Top 105 Compton Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.
I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.
My mom and her whole side of the family, they all from Compton.
Thank you to Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Universal Studios, and the Grammys for telling the story of what Compton was and is becoming.
As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.
Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though they were from the same environment.
From a planning perspective, I thought Compton was phenomenal. It has a huge potential to be a great city, and I always bet on the underdog.
I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.
The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.
I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.
I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.
If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.
The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.
When Dre and I started making the 'Straight Outta Compton' record, every day on our way to the studio, we would listen to the 'It Takes A Nation' album.
We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.
Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's a part of history. I hope this movie [ 'Surviving Compton'] gives you a little bit of me and of my music and my heart.
I was born in Compton, raised all through the city of Los Angeles.
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it's not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a rough life; instead, his world-weariness seems to result from years of soul-searching.
You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
People are taking a second look at Compton or rethinking what they believed to be true. Even the rap stars who helped established Compton's reputation worldwide are older now, and even their images have evolved.
I put Compton on the map.
Kendrick Lamar represents Compton's evolution, embodying the New Vision for Compton - Purpose, Prosperity, and Progress.
The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and it was safe.
Compton is this amazing place with a rich history. I see it as a new Brooklyn.
I just feel like it's a blessing to be able to represent Compton.
As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
Universal woke us up with a movie called 'Straight Outta Compton.'
If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.
I think Compton is definitely a part of my, my family history - a part of me.
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.
I've filmed a lot of my videos in Compton, but filming a movie, we really can't do it because the police will come and shut you down.
'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.
Some people don't have a home or a place where they can cook a warm meal, and so we're thankful for the generosity of YG and the 4Hundred Waze Foundation to feed the community in the city of Compton.
I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered, so that is how he portrayed it. And he had every right to do that. As did I.
People who come from Compton - they're overcoming so many challenges that most people don't have to overcome, but that creates special tenacity and different skills that you just can't manufacture.
For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.
Compton is a much safer Compton than it was in the '80s. People play in parks. People aren't afraid to be out at night.
Compton is my city.
I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.
We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.
I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.
I think Compton is a really attractive place for young families.
The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.
'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.
If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
I've known Nick Compton a long time. He's a fully-formed cricketer and he's scored lots of runs.
There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If you think about the Oscars snubbing 'Straight Outta Compton,' in a way, that kicked all of this off.
I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.
I got invited to work on Dre's 'Compton' project.
'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.
My dad was in the RAF, so we travelled quite a lot. My memory's not the best - I remember we lived in Belgium for a bit - but I grew up in a village called Compton in Newbury.
