Blue Chips: Rome Streetz The New York rapper has created vivid, narratively rich street raps for years. Now he’s working with revered Cypress Hill producer DJ Muggs
Max Bell | May 26, 2021 - 11:00 am
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Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that doubles as a scouting report. Each month, SPIN selects a rapper (or group of rappers) who could be Rookie of the Year candidates turned Hall-of-Famers or forgettable flashes in the pan.
Only the passing seasons (and the number of streams) will tell. To read previous columns,
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Griselda Records rappers have dominated the conversation surrounding New York’s street rap renaissance for the last five years. Individual and consolidated talent, the Shady Records affiliation, album packaging, musical glut, onomatopoeic gun noises there are reasons for their prominence. But their shadow often obscures New York rappers equally gifted at delivering grimy vignettes in slick, simi
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NYPD Enlists Volunteers For Citywide Graffiti Cleanup Initiative
CBS New York 57 mins ago Syndicated Local – CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) The NYPD hit the streets Saturday to kick off a new campaign to combat a big rise in graffiti.
The cleanup involves off-duty officers, volunteers and a lot of paint.
Getting the big job rolling was NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, taking what was a graffiti-covered supermarket building in Bushwick from marred and marked up to bright and bare.
Among the volunteer painters were officers, participating on their own time, and very young helpers.
“The best thing is all the little kids picking up the brushes, community members, businesses donating and interspersed with the men and women of the police department,” Shea said.
Every NYC borough has a Main Street and a Broadway.
In Manhattan, Broadway runs north from Bowling Green and, under a variety of names, runs north in NY State almost all the way to the Canadian border. Other than a few other aboriginal roads such as the Bowery and St. Nicholas Ave., it’s one of the few roads that predated the colonial era that’s still in use on Manhattan Island; it was used by the Lenape Indians before the Dutch arrived, and was probably in use by the buffalo before the Native-Americans arrived. It is “broad” in a physical sense only when you get north of Columbus Circle it’s of average width south of that, and called Broadway (Brede-weg) because it was wide in comparison to the narrow cart paths of New Amsterdam that were laid out when the area was first colonized in the 1620s. In the 2000s, traffic engineers have rendered Broadway as no longer a completely uninterrupted road, and it’s a pedestrian plaza for parts of Times Square and Herald Square.