Construction has officially begun on Compton High School's new $200 million campus.
"I was an artistic kid in school with no outlet for it," he said at the ceremony. "I knew I had something special to offer to the world, but with nothing to support my gift, schools left me feeling unseen."
"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," he added.
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