Hours before releasing his critically acclaimed third studio
album Compton, a sixteen track effort that’s musically “ornate and
grand-scaled”,as noted by the New York Times, and which is inspired by the
sounds and sights of his iconic hometown, Dr. Dre announced plans to fund a new
performing arts center in his old neighborhood. "I've been really trying
to do something special for Compton and just couldn't quite figure out what it
was," he told the Beats 1 host Zane Lowe in an interview conducted late
last week. The idea’s genesis came from Compton Mayor Aja Brown; "she was
already in the process of working on it,” Dre told Lowe, "so I said,
'Boom, this is what we should do!’” Compton, a body of work lauded by the Irish
Times as “magnificent”, with “track after track rocking back and forth with a
vibrant, invigorated and pointed momentum,” is rich with imagery and ideology
about life in the infamous southern Los Angeles neighborhood. It has been
heralded –via Rolling Stone, who remarks Compton “contains some of his most
ambitious, idea-stuffed production ever,” the Guardian, who names Dre’s “gift
for rejuvenation remarkable,” and Grantland who calls it “the first undeniably
earth-shifting and socially abstract eyes-wide-open moment in a solo career” –
as offering a unique new view of the city’s evolution over the last several
decades, since Dr. Dre and N.W.A. put Compton on the cultural map with the 1988
release of their classic record, Straight Outta Compton.
Hours before releasing his critically acclaimed third studio
album Compton, a sixteen track effort that’s musically “ornate and
grand-scaled”,as noted by the New York Times, and which is inspired by the
sounds and sights of his iconic hometown, Dr. Dre announced plans to fund a new
performing arts center in his old neighborhood. "I've been really trying
to do something special for Compton and just couldn't quite figure out what it
was," he told the Beats 1 host Zane Lowe in an interview conducted late
last week. The idea’s genesis came from Compton Mayor Aja Brown; "she was
already in the process of working on it,” Dre told Lowe, "so I said,
'Boom, this is what we should do!’” Compton, a body of work lauded by the Irish
Times as “magnificent”, with “track after track rocking back and forth with a
vibrant, invigorated and pointed momentum,” is rich with imagery and ideology
about life in the infamous southern Los Angeles neighborhood. It has been
heralded –via Rolling Stone, who remarks Compton “contains some of his most
ambitious, idea-stuffed production ever,” the Guardian, who names Dre’s “gift
for rejuvenation remarkable,” and Grantland who calls it “the first undeniably
earth-shifting and socially abstract eyes-wide-open moment in a solo career” –
as offering a unique new view of the city’s evolution over the last several
decades, since Dr. Dre and N.W.A. put Compton on the cultural map with the 1988
release of their classic record, Straight Outta Compton.
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