I spent some of my happiest years in this neighborhood. I was working my first well-paid job and slowly building a life for myself. It was here that I learned I’d been accepted to graduate school. I had just come out of a painful breakup, and to cope - to escape reality a little - I found myself half in love with a chinese rapper I’d never met. I would walk these streets listening to beijing underground hip hop, feeling carefree and happy again.