And now you have "Chiraq," what people call "Chiraq" -- which is actually -- our murder rate is going down by 213 percent every year.
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Watch our episode of Noisey Chiraq with Savemoney right here.
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"Yeah they call us 'Chiraq,' but that's OK," she tells us.
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It's called Chiraq, I live in Chicago, I'm in the hundreds right now.
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Two years ago, Noisey went to Chicago to make a documentary series called Chiraq.
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In 2000, I did the "Chiraq" remix, and that was the one that went viral.
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Your big breakthrough moment, at least on a national level, was you had this "Chiraq" freestyle.
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Then we'll hear from Chicago sensation Dreezy, who went viral two years ago with her "Chiraq" freestyle.
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Then-President Jacques Chiraq, speaking in 1995 at the Vel D'Hiv, acknowledged complicity and urged the French not to look away.
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Related: Guns, money, death, and the dude — welcome to Chiraq Three officers involved in the shooting have been relieved of their police duties.
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This is how most people were introduced to Dreezy, watching her absolutely demolish the beat to Nicki Minaj and Lil Herb's "Chiraq," in 2014.
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"I was never even supposed to do that 'Brooklyn Chiraq' freestyle — it was one of my boys that encouraged me to do it," she says.
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Amazon, meanwhile, is "approaching the independent film business much like a traditional distributor," a model it followed semi-successfully with its first feature, Spike Lee's Chiraq.
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" Finally, he takes a moment to honor the memory of our dear, departed Robb (with a diss): "I'm in Chiraq coolin', countin' hundreds like Robb who?
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Created by VICE executive producer Andy Capper—the mind behind Noisey Atlanta and Noisey Chiraq—NOISEY is the most original music documentary series on TV today.
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His contribution to Meek Mill's "Chiraq" remix in 133 is one that many people missed and it comes in as a 13 seed in the Jefe region.
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The meteoric rise of Chicago's drill scene at beginning of this decade is what helped burn the nickname Chiraq into the consciousness of rap fans around the globe.
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Director, priest help in their own ways Spike Lee, who tackled the causes and effects of Chicago's growing body count in his extravagant film "Chiraq," calls for federal intervention.
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Lee based a character in "Chiraq" on Pfleger, an activist Catholic priest who has advocated for the underserved population in Chicago's troubled West and South sides since the 1960s.
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In 2014, she gained a following thanks to a clip of her hard-hitting, no-holds-barred freestyle "Brooklyn (Chiraq Freestyle)," which established her as a rapper without a gimmick.
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Still, there remain questionable aesthetic choices—excessive rhyming dialogue à la Spike Lee's Chiraq, for one—which tend to distract from the wonderful performances of Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, and Jaden Smith.
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Tonight, NOISEY returns to Chicago for the first time since the controversial Chiraq documentary to explore the poverty, segregation, political issues, and violence that continue to challenge the residents of the South Side.
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Montana's workmanlike approach has been drawing people in since 2909, but it's really in the last few years, since his remix of Nicki Minaj and Lil Herb's "Chiraq" went viral, that things have taken off.
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Now, we have Noisey Chicago, shot last year in the South Side of city where we revisit some of the characters from Noisey Chiraq to find out what's happened to them since we last met.
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The city's residents had begun grimly referring to it as "Chiraq", a portmanteau of "Chicago" and "Iraq" that caught on after news outlets reported that deaths due to homicide in Chicago were greater than those of special forces in Iraq.
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While many in his age group were channelling road rap through the bouncy one-line flows and pounding Chiraq instrumentals that would eventually become the UK drill scene, Dave went deeper, sharing close-to-heart stories of rampaging inner turmoils.
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Related: Guns, money, death, and the dude — welcome to Chiraq Chicago's police superintendent says video evidence from the fatal officer-involved shooting of an 18-year-old car theft suspect theft last week suggests three cops involved in the incident may have violated departmental policy.
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It's caught the attention of collaborators ranging from Nicki Minaj, whose remix of Herbo's "Chiraq" launched a million imitator freestyles, to Common, who brought Herbo on board for the lead track on his 2014 album Nobody's Smiling and appeared on Herbo's song "Fight or Flight" alongside Chance the Rapper.
