The Authentic Eclectic

Is Rap a Backing Track To Murder?

A Reasoning Born From Personal Experience

Joe Treetop
6 min readMay 2, 2022

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Gunshots echoed through a modern seaside development in central Stockholm. The blood coating the bitter pavement belongs to Einár, 19, one of Sweden’s most popular rappers. Now, merely another tragic addition to the rise in fatal shootings that have plagued the small

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Joe Treetop

Essayist on the peculiar and delightfully absurd aspects of life, guilty of wielding satire | Culture needs dissecting, and I have just the sharpie!