Leading into the Thursday, March 1, premiere of FX’s Atlanta Robbin’ Season, FX will air the world television premiere of Straight Outta Compton in its unedited, R-rated version.

The film will air at 7 p.m. ET/PT, followed by Atlanta at 10 pm ET/PT. To prepare viewers, FX will run audio and visual warnings leading into the movie and out of every commercial break.

Straight Outta Compton tells the story of the early years of N.W.A: Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, and MC Ren, played by O’Shea Jackson (Ice Cube’s son), Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., and Aldis Hodge, respectively. It was directed by F. Gary Gray.

The multi-award-winning Atlanta is created, executive produced, written, directed and stars Donald Glover as Earn Marks, who’s trying to manage his cousin Alfred Miles’ (Brian Tyree Henry) burgeoning hip-hop career. Besides Glover, Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle and Stephen Glover, Donald’s brother, also executive produce.​

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