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In the city that some call "Chiraq" because of the wanton violence, death and mayhem, I believe that martial law would work because most of the young men who shoot at each other and kill innocent bystanders each day would never squeeze off a shot against well-armed members of the armed forces.
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Chiraq is an 8-part documentary for Vice's music channel Noisey on the social and cultural forces behind the rise of the Chicago rapper Chief Keef, created by Capper after trips to the city for VICE on the HBO network.
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In 2012, he released the song "Knicks Anthem" and the mixtape Th3 #Post90s. In 2013, he released the song "Dear Kendrick" in response to Kendrick Lamar's verse in the song Control by Big Sean. The music video for his single "Chiraq" garnered media attention over the eccentric visuals. In 2015, Shumpert's wife, Teyana Taylor, gave birth to their daughter Iman Tayla (Junie).
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Chief Keef is often seen as a representation of the "Chiraq" gangsta rap culture that is present in Chicago. He often refers to himself as "Sosa" as do his peers and the media. The nickname "Sosa" is a reference to Alejandro Sosa, the drug kingpin in the movie Scarface. LA Weekly reported that Chief Keef's Glo Gang entourage respects the rapper.
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When she began seriously focusing on music as an adult, she self-funded a recording studio with local record producers while working at Shake Shack and T.J. Maxx. In 2014, she gained notoriety when a Facebook post criticized her song "Brooklyn Chiraq", a freestyle to Nicki Minaj and G Herbo "ChiRaq"; the song then went viral. The post's author, pundit Boyce Watkins, said the song promoted "violent, negative, genocidal energy", but the controversy expanded Young M.A's name recognition and brought new listeners to her work. In 2015, Young M.A released a new song, "Body Bag", which became a "YouTube hit", said Rolling Stone, along with the release of her mixtape called Sleep Walkin, which MTV described as a "thoughtful debut project". In 2016, Young M.A released her official debut single, "Ooouuu", which peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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In April 2014, she released her remix of YMCMB rapper Nicki Minaj and Lil Herb's "Chiraq" and received general attention, with many fans claiming that it was better than Minaj's version."Dreezy Is the Crown Princess of Chicago Rap". Tara Mahadevan The remix later garnered her attention and landed her a collaboration with rapper Common on his tenth studio album Nobody's Smiling. In 2014 was named as the "Princess of Chicago Rap" by Noisey via Vice Magazine.
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Welcome to Fazoland was met with broad critical acclaim, with Fader commenting that, "since drill rose to prominence a few years ago, lyrical bankruptcy has remained one of its most common critiques; Herb's way with words defies the stereotype." In April 2014, Herbo collaborated with East Coast rapper Nicki Minaj on "Chiraq". He contributed to Common's "The Neighborhood" on his album, Nobody's Smiling. Herb was selected for XXLs Show & Prove segment of the 2014 Freshman Class issue.
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Capper was the Executive Producer and Director of the show award-winning Noisey, and a two- season series on the VICELAND TV network which featured artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Big Sean, Danny Brown, Diplo, Chief Keef, Common and others. Capper has directed several promo videos for artists like Snoop Dogg, ASAP Rocky, Vybz Kartel, Fucked Up, Black Lips, Parquet Courts, Turbonegro, Popcaan, Beenie Man and Tifa, as well as creating and producing the Noisey.com franchises Noisey Chiraq, Noisey Jamaica and Noisey Raps. Capper also worked with Jonathan Glazer and J Spaceman of Spiritualized on an installation for The Creators Project at the Coachella Festival which centred on the Spiritualized song "Ladies & Gentleman, We Are Floating In Space".
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After completing his Ph.D. Johnson worked as a USC Visions and Voices postdoctoral fellow in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Johnson then spent four years as an assistant professor of communication studies at San Francisco State University before becoming the director of African American and African Diaspora Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His academic research examines poetry communities in Los Angeles, contrasting their democratic possibilities against the experience of struggle and privilege. In 2017 Rutgers University Press published his book Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities, and in 2018 he co-edited the poetry collection End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape, which was published by Northwestern University Press.
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