To Live And Die In Chiraq

Ethan Brown in Playboy (NSFW, probably): When Lil Reese tells you to get out of the car, you exit the vehicle as fast as you can.

The tension began to boil at breakfast when Brandon, a paunchy white kid and perennial sidekick to Chicago's hip-hop elite, promised Reese a free necklace from a jeweler friend in Los Angeles who bills himself as "Your Rapper's Favorite Jeweler." Now, in the backseat of a Chevy Malibu parked on Chicago's South Side, Brandon's generosity has been turned on its head by Reese, a brooding 21-year-old with bushy eyebrows and tattoos that crawl up his arms and onto his neck like lichen on an oak tree. Put simply: If you offer Reese a necklace, he's going to want it now.

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