Though Haber has been immersed in the world of cricket since attending public school as a child in England, bringing it to Compton was a new challenge and a culture shock. She started the group with a partner, homeless rights advocate, Ted Hayes, as a gang prevention program in the mid-'90s. We're joined by Katy Haber, one of the cofounders of the Compton Cricket Club. His life reflects an odd collision with the Compton you know and the Compton you don't - which is clear as his jovial voice narrates our driving tour of the city, including different cricket practice fields as well as dividing lines, including one intersection Pinales points out, "that actually separates the Bloods from the Crips." The trips abroad for cricket have taken Sergio Pinales a world away from the place he grew up, and still lives. "Who has the opportunity to have tea with Prince Edward?" she asks. Thanks to cricket, her son became a new kind of Compton star, and achieved something she could never have imagined. Getty Images Sergio Pinales packs up after a training session with his Compton cricket teammates at Woodley Cricket Field on Jan. "I'm old," Maria Pinales says, "but I love all that music." Bob Marley." It turns out his mom, Maria Pinales, is more excited about the Straight Outta Compton movie than he is. "I'd rather listen to some Sade or you know some slow groove music like that. "I'm more of a subtle person," Pinales says. The icons he looked up to were cricket players, not rap stars. Outsiders have a lot of stereotypes about Compton, but it's impossible to pigeonhole Pinales, who grew up during the rise of N.W.A and other Compton-bred gangsta and reality rap groups. He's also a longtime member of the Compton Cricket Club, an unlikely organization whose players and cofounders are part of a current exhibition in England's prestigious National Portrait Gallery. Sergio Pinales is Mexican-American and a product of the Compton streets. Almost 30 years later, I went to visit a Compton cricket player - right before a quinceañera. But there's one character that doesn't change much in the film, and that is the city itself - the City of Compton.įrom the movie's opening scenes in 1986, viewers see a city defined by strife and crime, as the camera follows soon-to-be rap star Eric "Eazy-E" Wright to a darkly lit house in Compton, right before a drug raid. Straight Outta Compton is a music biopic that captures the dramatic rise and evolution of rap supergroup N.W.A.
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