Cities Quote by Kendrick Lamar

I've always been infatuated with west coast gangster music & movies so I went to Compton today. Just crossed that off my bucket list.

— Amber Rose

The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and…

— Aja Brown

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up…

— Ice Cube

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California…

— Chad Smith

Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing…

— Moshe Kasher

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and…

— Lenny Kravitz

I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

— Thundercat

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

— Dante Basco

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of…

— Mike Posner

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can…

— Danny Brown

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

— Ziggy Marley

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

— Big Sean