Which is why it’s so lucrative to be in the business. By federal law, even if two consenting adults agree on a mutually beneficial price, and in return an appropriate quantity, it is still illegal.
Think about it in context of the market he is dealing in, crack. In this song he explains how his “rules” got him mad cheddar (cash money) and if you don’t follow these rules, jail or death awaited you. It’s not a lawless society where chaos reigns. shows us even in the black market people still follow rules. song ‘Ten Crack Commandments’.The Notorious B.I.G. Biggie’s widow Faith Evans produced her own version of the song titled ‘Ten Wife Commandments’ while Lin-Manuel Miranda also paid homage to the song in his hit Broadway show Hamilton! with his ‘Ten Duel Commandments’. It has seen some memorable makeovers too. The song will go down in history as one of the seminal tracks of the 1990s. He helped hip hop break away from its formulaic recipe and bring the genre to fresh, uncharted territory. There’s no chorus on the track, and neither does Biggie abide by the 16-bar verse rule.
What’s most interesting about the track isn’t the beats or the lyrics but how far Biggie Smalls experiments with precisely what a rap song can be.
The article was enough fuel to throw on Biggie’s fire, and the rapper ran with the idea. The article was published in 1994 under the title ‘On the Rocks: From 1984 to 1994, Ten Years of Crack’ and included a note which provided ‘A Crack Dealer’s Ten Crack Commandments’, delivering a see of rules for all dealers to live by. After reading a survival guide to survive as a crack dealer in The Source magazine, Smalls decided to re-interpret that article and ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ was the splendid result. New York was in the midst of a crack epidemic, and it had swirled into a new decade to grab a new generation b the scruff of the neck and to drown them in addiction. In truth, this track is an example of Biggie’s prowess at telling stories from a human perspective, even if the protagonist is questionable. Not because it made light of the epidemic of crack that had swept through America in the 1980s to such devastating results, but because it showcased the life Big had been forced to lead. One of the final tracks Big recorded for Life After Death the song has gone down in history as one of his greats. One such track is the brutal yet brilliant ‘Ten Crack Commandments’.
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