Baton Rouge, LouisianaThere’s a soundtrack of sorts that can emanate from just about any speaker in a Scotlandville apartment complex. As people move from building to building, while children play on stoops, or as men peer under the car hoods, the bouncing bass flows freely.
In this Baton Rouge, Louisiana neighborhood—not far from where the state’s first land grant college for African Americans was established—that flow makes heads nod, and teases spontaneous vocals from aspiring rapper La'Jerrian Triplett, aka “Nook Dinero.”
As neighborhood buddies cheer, Nook’s freestyling amps him up. The 21-year-old morphs into a headliner emcee, his arms flailing as he stabs the air with a forefinger. Even a verbal stumble or two in his NSFW (Not Suitable For Work) lyricism didn’t stop
