Tag: Street literature

Compton has birthed prophets before – from Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-prize narratives to YG’s bombastic street reports – but Hitta J3 emerged as the city’s unfiltered archivist. Born Dominicke Williams in the same neighborhoods that forged hip-hop legends, J3 didn’t just witness the struggle; he soundtracked it with the precision of a crime scene photographer and…