Hip-hop was largely pioneered by the demographic that is most likely to die as a result of violence in this country: young Black men. Now that generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”
, also killed during an attempted robbery, in 2020, when he was twenty; and Takeoff, killed last November, in a gambling dispute, at age twenty-eight. In the nineteen-nineties, the violent deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. cemented a pantheon that endures to this day, their images adorning murals, Web sites, and T-shirts, in a kind of Che Guevara-esque cult of the iconically dead.
On a summer night when I was eight or nine, a man was shot dead on the street where my family lived, in Hollis, Queens. He staggered for a few feet and collapsed in front of our house. My parents admonished me and my siblings to stay away from the windows. They recognized immediately that their attempt to insulate the family from that level of violence by moving from Harlem to Queens a decade earlier had failed.
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