Chicago rapper SoloSam finds new reflections in grief on Principles to Die By

We’ve all felt it at some point during the 19 months and counting of the pandemic: an anguish amplified by loss, even if we’ve been lucky enough that no one close to us has died from the virus or developed long COVID. (If your life since March 2020 has been absolutely untroubled, I have to assume you’re a sociopath, a billionaire, or both.) Even in the Before Times, artists across the pop spectrum were mining trauma to make music that was acutely aware of their vulnerability a