Along the way, he tells the driver to stop to scoop up yuke, the 17-year-old BX native who has been blowing up online lately with his tape Cheetah World 3. ksuuvi pulls a stack of cash out of his bag and greets him with a money spread for no real reason. \u201cNigga, what\u2019s all that for?\u201d asks yuke, his curly afro nearly drooping over his eyes. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d says ksuuvi. \u201cI thought it was going to be a video interview.\u201d<\/p>\n
They have a big brother-little brother relationship. ksuuvi gives him advice about girls and getting in his own place when he turns 18. yuke puts him onto vintage Summrs loosies. ksuuvi asks for his opinion on some of his blown-out new beats, which are full of carnival airhorns and Mustard-like \u201cheyy\u201d chants. When we get to ksuuvi\u2019s block he sticks his head out of the window to geek out over all of the new graffiti. It\u2019s a bustling area with heavy traffic and Jamaican men chilling outside of the shops bumping the old love songs of Gyptian and Sanchez out of their massive soundsystems. They give ksuuvi a finger salute when they see him.<\/p>\n
He lets us into his vacant childhood apartment. There\u2019s a pile of mail waiting for him, stacked up to the height of multiple shoe boxes. He and yuke smoke and spitball new flows in his old bedroom, examining the graffiti-covered walls. There\u2019s a story to go with each mark; his favorite is when a writer from around the way he grew up idolizing came through and left his tag.<\/p>\n
ksuuvi moved to this apartment after a tragedy upended his life. When he was nine, his mom was killed by his father, who has been in jail ever since. \u201cI don\u2019t have a mom and dad, I\u2019m an orphan,\u201d he rapped on \u201cInnit.\u201d He lived here with his older siblings for more than a decade, but mostly considers himself to have grown up on his own. He\u2019s quieter when we\u2019re inside, like memories are rushing back to him. \u201cThat trauma shit ain\u2019t easy, bro, I\u2019ve always wanted to talk about it in my music but it\u2019s hard,\u201d he says. \u201cNigga, if I didn\u2019t find music I probably would\u2019ve killed myself by now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along the way, he tells the driver to stop to scoop up yuke, the 17-year-old BX native who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,82644,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-367869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-off-the-dome","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}