Brooklynati

This indie hip-hop group has been lauded as a flamekeeper for a certain time in the early 1990s when the Native Tongues held down New York.

For its second full-length album, Tanya Morgan created a fictional city combining its members’ respective homes in Brooklyn and Cincinnati, but the group’s real home is in the grooves of hip-hop and the universe of black music that created it, a sonic wonderland that renders geography simultaneously crucial and…