[ti:Intro (Explicit)] [ar:Dr. Dre] [al:Compton] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Intro (Explicit) - Dr. Dre [00:15.88]Compton was the American dream [00:17.82]Sunny California with a palm tree in the front yard the camper the boat [00:23.39] [00:24.02]Temptingly close to the los angel's in the 50s and 60s it became [00:28.02]The black American dream [00:29.80] [00:30.44]Open housing paved a way as middle class black flooded into the city [00:34.24] [00:34.99]Whites don't buy houses in Compton anymore [00:37.85] [00:38.48]Now with 74% of the population black power is the fact of life [00:42.84]From banks to bowling alleys [00:44.52] [00:45.22]Once a dream many black thought they've been buying has turned sour [00:49.44]Though the mayor and 4 out of 5 consul men are black [00:52.27]They have been unable to solve the problems of crime and growing welfare [00:56.51]Which is slowing suburban turning Compton into an extension of the black inner city [01:01.58]Crime is now as high as the ghetto [01:03.82]47 homicides last year [01:05.32]Gave Compton one of the highest per capital rates in the country [01:08.88]Juvenal activity muggings and small robberies make some blacks off to leave