Send us a text The conversation opens with a content warning and a quick, raw intro that sets an honest tone for what follows: a life told without polish. Sy Yola traces his roots to Kensington and Allegheny, one of the roughest corners of Philadelphia, and explains how his earliest influences weren’t celebrities but brothers and old heads who set standards, protected him, and showed him what “thorough” meant before he could articulate it. Those neighborhood lessons formed a code that outlast...