HotNewHipHop: Dre and Cube on Making Straight Outta Compton

By Miles Carter, November 11, 2026

HotNewHipHop reported on Nov 8, 2026, at 5:28 PM ET, that Dr. Dre and Ice Cube discussed the fight to get Straight Outta Compton made during the debut episode of Listen and Laugh. HNHH placed that exchange around the 59-minute mark of the official YouTube episode "Dr. Dre On How It All Started," posted Nov 6, 2026.

According to HNHH, Ice Cube said, "You know how hard it is to make a biopic, though," and, "We still got people complaining about the one we made, not knowing how hard it is to shove ten years into two hours. With four different people, and all the fighting we had to do with the movie company... They didn't want Ren to have lines, they didn't want Yella to have lines. We was like, 'You can't put them in the movie as just background.'" HNHH reported that Dre added, "Who are you? You weren't even there."

The comments come from the same Nov 6, 2026, Listen and Laugh episode in which Dre also talked about going off the grid.

Dr. Dre On How It All Started

Following five characters

HNHH also quoted Cube saying, "These are people who've made a lot of movies, and understand there's no way you can follow five characters and tell everybody's backstory."