a successful effort to debauch the faux drug dealing lifestyles that hip-hop portrays, Malice from Clipse, revealed in a video log the true nature of his life. He makes a clear statement:
"I am and have been part of the problem...I need foolishness in my Hip-Hop. I need foolishness in my movies, I happen to like that. A movie is not good unless you got some bricks getting moved or people getting killed. When I get in that booth and start recording I can drive as many Bentleys as I want. But you gotta learn to separate the real from the fake…So when the music stops, along with all the dealing and killing, what good is it if you’re not around to enjoy your success? When the spotlight ends and the industry hoopla is over with, I just want to show you how my life is really like"
Malice goes on to reveal that he indeed does not drive a Bentley, or a G5, or any luxury vehicle of that sort. In fact, there is only one vehicle in his driveway and it is a four door truck. He even elaborates that there aren’t even rims on the tires. He clarifies that there is selling crack has no future, and that even in the unlikely event that a dealer does become prosperous, he stands a great chance of getting murdered.
Malice isn’t the only one reporting the reality of crack dealing. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, a professor of sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University decided to collect data from a crack dealing neighborhood back in 1989. Breaking free from his conventional work environment, Venkatesh risked his life to book-keep for an African American gang in downtown Chicago. Crack-cocaine is usually sold in deviant communities where gangs thrive, often in the housing projects of inner city neighborhoods. Cutting edge economic data was the initial reason Venkatesh opted do to the job in the first place, but the thrill is what kept him around.
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