“Compton hasn't changed,” Ice Cube says of the L.A. suburb where he got his start. “It's wack. It's pretty much the same thing as it's always been, and that's fucked up really…. You don't know what's going to happen from day to day, and it can go from cool, quiet and fun to somebody's shot, arrested, murdered or whatever. You can die for no reason.”
Growing up in that environment inspired the rapper – along with luminaries Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella – to form N.W.A, the controversy-welcoming group…
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