Video: Yungeen Ace – Murder Rate Rising

With a fiery intensity and a natural sense of melody, Jacksonville’s Yungeen Ace doesn’t make music for the faint-hearted. Drum Dummie’s production on “Murder Rate Rising” lends the track a swinging bombast while, in the video, Ace mobs through the streets of Jacksonville with fellow rising rapper Jay Da Youngan as the police investigate a homicide. After a string of songs and videos that illustrate the tragedy wrought by street life, including in his recent video, “2X Screamin’,” Yungeen Ace demonstrates the allure of a life of crime to young people who haven’t yet felt the consequences. “Murder Rate Rising” the latest highlight from Ace’s most recent mixtape, Life I’m Livin which dropped in December.