“Rap is in a transitional phase. Forty-odd years in, its founders are retired, dying or dead and the kids, with their face tattoos and neon hair, are trashing the wake. It’s a strange time to be a hip-hop fan and even stranger time to be a rapper, in the proper old school meaning of the word. Imagine then how strange it must be to be SHIRT, the New York MC almost ten years into his career and relea”