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Murder City USA: St Louis's Record Breaking Murder Rate

The Underworld Podcast

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It's No Longer Big Gangs, Right?

Ice Cube used to rap about coming from LA to St. Louis and selling dope there in the 80s. "It's real out there, you know, the North especially has sets like everywhere," he says. The gangs are no longer organized that control big territories with rules; it's much smaller sets of drug dealers. That leads to more violence because there's less regulation, right?

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