Chicago Strip Clubs: Naledge Speaks On His Homecoming Album, Chicago

He added, ”Any emotional feeling you can have on the spectrum of life is on this album. You’re happy, you’re sad, you’re with your girl [and] falling in love with your girl, you just broke up with your girl, you’re at the strip club…you just lost a loved one…wherever you’re at in life…this is the soundtrack of the vibe that the perspective of a Chicagoan is giving. It still has a very ‘every-man’s’ feel to it. It’s not like exclusionary, I’m just going out of my way to be unapologetically my city. I’m going out of my way to do that because…we’ve heard where other people rap about where they’re from locally and turn that into a global brand. Like, everybody talks about [Long Beach, California] as if it’s some huge city, when [in reality], it’s…the suburb of a city. Everybody talks about Queensbridge like it’s the holy grail, and you go there, and it’s like, yeah, theses places are unique, but they’re no more unique than the place that I come from, so this is just my statement in saying that I represent Chicago.”

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