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One party slips and the other one pounces.
Rage too hard and it sparks noise complaints or violent incidents that beget harsh crackdowns.
Its impossible to tell the story of developments in culture without detailing the undergirding infrastructural elements that inspiredthem.
The Brooklyn scene cooled as high-rises sprung up on the waterfront, displacing DIY venues and running up rent.
Its a problem were still dealing with.The city didnt fall; it was pushed.
His quality-of-life campaign and broken-windows policies produced results at the cost of too many arrests and too much regulation.
Bloomberg edged out a victory and quickly set about expanding on the policies of his predecessor.
He toyed with repealing the cabaret law for years, but it stayed on the books until 2017.
His opposition to raising the minimum wage kept the poor in their place as the city got ritzier.
It also actively pursued already famous rappers with a diligence that persists to this day.
Years later, wed learn that the FBI trailed the Wu-Tang Clan from 1999 to 2004.
No drugs ever surfaced; Shmurda is wrapping up a seven-year term on gun and conspiracy charges.
(Webster Hall has since loosened up on the dress code.
concert, it got significantly harder to book rap shows in the city.
It wouldve been the latters biggest hometown event; he waslater murdered in February 2020on the opposite coast.
Unfortunately, NYPD wouldnt let me perform, he said on Instagram.
This history is no close-kept secret.Its all in the music.
Bloomberg banned cigarettes, Saigon says in Preacher.
Why he aint ban letting police man beat on n - - - - - yet?
This wasnt posturing or simple iconoclasm.
