listen to local Drill rappers like Lil Durk and Chief Keef to hear and experience the effects of the rampant violence tarnishing the city's reputation. We all know

ent requires everyone to continuously assert their masculinity or there's no chance of earning your colleagues' respect. Durk uses a couple common rap techniques to accent the personal portrayal of Chicago like name-dropping his friends and crew members - a few of whom are either dead or in jail. Referencing one's friends and loved ones in songs isn't unique, but nonetheless the frequent mentions to the people in his life immerses us further into it. On "Ten Four," he uses another common rap technique putting in audio of police radio activity to let the city further envelop, or engulf, us. Along with these first few tracks, "Don't Know Me" also paints a compelling picture of the politics within Chicago's crew hierarchy and the fatalistic nature of Durk's existence. He dispenses advice for dealing with this type of life like "hide your finesse game," and "eat with who you sleep with." The best line in the song, "Murder rates so high cause of the body count," is an obvious statement, but powerful because of its naivete. He simplifies the whole situation that we on the outside find so disturbing and incomprehensible on a certain level. "Every day newscasts say a body found," reiterates the commonplace violence Durk and his crews face everyday. We see these n