These suburbs lack strong business districts, limiting their commercial potential, and they contain aging housing stocks, which diminish their appeal to higher-income earners.Īffordability and accessibility denied inner-ring suburbs like Compton any aura of suburban exclusivity, and made them ripe for racial turnover. Instead, Compton is emblematic of inner-ring suburbs, which developed next to central cities as primarily single-use, residential-only subdivisions. But this suburb never fit into what became the middle-class suburban model: a deep tax base, good schools, and an overwhelmingly white populace. It’s located near the geographic center of Los Angeles County, 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Compton may be legally incorporated as a city, like all California municipalities, but it’s actually a suburban town.
N.W.A’s music videos featured mean streets and back alleys, but, in fleeting images, the viewer could also see that modest-single family homes with small lawns were also part of the landscape-counter to what most people think of as a ghetto. Compton went from being majority white in the 1950s to majority African American in the 1970s to majority Latino in the 1990s. But a closer look at Compton’s history reveals a different story: a hidden history of the “other” suburbia. managed to make Compton a persistent cultural byword for urban decay and inner-city crime. The report, also titled “Straight Outta Compton,” used the town’s schools to show how students participate in sports “to survive in gang-infested communities.” N.W.A. As recently as 2011, Sports Illustrated and CBS News together produced a special report about gangs and schools that reaffirmed Compton’s status as a merciless urban jungle. N.W.A’s vision has continued to define what many Americans know about Compton. Dre’s new album, Compton, the town has again gained national attention. With the release of the N.W.A biopic and Dr. The threatening tableau posed unsettling contrast to the backdrop of cerulean California sky. Indeed, the then-six members of N.W.A stared menacingly from the album cover, as group leader Eazy-E held a gun, point blank, at the viewer. The double-platinum album’s song lyrics and music videos emphasized street life and economic devastation, portraying Compton as brutal and lawless. The 1988 release of N.W.A’s “gangsta” rap album Straight Outta Compton vaulted Compton, California, into the national spotlight as a symbol of urban gang violence.
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