Metropolis Now

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Producer Neil Drumming spends a couple days exploring Detroit, first with a quirky mayoral candidate running an Afrofuturist campaign, and then with a couple of locals. (12 minutes)

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Song:

“Right In” by Bryce Detroit (feat. Coco Butterfli)

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