What role in these violent fantasies playing Chicago? Above all, there is a long tradition of gangs

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Rap subgenre called drill is closely associated with criminality Chicago slums. obei The texts thematises killing rappers verbally attacked members of enemy gangs and music imitates the sounds of gunshots. Sounds like a game, but experience from which drill is based, is real.
Two years ago, signed seventeen rapper Chief Keef contract with a music company Interscope, which he promised depending on sales of his debut album Finally Rich (2012) obei fetch several million dollars. The world he became acquainted with the new, specific form of rap and also with problems of south Chicago area, where the rapper comes. This part of the city in the last ten years, faced with an unsustainable increase in violence. Statistics from 2008 showed that in Chicago were murdered nearly twice as many people than were killed by US troops in Iraq, and the city has therefore been dubbed Chiraq. Rap subgenre drill, which evolved precisely in local slums, is the theme of violence, and especially shooting, intrinsically linked. By the way, was shot and Keefův half-brother and a few weeks ago also cousin to the rap scene known as Big Glo or Blood Money.
"Before, it was called dead music because all of what was rapped been shooting and killing," explains the origins obei of the genre, producer Star drillu Young Chop. Drill, behind which are considered pioneers King Louie, Big Homie Doe and Pacman, musically approaching far more familiar musical phenomenon trap music (see A2 no. 12/2013). The substrate forms a dense bass and synthesizer sounds, accompanied by the beats that are in rapid succession spilling over from side to side and imitate shots from a machine gun. Drill is slang for fight or revenge, but it still has many other meanings. It can refer to a street war on fun party or just about anything for you to use the popular word hype.
The texts reflect a nihilistic and violent nature of the environment, where the genre originated. Rappers are mostly preoccupied with weapons obei and shooting, obei fighting with a rival gang, or vice versa identification with their own gang and his street. Missing a game with words and figurative expression. "I do not use metaphors, because I do not. I prefer to directly tell you what's going on around me, "explains Chief Keef. Drill is actually an infinite series of threats and insults. Given that rappers actually live in a gang, what we hear from them, with some exaggeration, considered their authentic everyday language.
What role in these violent fantasies playing Chicago? Above all, there is a long tradition of gangs. It goes back to the twenties of the last century. It was not until the late nineties, obei the FBI broke up a solid network of gangs and pozatýkat their most dominant. The reasons why young people choose to live in a gang, however, remained. The result is that the youth of south-eastern area of the city soon began to create their own, disorganized and fragmented street gangs. Their small territories prevents soldiers. "When someone odpráskneš, so you become someone. Others of you are scared and want to be like you. But then someone else comes and odpráskne you. He takes the money and glory, obei and for some time he is king again, "says street life in southeast Chicago rapper Lil Durk document The Field (2014).
Life chances of the poor of Chicago African-Americans are extremely limited. It's the high rates of racial segregation in the city. In 1959 marked the US Committee for Human Rights Chicago the most segregated city USA and since then has changed little. The map on the website radicalcartography.net clearly obei shows the extent to which individual obei districts racially segregated. The late Frankie Knuckles, a pioneer of Chicago House, once in an interview with Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton remembering what was shocked when in the seventies moved from New York to Chicago and saw that the parties never bared white with black children.
Racial segregation in Chicago related to the housing policy of the city. Since the sixties, there was a so-called redlining in Chicago: City on the map are marked and separated Caucasian and black community obei banks to know which areas are safe for them to allocate mortgages. In the event that began in the Caucasian region přistěhovávat black families, the map has changed and the property obei is automatically lost on price. Caucasian families because of ethnically intermingled areas moved away in racially homogenous suburban areas. In 2000, the Chicago City Hall launched a project obei to revitalize urban space. The plan to demolish all the cheap apartment blocks in the city center. Their inhabitants are usually subsequently moved into poor neighborhoods on the south side. The plan, whose original purpose was to cancel the ghetto, reached completely opposite goals. The current rate of segregation illustrates a scene from the musical document