'Straight Outta Compton' Costume Designer Opens Up: Kelli Jones talks to 'Fashionista' about how hard it was to get the '80s-'90s costume exactly right.

However, misogyny isn’t a N.W.A “side story,” as “Straight Outta Compton” director F. Gary Gray has said in order to explain its omission from the film.

Straight Outta Compton's Sox hat in 1986 didn't come out until 1991. Plus, the great Sox/Sex hat trend of the mid-1990s and our search for an original example.

2. N.W.A almost didn’t make it to Straight Outta Compton. At the conclusion of the group’s autumn 1987 tour opening for Salt-N-Pepa, Ice Cube informed the crew that he would be going to college.