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T here it is,” Megan Moroney says, looking out of the tour bus window while slipping on white cowboy boots and a camo hoodie. “The promised land!” The sun is setting over endless rows of gas pumps on a windy January night in Crossville, Tennessee. Six massive fluorescent ­letters and …

One afternoon, Shyniece Thomas, known professionally as the rapper Lola Brooke, was in her Brooklyn apartment contemplating the pitfalls of being a rapper. “Sometimes you don’t feel safe — in your own hometown — all because of your occupation,” she says. “I was just pouring my heart out about how …