Both the Metro 60 and 128 Buses stop at the intersection. It’s a 1.3-mile walk from the Compton Blue Line station and is located on Long Beach Boulevard just north of Alondra. Gary Gray (warning: adult language):įinally, if headed to Compton, I’m pretty sure that Bludsos BBQ remains the best known restaurant in town. Here’s a screen grab:įor those interested, here’s a good panel discussion about the film by NWA and the film’s director F. I hadn’t seen it in years and it was certainly interesting to go back and watch. There’s even one brief glimpse of what appears to be a Blue Line platform. If you really need to see it, I’m sure you can find it. I can’t post the Straight Outta Compton video, which isn’t appropriate for a government website. Bigger picture: complaints about bus service, or lack thereof, was one of the many complaints coming out of Watts (which is just north of Compton) in the years before the 1965 riots erupted. I also found a couple mentions in various articles about mix tapes being sold and traded on the RTD buses in the 1980s before the music coming out of South L.A. The “R.T.D.”: the “Rough, Tough and Dangerous” That it’s wrong throwing rocks at the RTDĪnd for your transportation pleasures, you get to ride on what?… You might have silly thoughts, that were insane but just as hardĭon’t get me wrong I like to brag on the city I own You come talking that trash, we’ll pull your card Straight Outta Compton - Unrated Director's Cut tells the true story of how five young cultural rebels - armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and r. Nick name Eazy-E, and I’m down with the crew I said what’s up, we’ll be who riding on you The RTD - Rapid Transit District or Rough Tough and Dangerous, depending on your point of view - occasionally popped up in lyrics: Before there was Metro and before the Blue Line began running in 1990, there was the RTD running buses around South L.A. Transit’s role in this? Small but worth mentioning. That line is from the album’s infamous second track, which in more recent times has evolved into “ film the police” in the wake of Eric Garner’s death last year in Staten Island.
The album was raw, authentic, controversial, offensive to some and provocative lyrics such as “they have the authority to kill a minority” cemented its legacy.
1988), NWA’s debut album was a big enough deal that even white guys from suburban Ohio knew about it and heard it despite a ban on the music video and lack of radio play. That said, in days of yore before the internet (i.e. Surprise, surprise: I’m a white guy from suburban Ohio and no expert on hip-hop.
#WATCH STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON REDDIT MOVIE#
Below is a nice piece about the ride and reactions to the movie by NBC4’s Beverly White: Live (the movie opens Friday and will be playing at theaters throughout the region). Universal Pictures had invited about 150 community members from Compton to the premiere of “Straight Outta Compton” in DTLA and the group arranged to take the train to Pico Station to see the movie at L.A. I took the above photos early Monday evening on the Blue Line.
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