Paak invoking the “I can’t breathe” exclamation uttered by Staten Island resident Eric Garner in his dying moments over a droning trumpet and seaside sounds that eventually descend into placidity. Unsurprisingly given the backdrops of the movie’s release and the realities of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Compton also has its explicitly political moments. Who, it so happens, are being put into the record books with Straight Outta Compton, a biopic about the group that hits multiplexes Aug. Dre, of course, achieved the American dream-fame, fortune, an executive suite in one of the world’s leading companies-by describing the curdling of that dream in exacting detail with his fellow firebrands in N.W.A. Compton also has a substantial assist from the neighborhood’s latest hip-hop sensation: Kendrick Lamar, who’s achieved the dual feat of critical adoration and pop crossover thanks to his dense, mind-bending To Pimp A Butterfly and his verses on the chart-topping remix of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”-a rare feat for any MC in 2015.Ĭompton opens with an intro that recalls a documentary, with a haughty voice intoning that “Compton was the American dream” and eventually recounting how its middle-class promise tipped into violence and crime, citing statistics and an eventually overpowering sense of dread. Paak and the Detroit MC Jon Connor fellow boldfaced names like Eminem and Snoop Dogg R&B powerhouses Marsha Ambrosius and Jill Scott. The tracklisting promised an album stuffed with guests: up-and-coming artists like the Oxnard songwriter Anderson. “The record, it just wasn’t good… I worked my ass off on it, and I don’t think I did a good enough job.” Enter Compton, a brand-new album that would be out in mere days. Last week, while hosting his show on Apple Music’s radio station Beats 1-oh yeah, he does that too-he announced that the Detox era was dead.
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