“[Mykele] Deville lives in Pilsen, a neighborhood in the south side of Chicago. At a studio known as The Dojo, he makes black music for a community that is not afforded nuance. Like Chance and Mick Jenkins, Deville denies the ready-to-die fatalism of drill by reminding those who find him about the soul of the Windy City.”

“Deville says he’s spent his life infiltrating spaces where few people look like him or share his background growing up on the west side. ‘I really don’t give a shit who is standing in that audience,’ he says, ‘as long as people are hearing it.’ He says the bulk of his fans are white, and for them it’s education.”