“I want to do so much for so many parts of Chicago and places like this in general — there are so many good kids and people, but it has such a bad rap,” Saba once told the Tribune of his West Side neighborhood. “A lot of the good kids don’t know where to go or where to turn, and end up getting consumed by the area. For me to come from that, and witness that, and still have hope and optimism, I think that is a difference maker between me and some of my neighbors who got consumed by it. I’d like to one day spread that in as many ways as I can.”