{"id":657273,"date":"2026-05-08T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:53:14","slug":"kendrick-lamar-dr-dre-at-centennial-hs-groundbreaking-event-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657273\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre at Centennial HS Groundbreaking Event: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKendrick Lamar<\/a> and Dr. Dre<\/a> attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Centennial High School campus on Thursday in Compton, California. The artists, who returned to their alma mater, were joined by will.i.am. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the event, Micah Ali, board president of Compton Unified School District, invited Dre to give a speech. The music mogul reflected on the significance of the moment when addressing the crowd. \u201cToday is really nostalgic for me,\u201d said Dre. \u201cSometimes you hear that term \u2018full circle.\u2019 This is really a full circle moment for me, because I did actually attend this high school.\u201d The artist digressed, \u201cWell, sometimes I attended. I was enrolled, I was here, sometimes,\u201d before continuing, \u201cI\u2019m making a commitment, and that commitment is to let go of the notion of giving back. Instead, I\u2019m embracing the power of investing forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tDre emphasized, \u201cToday isn\u2019t just about a new building, it\u2019s about a promise kept to the city that made me \u2014 point blank. Period.\u201d He added, \u201cThis groundbreaking is where the vision we\u2019ve shared for years finally hits the pavement. We aren\u2019t just moving dirt today. We\u2019re investing in the next generation that\u2019s coming straight out of Compton.\u201d Dre added, \u201cWe\u2019re tearing down walls and opening doors for our next scholars, innovators, creators, pioneers, technicians, and engineers that absolutely have the potential to change this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDre and Lamafr have both represented their native city throughout their careers and throughout their rise in the music industry. In 2016, Lamar received the Key to the City<\/a>. The 28-year-old rapper was born in Compton and attended Centennial High School, where he was a straight-A student.\u00a0He also represented his hometown when he served as the 63rd Grand Marshal of the Compton Christmas Parade the year prior, and the\u00a0California State Senate gave Lamar a Generational Icon Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2015, Dre announced that he was donating<\/a> all of his artist\u00a0royalties earned from\u00a0his third studio album, Compton, to help fund a new performing arts and entertainment facility in his hometown of the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Centennial High School campus on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,32622,134,21233,136],"class_list":["post-657273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dr-dre","tag-entertainment","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}