The drug economy as the neighborhood's other entertainment industry
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text:
[quote|scene] M. runs RJam (demos, leases, loyalty) and the gangs ("retail narcotics") as parallel businesses obeying the same chamber-of-commerce precepts [m-1a:p50-53]; drugs replace segregation as "blame’s new bull’s-eye" [m-1a:p82,:p85]; D. notes rap's own street-level anti-drug disdain — chemicals decried "because they stupefy and disspirit and emasculate before they kill" [d-3a:p7] [e-text]
- IJ echo: IJ's Boston drug economy (Ennet House intake demographics; the Antitois; yrstruly's circuit, scene 040, pp. 128-135) and the Substance logic — the same before-they-kill sequence Ennet House residents narrate.
- Weight: shared-preoccupation