

In the short film, the enterprising dad explains the inspiration for Hood Life Tours came from going to his son’s concerts and seeing a rich white audience singing along without any knowledge of what they were singing along to. The Hood Life Tour is a modern black history, music, and culture tour of LA. It’s just about in the top 20 for danger, residents earn far below the state average in income levels, and almost 1 in 4 people here never graduated high school.

(That strip club is also where The Game danced a couple times in a thong, later prompting mockery by 50 Cent.) Another landmark on the Hood Life tour? Eazy-E‘s childhood home (see picture below), which Sababu points out in a drive-by. The Compton Cowboys motto is 'the streets raised us, the horses saved us.' 6 The team works to provide an alternative route and positive role models to inner-city youth. The ghost hunting team (called Official Paranormal Operations or O.P.O.) goes to a number of places according to a trailer that dropped with the announcement: a haunted piñata shop in South. If there is any doubt as to whether or not Oakland is the most ghetto city in the state, look at the numbers.

Dre’s security while Dre was filming a commercial nearby for Straight Outta Compton. And he also makes note of the exotic male dance club he and Taylor’s mom started, hiring mostly beefed-up ex-cons freshly out of jail. Tam’s Burgers is the Compton takeaway spot where Suge Knight was charged with murder last year after allegedly driving over Terry Carter, a former business partner of Ice Cube, after being barred by Dr. He points out the Figueroa Street “ho-stroll,” the go-to strip for all your prostitution needs and where he used to sell drugs. Southern California's Inland Empire served as an opportunity for Black Americans to grasp the American dream of homeownership until they were disproportionately targeted for subprime loans.
