Intro (Explicit) - Dr. Dre

Compton was the American dream

Sunny California with a palm tree in the front yard the camper the boat

Temptingly close to the los angel's in the 50s and 60s it became

The black American dream

Open housing paved a way as middle class black flooded into the city

Whites don't buy houses in Compton anymore

Now with 74% of the population black power is the fact of life

From banks to bowling alleys

Once a dream many black thought they've been buying has turned sour

Though the mayor and 4 out of 5 consul men are black

They have been unable to solve the problems of crime and growing welfare

Which is slowing suburban turning Compton into an extension of the black inner city

Crime is now as high as the ghetto

47 homicides last year

Gave Compton one of the highest per capital rates in the country

Juvenal activity muggings and small robberies make some blacks off to leave