Compton .
Compton -- that's where you're from.
Compton .
So Compton , part of the sprawling place that is Los Angeles, the police department decides-- the L.A. sheriff's department decides
But even in Compton , I wasn't getting those books, right?
My name is Lindsay Compton , and I work on publisher partnerships here at Google.
But even in Compton , I wasn't getting those books, right?
It's a Compton thing.
What does "Straight Outta Compton ," what does this movie mean, for your philanthropic efforts that you're doing for the city?
And people wear Compton with pride now.
And getting back to Compton specifically, but I have a youth center actually, called the Tom Bradley Youth Center
He's written this book in 2019 Compton Street Legend where he claims to be in the white Cadillac and Tosca's gone in
or can't come from Compton , or can't come from Atlanta?
You're straight out of Compton .
So we're literally like north of Compton .
How can we get in Compton Public Schools, right?
The first two are Carolyn Compton and Anna Barker, who are both at the National Cancer Institute and are now at Arizona State University.
it started with "Straight Outta Compton ," where the number one movie in the country featured African-American leads for five
Before Eazy E really pushed for Compton , people didn't even want to admit they was from Compton .
I see my man with the "Compton " on his hat.
And it ain't just Compton .
and support projects like "Straight Outta Compton " that are doing this, as well?
And as far as "Straight Outta Compton " goes, by us re-recording the whole album, I think it put me in a different mind frame of where I am today,
Like we interviewed The Game and Compton around LA.
and Ms. Nina Compton , this great, flavorful dish.
So imagine taking financial literacy to South Central or to Compton , taking high-net-worth individuals,
If you go three years earlier to the Compton cafeteria riots in 1966, less famous but they are a seminal point in queer history,
And Dr. Compton is a pathologist and she noticed that tissue that is collected either for blood or for organ--
It felt like LA and South Central Los Angeles and Compton were actually the sixth member of NWA in this film.
Well, it's like Compton and South Central, Long Beach, we was trying to really put the west coast on the map.
And Dre has really stepped up for the city of Compton , as well.
I was just at a conference with the mayor of Compton , Aja Brown, this amazing, 32-year-old, USC-trained planner who is now the mayor of Compton .
and and although I'm not I'm not really Compton to talk about anything except
the assignment desk all the time for people who lived in say Compton , right?
- I was tired of hearing, Compton 's in the house, New York this.
Straight out of Canada, not straight out of Compton .
And it was all because of the environment that we grew up in Compton , South Central LA, Watts, Long Beach.
of depicting police brutality and what that element did to people in the cities of Compton , Los Angeles, and to people all over the country.
And I'd heard about it and my agent was like, this movie "Straight Outta Compton " is about to-- and I'm like, dope.
Like you said, Los Angeles, Compton , South Central, they do feel like the sixth member of NWA.
And then to have, like you said, LA in "Compton " is like a sixth character in a movie.
They would say they was from Carson, which is right by Compton .
and was like, yo, now Compton 's in the house.
Duane Keith "Keffe D" Johnson is a 63-year-old alleged ex-gangster and shot-caller in the Southside Compton Crips, and
I think one of the things that always stuck out to me was that kid that is in the hood, that kid from Compton , that kid that grew up on Alondra, just
Sometimes we forget and we say, oh, look at Stonewall, or look at Compton cafeteria, or these different sort
So this is something that I was inspired by someone like Edouardo Jordan that went to Lagos, and you know, like, Nina Compton before, and so on.
I think one of the things that always stuck out to me was that kid that is in the hood, that kid from Compton ,
I'm from Compton .
Much Compton .