who wore Raiders gear on MTV and turned the te...

AP - When the groundbreaking hip-hop group N.W.A. was forming in the mid-1980s, they didn't care much for the colorful Troop suits then being worn by rappers such as LL Cool J.

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New Line is developing Straight Outta Compton, a movie about controversial rap group N.W.A. EW reports that the film's producers (among them Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E's widow Tomica Wright) are "actively searching for a director along the lines of Curtis Hanson (8 Mile)." Which is exciting news, but whatever happened to Welcome Back, Biatch?...