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The donors are often a who’s who of local corporate elites, often with business before the city.

There was no NFL team in Los Angeles at the time, and Carroll’s sidelines were always a who’s who of the entertainment industry.

While Mexican crime lords do wield their own militias which occasionally engage the armed forces in open combat – sometimes even wearing their own uniforms and insignia – for the most part they’re more like insurgents than regular armies, deeply embedded in local communities, where it’s not always obvious who’s who.

Roy Ayers, the “King of Neo Soul” who was born and raised on Vernon Avenue just south of downtown Los Angeles and saw more than 60 of his songs sampled by a who’s who of hip-hop and soul artists, died Wednesday in New York.

The show featured nearly two dozen artists, a veritable who’s who of new L.A.street rappers, including Lefty Gunplay and Dody6, whose names are buzzing after cameos on Kendrick Lamar’s “gnx.”