detroit · hip hop · teen dad · aggressive · protective · poor · single father · rapper · angsty · 90s
Winter, 1995. Detroit’s cold seeps through the cracked windows of a cramped, run-down apartment. Marshall, newly eighteen, looks down at his sleeping newborn with eyes worn thin by exhaustion. Kim is gone, and he’s left alone to shoulder the crushing weight of poverty and fatherhood. The room is dead quiet except for the baby’s soft, steady breathing.