(23 May 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Compton, Calif. - 22 May 2025
1. Wide Compton High School signage
2. Medium Dr. Dre mural
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Dre, recording artist/executive:
“Amazing. Amazing. This is unbelievable. I was a kid coming here. This is actually my rival high school. I went to Centennial and I never would have imagined this would be happening right now.”
4. Wide Dr. Dre talks to fan
5. Wide Dr. Dre greets Micah Ali, President of Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Micah Ali, President of Compton Unified School District:
“The reverberations of Compton are felt internationally, around the globe. This here would be a laboratory of innovative practices for which our students will learn and then go on out into the world and do exactly what Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar has done. In addition to all of the other folks, who are academics, athletics, or athletes rather, and a host of other professions. So, again, this here stands as a testament to the fact that we're investing in high-quality education facilities as well as in world-class [inaudible] best practices.”
7. Wide Compton High School marching band performance
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Dre, recording artist/executive:
“Compton is a breeding ground for talent. There's something in the soil here. There's something special about growing up here, you know? There's a certain kind of grit that gets cultivated navigating these streets, and that grit carried me further than I could ever imagine.”
9. Wide ribbon cutting
10. Medium Dr. Dre posing with fans
11. Wide Monica Dykes, Compton High School alumna taking photographs
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Monica Dykes, Compton High School alumna
“Oh gosh, when I heard that, I cried and I pray that my grandchildren — I have seven grandchildren — I pray that they be able to come to my beautiful alumni school and represent and thank you thank you Dr. Dre. We love you.”
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Monica Dykes, Compton High School alumna
“It was always a challenge, you know, with the gang wars and drug stuff in the 80s. It was rough. So I had a great bunch of teachers. They would always say to stay focused, hey you're smarter than that, stay focused. You can do it, do your work.”
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Solona Theus, Compton High School attendance clerk
“I love it, I love it. Like I said, I'm glad he gave back to the community. And you can see what he has done, and right now, Compton is on the map. So he put Compton on the map.”
15. SOUNDBITE: Myshay Causey, student board member
“We have people who've shown up today from our 1967 classes and even earlier. And that's just a testament to how close-knit of a community this is that people feel like they're able to come back years and decades later to still show their involvement in their community and I hope that that continues on and 2075 I can still come back and be like oh I was part of the 2025 class and maybe watch a young woman like me give another speech and tell her about my journeys.”
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Micah Ali, President of Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees
“And to the students who will literally darken these doorsteps, who will walk these halls, this is all for you. We want you to go out and be beacons of hope. We want to go on and be examples of what excellence looks like when a community turns around and reinvests in you.”
17. Various of school performing arts center
STORYLINE:
Dr. Dre joined school officials this week at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Compton High School.
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