FOR A SECOND, LET me talk about Brooklyn. The Brooklyn drill scene is contradictory, just like Brooklyn is. Equal parts insular and loud. Earnest and darkly comedic. Full of laughter, life and deep pain from losing your neighborhood and being alone in a changing community, all while still losing friends to gun violence.
Brooklyn is changing. In gentrified neighborhoods, robbery and murders have made way for expensive rents. The music, like it did in Chicago, reflects the pain of the people of the