Only one train goes to Canarsie. Private houses with driveways and backyards line most blocks in the remote Brooklyn neighborhood, nestled in the southeast corner of the borough, overlooking the waters of Jamaica Bay.
In the early 1970s, the cultural interactions between African Americans and immigrants from the Caribbean in the melting pot of New York City helped to spawn the musical movement now known as hip hop.
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The late artist Pop Smoke won the Top Billboard 200 Album award for his album
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards Sunday (May 23). His mother, Audrey Jackson, was on hand to accept the honor. I thank you to the fans for honoring the life and spirit of my son, so much that he continues to manifest as if he were still here in the flesh, she said of the rapper, who was killed in a February 2020 home invasion at age 20. He created music for the kid who has to sleep four in a room, the kid who has to figure out how to get to school each day so he can graduate and make his mom proud. He did this so that 14-year-olds would not have to kill to prove they are somebody.