The Boston hip hop artist George Carroll, better known as Slaine was born in Dorchester. He describes his childhood as "normal," but his adolescence was shaped by a tough life in the streets — which gave him plenty of material for his music.

"The Boston Project" is his second album — and an ode to the city that raised him — sometimes with a hard hand.

Slaine,  hip-hop artist and actor

"The Boston Project" release party on Thursday, April 11th at the Middle East in Cambridge