Also, no one said anything to prompt you to think this at all. This is completely irrelevant to this discussion and I'm not sure where you're getting this from. No one here cares that drugs are mentioned on the internet and everyone here understands that you can get drugs out in the open, mostly because most people who post here live in a major city. I hate to tell you this: New York isn’t the only city where this sort of thing happens, or where people take drugs, or where people live in crime-ridden neighbourhoods.
There are crack dealers on MY corner for fuck's sake, and I live in Toronto.
Have you ever been anywhere else or what?
Edit: Also I actually didn't even point out anything about Biggie exaggerating about selling drugs. You did that. I pointed out that he is exaggerating his hyper-violent, nihilistic, hedonistic persona.
Actually I said he WASN'T exaggerating about selling crack because he and his entire label ran crack! I don't have any problem with anyone talking about anything. Let's not pretend we don't know what I mean when I say some people here, mostly British people, get TRES UNCOMFORTABLE when the subject comes up. It's very obvious.
Second, of course you can get drugs anywhere, but there's nowhere near the same sort of availability and widespread use in every city. Especially if we compare, for example Rome to New Orleans or Paris to Los Angeles.
My point with Biggie is that he's nothing like Tom Waits. Tom Waits is fabricating an image out of thin air (which is incidentally fine with me), but Biggie was just falling into the tropes of hip-hop while continuing a lifestyle that was well-known to him and that he'd been part of well before he began his hip-hop career.
He really did beat the shit out of Faith Evans. For reals. He really did have a lot of problems. He wasn't making up the misogyny, it was all real. Sadly, he didn't have to make up a lot of that stuff because it's not so uncommon. That is my point.
