Compton

You're not going out of that.

You're the only guy to let your woman go outside and she comes home with Compton breath.

I did say that.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey, let me ask you this.

Is Kendrick Lamar a bad leader for Los Angeles? Is he too inactive to be like the president that Los Angeles hip-hop needs?

No, no, because Los Angeles is going to keep him bound to Compton and the Blues.

They ain't going to let him help.

We had family.

My cousin Berger, he was from Santana block, Compton.

So, you know, I had my cousin Berger, but he wasn't there in Hawthorne with me, but I understood, you know, it's gang culture out here.

And I had to learn the hard way, me personally, because I didn't have no guidance until I got to the neighborhood.

You know what I'm saying? Neckbone is, you know, one of the keys to myself in general.

Neckbone always showed me love.

You know, he from Compton.

And he always showed me love.

Oh,

I used to go door to door in South Central LA, Compton, Whittier, Corona.

Oh, door knocking, door to door, trying to buy it.

Houses in foreclosure.

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remained unsolved for nearly 30 years and earlier this month former compton gang leader duane davis was convicted of tupac's murder and sentenced to 40 years to life and the key evidence against him his own words he told detectives he told documentary makers he even wrote it

in a book he says hey you know i can tell you i was at the peterson auto museum i saw What was going through your mind when all of this was coming out of his mouth? This man sat in front of you, literally confessing to one of the most high profile unsolved murders in American history.

murder right

Okay.

Because even me being raised like in the inner city, I was raised Compton, seven people, two bedroom apartment.

That's how we started.

But I'll tell you one thing, We had albums.

Keefie was like really rich.

Like Fing and Keefie, you know, I don't mean to throw the name out, but these really had the richest neighborhood in Compton when this went on.

Like hip hop is America's last hope.

If I was a politician, cuz, that really would be my

As much as you can be close with somebody from another community, he booked me for my first few shows.

He supported my first CD.

My fourth show, I performed at a thing that the Southside's do in Compton, and the manager's called Lane

Day,

I was working with the housing authorities of L.A. County.

Back then, they were L.A. City, L.A. County, Englewood, Compton, and Long Beach.

And then the sixth was Pasadena.

So my job was to be the liaison with them and developers and nonprofits who were using HUD programs.

We put in our guide, Rhonda Heyman, who is running for Superior Court, Los Angeles County, office number 64.

She's straight out of Compton.

She sure is.

She's a black woman.

Board of Equalization, a lot of folks are supporting Mike Gibson.

He's African-American.

He is, I think, from Compton, if I'm not mistaken.

But you have chosen Sam Sukhothan.

It's just like, but if you knew me way back when, because people always say, oh, you're from here or there.

No, I tell people, no, I grew up in Compton.

You know, I grew up in Compton.

My background is commercial construction.

They say, you're a construction worker? Oh, oh.