Compton businesses say they lost thousands over Kendrick Lamar video shoot
Saturdays are usually busy days for Alma’s Place, a soul food restaurant in Compton across from the city’s courthouse.But roughly an hour into opening on…
A Compton native tells a new generation his story of their hometown
Albert M. Camarillo is as old school Compton as they come.His father migrated from the Mexican state of Michoacán as a teenager in 1914, when…
A guide to Compton: The best things to do, see and eat
In Kendrick Lamar’s star-studded music video for “Not Like Us” — a diss record aimed at Canadian rapper Drake — hundreds of fans are standing…
Kendrick Lamar films ‘Not Like Us’ music video in Compton
Searching for rap fans sick and tired of Kendrick Lamar‘s irresistible”Not Like Us?” You won’t find them in the rapper’s native Compton. Days after rocking…
Larry Allen dead: Cowboys Hall of Famer was 52
Larry Allen was an enormous man with unsurpassed talent and a ferocious demeanor on the football field. In 14 NFL seasons — 12 with the…
Eazy-E to get a Compton street named after him — see where
Soon, you can be cruising down Eazy Street in your ’64. Next week, Compton will unveil the newly renamed road dedicated to the late rap…
Compton Rappers Versus the Letter of the Law : FBI Claims Song by N.W.A. Advocates Violence on Police
First Amendment activists and a member of Congress said this week that the FBI may have stepped out of line with a letter accusing a…