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Bro Chicago's Drill scene isn't like any other movement we've ever seen and I know you already know that. We never seen gang banging 15 & 16 year old's killing and dying on some real street sh1t. Chicago started the low budget videos with the whole squad in the living room and in front of the buildings pointing guns, smoking weed and throwing gang signs at the camera. They were dissing dead homies by name and openly rapping about active cases. This wasn't some financed effort to get some gang-bangers on record. After Keef blew up Drill took off when the spotlight was on Chicago and rappers been getting killed and locked up for murder over and over again since 2011. Check the list of rappers either dead or locked up for shootings from 051/STL-EBT/O'Block/600/Tyquan World/TYMB/THF etc. etc. and that's just a few blocks in Woodlawn.
We haven't ever seen rappers go back and forth on popular songs over who caught a head shot and got found face down on what block after who set them up cause of what diss and then interviews get people killed and the interviewers get a greenlight put on 'em. Banging on Wax or any other gansgter rap is entirely different then what Chicago's got going on. Drill influenced the industry heavy though and now everyone is gonna catch them opps lackin and walk up on you with the 50 shot etc. etc.
Obviously your younger than me. All of that is nothing new except SOCIAL MEDIA. . Guys BEEN doing those type of low budget rap videos, weed smoking, etc back in the 90s & 00s before Keef blew up & became the face of something he nor his click coined. Bangers back then did the same and some cases more subliminal with it. Think about all the rappers then that didn't make it to this present. Drill have influence during it's primetime and others are using the same lingo but other regions don't use it.
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Drill rappers have it easier to get publicized with social media now. Most of them got their fame off Youtube. LA gangster rappers didn't have Youtube to post videos for the world to see. And they didn't have that social media beef it was strictly in the streets.
LA was on another level back in the day. LA County peaked at 2,589 homicides. Cook County never came close to that. All of the Chicago metropolitan area never came close to that.
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What is going on in DC seriously, a few years back it had 82 for the whole year...
Part of the problem with DC is, unlike a lot of cities, they aren't really trying to get to the root of what's causing the crime spike. The assumption seems to be to just keeping pushing people out and that'll fix the issue but it's only exacerbating the problems.
Drill rappers have it easier to get publicized with social media now. Most of them got their fame off Youtube. LA gangster rappers didn't have Youtube to post videos for the world to see. And they didn't have that social media beef it was strictly in the streets.
LA was on another level back in the day. LA County peaked at 2,589 homicides. Cook County never came close to that. All of the Chicago metropolitan area never came close to that.
Indeed but that was the crack era as well; Chicago never truly had a crack epidemic like New York, LA, DC.
A key difference between Chicago drill and LA gangsta rap in the 90s is the former is a whole lot "animated" regarding who they are dissing and a lot of gun pointing at the camera. The more underground the rapper, the more gritty the lyrics and videos. When you look at LA Crips and Blood rappers of today, you don't really see the gun totting and dissing other sets is virtually nonexistent. It has to due with being a gang member in the public in LA has become nearly illegal, but also partly because LA gangsters just seem more chill(although in reality there are a lot of intergang beefs between Crips and Bloods) and "mature", so to say. It's like Chicago and LA have switched places as far as which city has the more wild gangs.
Part of the problem with DC is, unlike a lot of cities, they aren't really trying to get to the root of what's causing the crime spike. The assumption seems to be to just keeping pushing people out and that'll fix the issue but it's only exacerbating the problems.
Something I found shocking about DC. I know a lot of people who live there (younger), most come from small towns in the midwest and DC is their first "big" city experience and most I talk to have (or had) zero idea of the crime problems and cost of living problems plaguing so much of the city.
I find it odd and out of touch that people would not realize the issues going on in their own city, whether you care or deny is one thing, but to be totally clueless about the dark history of crime, poverty, drugs and race relations is sort of an incompetent citizen to me...
Almost everyone I know in Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, San Fran and some other cities are well aware of the crime, drug, poverty, homelessness issues, some care some don't, but something is off with DC...
Something I found shocking about DC. I know a lot of people who live there (younger), most come from small towns in the midwest and DC is their first "big" city experience and most I talk to have (or had) zero idea of the crime problems and cost of living problems plaguing so much of the city.
I find it odd and out of touch that people would not realize the issues going on in their own city, whether you care or deny is one thing, but to be totally clueless about the dark history of crime, poverty, drugs and race relations is sort of an incompetent citizen to me...
Almost everyone I know in Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, San Fran and some other cities are well aware of the crime, drug, poverty, homelessness issues, some care some don't, but something is off with DC...
DC's "solution" is simply trying to gentrify the crime out ex. being Navy Yards
Once you go east across the river it's a completely different world. South East is pretty much a forgotten wasteland compared to the urban core, hell I wouldn't be surprised if most of the new transplant residents have even been east of the Anacostia River... and DC would like to keep it that way.
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