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Man I got like 10-15 and it changes i never have it fixed
Like starlito,kurupt, Sadat x, messy marv,drakeo the ruler, Sean Price,P.E.A.C.E. from freestyle fellowship, Ka,bandgang Lonnie bands,Zuse
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Like starlito,kurupt, Sadat x, messy marv,drakeo the ruler, Sean Price,P.E.A.C.E. from freestyle fellowship, Ka,bandgang Lonnie bands,Zuse
I reckon I could do it easily, I'm quite quick. I reckon your very slow. Plus I know the area.
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Sadat x is name checked by Dean blunt
I watched that video you posted and didn't like the sound of his voice so never pursued him
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you do know the area but I doubt it guys who are this deep into Arthur Jafa don't come across as having swift hands
You're the kind of man who would bring the guardian to a building site and fake shock at somehow having a copy in your bag
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you can't see me but after reading this i had my arms stretched out like the "bruh" meme
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Can you for once FOR ONCE try to learn about a rapper not by way of Dean blunt?
Just ONE time
Just ONE time
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You won't be once those builders see you, went and made yourself a target
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is not like other people
as i said i was in a bookshop buying his book
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I'm that case you are exempt
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padraig (u.s.)
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there's a strong element of social banditry in the novel's gangsters - at least when in they're in JA, in the 70s
reflecting the strong vein of social banditry - outlaw as folk hero - running through the JA badman tradition, i.e. The Harder They Come etc
I think James does an excellent job of showing how the reality is - unsurprisingly - decidedly less romantic and more complicated
i.e. there is a sense of the gangsters as lumpen rebels, but at the same time they're employed as enforcers and tools of oppression against their own people and communities - cooptation has, I believe, been a common response to banditry from the state
Josey Wales is the smartest and most self-aware of the gangsters, the only one iirc who seems to grasp just how they're being used by CIA et al and what the means, so even if he's too calculating and self-interested to be sympathetic like Papa Lo, you can still mourn his demise at the hands of the Man
padraig (u.s.)
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once they get to the U.S. - i.e. are removed from their community - they're just gangsters like any gangsters, the social bandit element is gone
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It's interesting because he's somebody whose explained more than once why violence in his books are what they are and it's because he wants to longer on them in ways that other mediums don't because they're hoping the viewers don't pay no mind to it
That calculation and self interest is what a usually the big divider between the generations of criminals and goons and the older guard of you really pressed some of them why they did all that they did they really couldn't tell you
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@padraig (u.s.) also if you haven't read book of night women I highly recommend that one
padraig (u.s.)
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initial generation often has some kind of resistance purpose, even if it's just blindly lashing out against injustice and can't be articulated
if that generation survives and prospers, it becomes a business, its own power structure
new generation comes along and 1) isn't desperate, or as desperate as the founders 2) is more interested in business opportunities
banditry is at cross-purposes with organized crime
organized crime wants to coopt power structures. bandits bring down bad heat, and get gunned down in the street.
it was the major theme of that John Dillinger movie Michael Mann and Johnny Depp did awhile back
Dillinger and his ilk as anachronism in the era of crime as large-scale, organized business
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and yeah I'll have to check out his first two at some point
I'd assume w/o looking into it that the social bandit badman thing harks back to escaped slaves and maroon communities and so on, in folk memory
sounds like The Book of Night Women gets into that era - sounds like a really interesting book
I'm somewhat familiar with Haitian sugar plantation slavery, which was unimaginably brutal, can't JA was much better if any
I'd assume w/o looking into it that the social bandit badman thing harks back to escaped slaves and maroon communities and so on, in folk memory
sounds like The Book of Night Women gets into that era - sounds like a really interesting book
I'm somewhat familiar with Haitian sugar plantation slavery, which was unimaginably brutal, can't JA was much better if any