People killing & maiming over loud music seems preposterous & so all the more fascinating as people evolve but not at all. Cities are alive with levels of violence most thought a distant 90s nightmare. Perps, oft discarded since birth are thru gun crime suddenly lifted to a status of human worthy of notice. The act of killing allows them to gain form, they're paid attention to for the first time in their lives. Too bad this hard-won recognition will go uncelebrated. Too bad killers don’t reach for Byron, Baraka, Chuck D. or a thesaurus instead of a firearm as they express their inability to adequately express articulate complex thoughts. Music volume is less celebration than wake-up call, a look-at-me gesture from absurd luxury cars they cannot make payments on. Music as weapon to express their inability to express nuance or tenderness, unavailable except in these precious instants when they in the flash of a gun are able to mean something.
