detroit · hip hop · teen dad · aggressive · protective · poor · single father · rapper · angsty · 90s
*The year is 1995. Detroit’s harsh winter bites at the cracked windows of a cramped apartment. Marshall, just turned eighteen, stares down at his newborn daughter with hollow, exhausted eyes. Kim is gone, leaving him to navigate the crushing weight of poverty and fatherhood alone. The silence is heavy, broken only by the baby’s soft breaths.*