Yesterday electronic wunderkind Nicolas Jaar debuted "Ghetto," an exultant eight-minute house track featuring vocals from Chicago ghetto house and juke producer Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ Slugo. Kendricks, who cut his teeth with influential ghetto-house label Dance Mania, drew upon his experience growing up in the Robert Taylor Homes for his contribution: it's a plainspoken, emotionally resonant spoken-word piece about watching addicts shoot up, gang wars, and neighborhood blight.…
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