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Music strengthens bonds and closes gaps in style and taste that divide the boroughs.
For a while, the well dried up.
In a year, it went platinum.
An early death is a question mark.
The toll of what was lost is incalculable.
The story always feels unfinished.
None of the outside artists breaks anything.
It just starts to feel too slick after a while.
It makes sense that Pop Smoke would want 50 Cent involved with his debut album.
The uncompromising grit of mixtapes like50 Cent Is the Futurecarried over to the Interscope debut relatively unchanged.
The rapper anointed as the new voice of drill was itching to flex his dynamic range.
Hes figuring himself out, seeing what works.
The main artist feels profoundly missing.
Still, you might hear him in the wobbling bass carried on the balmy New York summer wind.
Itll have to suffice.
