In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.
The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.
Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house.
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
My family is from Flatbush, but I grew up in Fort Greene-Clinton Hill area.
