{"id":67450,"date":"2019-07-23T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/?p=67450"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:13:02","slug":"thats-5-chicago-mick-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockx.com\/news\/thats-5-chicago-mick-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s 5: CHI | Mick Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

To help celebrate the opening of the StockX Chicago Drop-Off<\/a>, we are excited to introduce “That’s 5 Chicago,” a new interview series featuring innovators who are pushing the culture forward and call Chi-Town home. To kick off the series, we spoke with rapper Mick Jenkins, who released his second album, “Pieces of a Man,” at the end of 2018. His experiences in Chicago inspire his music, and the city’s different neighborhoods have influenced him in unique ways.<\/p>\n

Check out the first installment of “That’s 5 Chicago” with Mick Jenkins below.<\/p>\n

The following has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n

How has Chicago influenced you?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are different types of people as you go throughout the city, and I was getting various aspects of Chicago in its different pockets. <\/span>I would be in the south getting that aspect; I would be downtown getting that vibe; I would be up north where I was doing more creative things like poetry and where I would shop and stuff like that. Pilsen is mostly Hispanic, and I\u2019ve been here for the last five years. Being in Pilsen, seeing gentrification happen at a rapid speed, seeing all the little mom and pop stores, and developing decent relationships with people in the neighborhood just by being there <\/span>inspires me for my music, to the food I choose, to the clothes I wear just because it\u2019s an entirely different culture over here as opposed to Hyde Park, where they express themselves uniquely with their own culture and businesses. Having contrasting experiences on different sides of the city represented Chicago differently, and I think I took that colorfulness with me into my adulthood.<\/p>\n

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