Compton

Soon, you can be cruising down Eazy Street in your ’64. Next week, Compton will unveil the newly renamed road dedicated to the late rap icon Eazy-E, who was born and raised in the city. The rapper, alongside fellow N.W.A. members Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Arabian Prince, popularized Compton through their era-defining West Coast rap albums. Eazy-E, whose real name is Eric Lynn Wright, died in March 1995 at age 30, days after he announced he had been diagnosed with AIDS.In September, the Compton City Council…

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for MTV Actor Jason Mitchell is recalling the real-life events that occurred on set of Straight Outta Compton. The film, which began production in 2014 and made its theatrical debut the following year, follows the lives of hip hop group NWA as they rose to fame in the 1980s with their often catchy yet controversial songs. Straight Outta Compton also starred O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, Marlon Yates Jr., R. Marcus Taylor, Carra Patterson, Alexandra Shipp,…

A tornado touched down Thursday morning in the Carson and Compton area, causing some minor damage with winds reaching 75 mph, according to the National Weather Service.The brief tornado hit at 8:45 a.m. and registered an EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meteorologists said. The tornado left behind a concentrated short path that damaged a building, some vehicles and trees, according to the National Weather Service. Video posted on social media showed debris swirling in the sky beneath an updraft base of thunderstorm…

| Rodney Barnes will follow his two Image Comics creator-owned series Killadelphia and Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog, with a new comic book series, Monarch, with artist Alex Lins. All the while being the co-creator and executive producer of Winning Time for HBO and developing new projects for them. Monarch is the latest book from his Zombie Love Studios imprint, a new tale of "terror and high-stakes science fiction that hits close to home!" Rodney Barnes says "I've always loved films like Attack the Block and War of the…

Kee Riches, a 23-year-old L.A. rapper, was shot and killed in Compton on Saturday night.Riches, whose real name is Kian Nellum, was shot along with another man — 29-year-old Robert Leflore Jr. — around 9:40 p.m. on the 1500 block of S. Chester Avenue in Compton, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and L.A. County Medical Examiner-Coroner records.Tributes poured in across the artist’s social media accounts upon word of his death. The “2 Live” and “Westside Lady” rapper was known in the area for his love of…