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Straight Outta Compton, the artful N.W.A biopic, has topped the box office two weekends in a row, earning a staggering $ million.

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Eight facts that moviegoers probably don't know about the hip-hop hit.

1. It has Lupita Nyong'o's seal of approval.

Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o has mad pride for Corey Hawkins (as a young Dr. Dre), whom she calls "irresistible." (They met while shooting her thriller Non-Stop.) His background is impressive: Hawkins is a Juilliard School graduate who starred on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet, playing Tybalt.

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This crew has history.

There's a reason director F. Gary Gray nailed the tone of N.W.A's story: He has known this crew for years. Early on, Gray helmed music videos for Ice Cube and Dr.

Dre, including It Was A Good Day, "which is the four-minute version of Friday to me," Ice Cube said in a YouTube roundtable recently. ('s Friday was Gray's feature debut.) "It's the same thing that Spike