I was made aware of the new 21 Savage album two weekends ago when a midsize Toyota pulled up to a Christmas tree lot pumping “Where You From,” the opening track on “What Happened to the Streets?,” now charting third on the Billboard 200. Grim tune, but hearing it this way flooded my brain with happiness. Instead of mounting an algorithmic ambush in digital space, a marquee rap release had found me by chance in the December cold, where the strange mélange of blue spruce and Camry exhaust smelled far more appealing than chestnuts on an open fire. “Ain’t a corner that we ain’t been,” 21 Savage bragged of his public omnipresence, as if having sent this emissary to the tree lot to flex on Santa himself.
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