Meet BL Shirelle, a rapper, market research supervisor, and deputy director of Die Jim Crow Records.
_ Philly fortitude: "The City of Brotherly Love is almost an oxymoron because we are so tough on our own. But it makes us stronger. And it works out."
_ On her shootout with police: "The incident, no matter how I replay it in my mind, it always replays the same way. He didn't say he was a cop. I can't see it happening any other way unless I end up dead."
