{"id":21945,"date":"2016-01-17T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21945"},"modified":"2016-01-17T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:11:09","slug":"compton-grammy-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/compton-grammy-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Winner Straight Outta Compton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/larmark.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured\u00a0is\u00a0Compton Mayor Aja Brown (33) with Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar (28) who was born and raised in Compton.<\/p>\n<p>How well\u00a0do you know\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/compton.html\">Compton<\/a>? It\u00a0has a reputation as rough place,\u00a0but\u00a0is receiving positive press, thanks to the mayor&#8217;s \u2018New Vision for Compton\u2019 revitalization strategy, and the Grammy winners&#8217; songs &amp; videos using Compton as a backdrop.\u00a0The mayor is presenting The\u00a0Key to the City to Lamar on February 13, 2016, just two days shy of the Grammy Awards presentation in which the music star has a whopping 11 nominations for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rap Album! In 2015 he\u00a0picked up two\u00a0awards\u00a0for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for &#8220;i&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama invited Kendrick Lamar\u00a0to the White House recently to\u00a0discuss Pay it Forward mentoring campaign and said\u00a0Lamar&#8217;s\u00a0\u201cHow Much A Dollar Cost,\u201d was his favorite song. Stay tuned for the\u00a0upcoming\u00a0movie release, &#8220;Straight Outta Compton,&#8221;\u00a0in theaters this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured\u00a0is\u00a0Compton Mayor Aja Brown (33) with Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar (28) who was born and raised in Compton. How well\u00a0do you know\u00a0Compton? It\u00a0has a reputation as rough place,\u00a0but\u00a0is receiving positive press, thanks to the mayor&#8217;s \u2018New Vision for Compton\u2019 revitalization strategy, and the Grammy winners&#8217; songs &amp; videos using Compton as a backdrop.\u00a0The mayor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}