A surprising treat was seeing Jamie Kennedy play the late Jerry Heller. Marcos Taylor reprised his role as Suge Knight, and delivers once again as the evil CEO of Death Row Records. Just as he did in Straight Outta Compton, actor R. Rhyon had Michel’le’s high pitched voice down pat! At first, I wasn’t sure if I’d like Michle’le narrating the film in person, but it worked for the film, especially when she got emotional after reliving the first time Dre assaulted her. I’ve liked her ever since her days as Lizzie in Lincoln Heights, and as usual, she delivered. Rhyon Nicole Brown did a fantastic job as Michel’le. I’d heard that song a million times when I was little, but I never knew who sang it. I actually learned some new bits of trivia in this film, like the fact that Michel’le is close friends with Tichina Arnold (aka Pam from Martin), and that her first single was “ Turn Off the Lights” with World Class Wreckin’ Cru. But Surviving Compton was very engaging, and never had a dull moment.
SUGE KNIGHT IN SURVIVING COMPTON MOVIE
The June Carter movie was shit (sorry, Jewel), and the Aaliyah movie was just as bad, if not worse. For the last three or four years, Lifetime movies have fallen off, especially the biopics. Suge Knight watching news footage of Tupac being shot in Las Vegas when he was actually in the car with ‘Pac when he was killed), but for the most part, it was a great movie. Surviving Compton was a very enjoyable film. Suge and Michel’le eventually end up in a relationship themselves, and Michel’le soon learns that she pretty jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. She eventually meets Suge Knight, who treats Michel’le like a queen…at first. Michel’le tries her best to keep her career going in spite of the beatings she suffers at Dre’s hands, which lead to her own substance abuse problems. Thanks to bad advice from her well-meaning, but completely clueless grandmother, Michel’le continues dating Dre and even moves in with him, although his violence towards her escalates more and more. However, Dre’s drinking and puffin’ on the good stuff starts to increase, and all hell breaks loose. At first, Michel’le’s career is skyrocketing and her relationship with Dre is a sweet and caring one. The story reveals how Michle’le got her start with Ruthless Records, and eventually ended up dating Dr. In Surviving Compton, the story is told through Michel’le’s eyes, and we learn things that were conveniently left out of Straight Outta Compton.
SUGE KNIGHT IN SURVIVING COMPTON TV
Michel’le finally got to tell the story that unbeknownst to me, she’s been telling for years, in Lifetime’s TV biopic, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge and Michel’le. Dre had a serious relationship during the height of her career…and that Dre horribly abused her for years. I also recently learned that Michel’le and Dr. It wasn’t until recently that I learned that she was a part of Ruthless Records, the same label owned by Jerry Heller and Easy-E, which also launched N.W.A. Sure! When I was in third grade, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing Michel’le’s songs “ No More Lies” and “ Something in My Heart” playing on the radio. She received a lot of airplay on R&B stations back in the day, along with the likes of Surface, Skyy, Keith Sweat and Al B. Real talk, folks that aren’t African-American and/or weren’t around during the early 1990s may not remember Michel’le.
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