![]() “Somebody would even say, ‘Hey, have you guys eaten? I’m just cooking.’” “I’ll bet you today, if we knocked on every one of these doors going down the street, we would be welcome,” says Lewis. Valerie is happy to play the role of tour guide to fans from all over the world who visit on a daily basis. She and Lewis strike up a conversation as though a day hasn’t passed since the film was made. Valerie Wilson-a resident of Cimarron Street since she was born in 1959-lives next door to the Styles house and acts as a sort of an unofficial, one-person welcoming committee. While not everyone who visits Cimarron Street has a story like Joi’s, everyone who visits has one thing in common: they’ve been deeply affected by Singleton’s timely tale of Black teenage life in South Central Los Angeles. Last November, her only son was shot and killed at the age of 19. since 2003, it’s especially poignant to be standing at the main location from Boyz N the Hood considering some of the film’s sobering subject matter. Joi takes a photo of Jaspanique and Kojo Lewis in front of the Styles houseįor Joi, who’s lived in L.A. “As long as your old man isn’t going to hunt me down from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Lewis jovially responds. Jaspanique asks Lewis if she can take a photo with him. To fans of Boyz N the Hood, the location manager might as well be another star of the film. “To be in the same spot where Ice Cube was, I was like, ‘Oh my god.’” It’s new to me to be on a movie scene,” she says with a sense of awe. “It was one of my favorite childhood movies,” says Jaspanique, who remembers first seeing the film at the age of 11. “I was asking my friends up there, where they sell the shirts, ‘Where did they shoot Boyz N the Hood? I know it’s local,’” says Joi. Joi tells me she was selling Crenshaw T-shirts at nearby Nipsey Hussle Square when she met Jaspanique, a fellow Louisiana native who said she wanted to see the locations from the film. ![]() Joi, 42, and Jaspanique, 26, first met a few minutes before turning on Cimarron Street and rolling up to Furious and Tre Styles’s sky blue, stucco house from John Singleton’s powerhouse 1991 directorial debut. They’re thrilled to hear that they’ve arrived at their destination, and stunned when they learn that Lewis was the location manager on the film. ![]() The windows roll down and the two women inside the car inquire about the houses from Boyz N the Hood. Before I can even pose my first question to Kojo Lewis, a black Ford Mustang pulls up outside the aging, bungalow-style house where we’re meeting.
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