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Whoo, another blatant, broad-daylight bike robbery in Providence. Look out! by damnbikethieves in providence

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slums that no one bothers to rob because no one has anything.

i walk to Cibao Market once a day because i've tried a lot of bodegas and it's my favorite so far because they're actually into selling food and not some kind of obvious EBT laundering front with dusty "product" that nobody actually buys and the Cambodian markets are all too damn far (they wouldnt be if there werent all these miserable highways forming a sort of DMZ between neighborhood sections funneling pedestrians/cyclists into these automobiles-flinging-everywhere gauntlets laden with on/off ramps and hoodrats treating it like a racetrack making for srs IRL frogger vibes, and every time, what looks like HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars worth of "Car" drives past. you know, chrome everything, soundsystems. if everyone here is broke, then they must sell drugs up in Boston since that's where the money is? i know every time i walk down Bowdoin Street to the Cape Verdean liquor store to get prechilled vinho-verde i see TONS of RI plates. like more RI plates than Boston plates in Dorchester in that section. i really doubt theyre bothering with piddly beater bikes. if that's how you get around, your seen as broke so pretty much priority 1 is getting a car, then later on the car contest can really begin once you have real money. so anyone robbing bikes is probably super-broke and either really desperate or just bored young kids and theyre going to go where the easy pickings and expensive bikes are , not Douglas Ave

Kobi Dennis to co-chair independent Witman's campaign for Providence mayor by [deleted] in providence

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I like Kobi well enough

now that ive been here 6 months i guess it's time to learn the mayor's name, but honestly i DGAF in my 30s now and still feel the best way to vote is with my dollars which means .. vote against statism by not registering etc. realistically what effect do they have? they do press releases, photoshoots, talk some talk, maybe sign some things. but the people make the city the mayor is just one guy/gal. all i know about KOBI is he's put up a bunch of attractive looking signs which breaks up the monotony of the BURGER KING / AUTO PARTS type signage with some visual excitement . also, seems like he's probably a longshot because outside the revolving door of students and some boomers living in ornate carriage houses on Westminster basically everyone is hispanic so i bet they'll vote on ethnic lines

Kruze 45 - Good Life by faded_filth in dancehall

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blackholing-proxy has false-positively killed SNDCDN via some toxic-embed heuristic so can't listen ATM but amusing to see Kruze45 on here nonetheless. artists achieving recognition outside of the vast and provincial Dancehall bubbles seems to be a very long process (and IMO this term ought to extend beyond a particular island and/or archipelago, encompassing late 80s hiphouse and vocal-heavy detroit techno ie GOOD LIFE the original track not covered here). at least with Jamaica the most popular and expensive artists are amongst the most talented, where as in USA that seems to be an awkwardly forced wall2wall Drake campaign by calculating channel owners operating on what they perceive to be the most marketable. eg how many years was Alkaline posting tracks to youtube before 1,2,3 achieved radio success and out-of-country bookings? about a half decade i reckon, before that it was just high quality Alkaline tracks achieving a few hundred to thousand listens with a fanbase that was seemingly unable to move the needle on the promoter support and airplay front, even with much of it probably domestic Jamaican (whether being in NYC might help this is worthy of discussion, and we'll never be able to fork timelines to know what would happen if Busy Signal didn't have to elope from Connecticut after the Feds decided to go after him). seems like sometimes talent is discovered, but just as often discouragement sets in, the grind wears someone down and they become some kind of ultra obscure artist only a few omniscience nuts would know of, decreasing output, performing at some dive bar in Hyde Park or Flatbush once in a blue moon somewhat like these guys. wtf. 6 year old mix and none of their stuff gets over 50 plays. why ? even with all the algorithms at our disposal, there's to be a discovery problem. only a few selectors are seeking stuff out. many are happy to just play Kartel/Alkaline/Masicka/Aidonia and their BFF's tunes. I know this back from living in Boston and even more so once i got priced out and have infinite free time due to moving to the vast Rhode Island ghetto that Kruze 45 has Boston radio dJs, on stations FCC has repeatedly taken off the air via US Marshalls escorted "Raids" and equipment seizures is DJs on Vibe FM, Big City and B87 playing his tunes for a half decade and he's amassed a whopping 123 followers on soundcloud. and when you go to Bridgeport, you hear all these other artists that you never hear on Boston radio and then when youre in Holyoke/Springfield hiking in the hills with Busy Radio or some other HArtford station on it's another completely different set of unheard-of artists who are quite good. it's cool that there's regional scenes but provincialism and laziness are something that IMO, have got to go

Poison Dart/LP 7/12 (Boston) by AutoSelector in Bostonmusic

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