"What if you threw a party and everybody came" by Very Small Array
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A hip-hop star grows in Brooklyn (and the Bronx and Staten Island too)
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Claire Lambrecht is a contributing editor for SmartPlanet.
Claire Lambrecht
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Claire Lambrecht is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has written for the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Guernica and CBS MoneyWatch. Previously, she served as a Fulbright ETA and Teach For America corps member. She holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Hawaii and is pursuing another from New York University.
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If hipsters needed yet another reason to justify moving to Brooklyn, this infographic might do the trick.
By collating the birthplaces of some of the biggest names in hip-hop, Very Small Array offers a portrait of the mean streets that helped New York City earn the chorus, “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of / There’s nothing you can’t do.”
While not the first multimedia effort to encompass the verbal dexterity of the New York area (Rap Genius put out a “Rap Map” detailing geographic locations mentioned in hit lyrics and Forbes put out a map detailing hip hop’s “cash kingdoms“), this version may be the first you’d like to hang up on the wall.
[Very Small Array]