From Tupac Shakur to Lil B, rappers have long embraced the make-it-and-move narrative. “I made a little money, then I moved my mama / Yeah straight out the hood,” Rich Homie Quan says in “Water.” In “The Watcher,” Dr. Dre raps, “I moved out the hood for good, you blame me?” And Ice Cube’s “Once Upon a Time in the Projects” is a whole cautionary tale about hanging around the hood. Read more…