If you’ve lived in New York long enough, you become inured to the very idea of randomness. No day is complete without a subway encounter between two loudly aggressive strangers that would be frightening if you hadn’t seen thousands of identical standoffs across generations. However, even having earned those bulletproof layers over many years, there’s a level of randomness that — even in New York, even to a New Yorker —will occasionally beg the question, “What the fuck, why?!” I recently found my curiosity threshold when two weeks ago, the Atlanta rap star Gunna announced he’d be hosting a 5K run around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on an early Wednesday evening in September. I couldn’t figure out what would bring a Georgia-bred melodic rap genius to my literal backyard, the 526 acres of green

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