Dr. Dre helps in making a new campus of Compton High School with a huge donation.
Dr. Dre has contributed $10 million to Compton High School to aid with the construction of a new campus worth $200 million. As a result, the school’s new performing arts facility will be known as the “Andre ‘Dr. Dre’ Young Performing Arts Center.”
“I was an artistic kid in school with no outlet for it,” he said at Saturday’s groundbreaking ceremony. “I knew I had something special to offer to the world, but with nothing to support my gift, schools left me feeling unseen.”
“My goal is to provide kids with the kind of tools and learning they deserve,” Dr. Dre said in a statement. “The performing arts center will be a place for young people to be creative in a way that will help further their education and positively define their future.”
Dre’s gift to the new Compton High School comes after he vowed to contribute all proceeds from his final album, Compton, to a new performing arts and entertainment venue in the area a few years ago. During an interview with Zane Lowe of Beats 1 radio, the musician/mogul revealed his idea, stating that he was working with Compton Mayor Aja Brown.
“I’ve been really trying to do something special for Compton and just couldn’t quite figure out what it was,” Dre said at the time. “She actually had this idea and she was already in the process of working on it. I said, ‘Boom, this is what we should do.'”
Dre went to Centennial High School and Fremont High School before dropping out. During his address, he discussed how things would have turned out differently for him if he had greater resources.
“I’ve always wondered how much further ahead I might have been had the resources I needed in school were available,” he said at the ceremony. “If I had learned more about the business industry, I would have saved myself [an] extreme amount of time, money and most importantly, [made] a lot of friendships.”
In 2025, the new facility is anticipated to open. Dre recently collaborated with Jimmy Iovine to develop a magnet public school in South L.A. and donated $70 million to USC to establish a new academy, in addition to giving to the high school.
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