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Zurita said the movie was a trip down memory lane - she went to prom with DJ Yella, a founding member of N.W.A. It was about the struggle and success of five men from Compton.” “It was not about Bloods and Crips and a bunch of gangbanging. “It was not about what people have portrayed it to be,” she said. She said the movie tactfully addressed the city’s problems without dwelling on the violence.
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“It’s trying to find its balance.”Ĭompton councilwoman Janna Zurita attended Monday’s premiere of the film in downtown Los Angeles, along with 150 other Compton residents, who were given free tickets. “Compton is still rocking and reeling from the ‘80s,” he said. Sipping a coffee at a Starbucks with a laptop before him, longtime resident Calvin Moore, 60, said the Compton of today is recovering from its past, but slowly. “I really don’t want the kids to see it,” Hicks said. He said he hoped movie-goers would skip the film. Resident Bobby Hicks, 76, however, said he lived in Compton during the difficult years chronicled by the film, and he isn’t interested in revisiting them. “They are just showing the new generation what it was like back then.” The movie about how it all came to be has been widely anticipated by hip-hop fans - and many locals.Įbony Jackson, 33, said the movie would allow residents to reflect on how far the city has come. When it was released in 1988, N.W.A’s album “Straight Outta Compton” put the city on the map and transformed the group’s members - including Ice Cube, Eazy-E and Dr. Still, residents routinely fill City Council meetings to complain about large potholes and discarded furniture littering the sidewalks.
For the last three fiscal years, the city has managed to balance its annual budget and this year had a $850,000 surplus, said City Manager Johnny Ford. The city recently rehired 200 City Hall employees and reduced its deficit to $36 million. In 2011, in the face of a $43-million deficit, Compton laid off hundreds of workers and amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars in late fees when it couldn’t pay its policing contract with the Sheriff’s Department on time.īut the economic situation is improving, officials say.
Today, the unemployment rate is 12.7% - 32% higher than it was in 2000, according to the California Employment Development Department.
The median income in 2013 was $42, 953, down from an adjusted median income of $46,376 in 1990, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of census and other data. Last year, there were 17 killings, down from a peak of 87 in 1991.īut in other areas, Compton continues to lag. Brown said the decline was accomplished without extra spending on law enforcement. In the first half of 2015, Compton experienced a 5% decrease in overall crime even as the city of Los Angeles experienced a 12.7% jump, said L.A. The crime, especially the gang killings, that gave Compton its dubious fame so many years ago, has receded significantly. (There’s no movie theater in the city, though, so one has to go straight out of Compton to watch “Straight Outta Compton.”)
“Welcome to the Compton of today and the strides that are being made to return Compton to the beautiful, thriving suburban city it once was.”Ĭity officials also point to a Walmart Supercenter, which will replace the aging Compton Swap Meet, where N.W.A and other artists hawked their albums when major record stores would not sell them. “There’s more to the City of Compton than its worldwide reputation as the ‘home of gangsta rap,’” the website tells visitors. Transit Center, a 10,000-square-foot office and retail center, which welcomes rail and bus commuters to town with a 12-foot-tall “Compton” sign. The filmmakers joined in the boosterism, including in the film’s closing credits a link to The website highlights recent economic development in the city of about 100,000 residents: the Gateway Towne Center, opened in 2007, which features Target, Home Depot and other stores that residents once had to leave town to visit, as well as the Martin Luther King Jr.
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