The eyes of the country have been trained on our city since last Tuesday, when the Chicago Police Department’s news office released the video of officer Jason Van Dyke unloading 16 shots into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Since then I’ve heard few people capture the feeling in the air as well as Harvey rapper Ty Money does on “United Center.” Released last Wednesday, his track burns through the history of the systemic injustices that have devastated minority neighborhoods in the city and made Chicago’s streets a bleak place for the young black kids who call them home.
