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(14A) Coarse Language, NuditySynopsis
Biography/Music. In the late 1980s, rap artists Easy-E (Jason Mitchell), Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Jr.), and Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins) unite with their friends to form N.W.A, immediately attracting fans and making enemies due to their politically-charged performances.
Content elements
- Pervasive use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; pervasive use of scatological slang, vulgar expressions, and ethno-cultural slurs, some in an aggressive context; infrequent use of crude sexual references
- Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - little detail
- Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - brief breast nudity, little detail
- Infrequent breast and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
- Frequent portrayals of illegal drug use for recreational purposes - little detail
Thematic elements
- Art as social comment
- The price of success
- Reactions to repression
Classification rationale
Rated 14A for pervasive coarse language, some sexual content, and drug use in a biographical context
Classification date
July 23, 2015Was this page helpful?
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