Politics As Usual

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This pain, this pain, this pain again)

When you are a drug dealer, your “body politic” consists of your supplier, your customers, the police, and the competition. To paraphrase former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill: For a cocaine dealer, “all politics is local.” Producer Ski Beatz created the beat for “Politics As Usual” with a sample from “Hurry Up This Way Again” by The Stylistics, which producer Clark Kent also sampled and submitted to Jay later but Ski’s version was used for the album. Ski talked about the track in an interview with Complex: "We was working on "Reasonable Doubt" at the time. Any… read more
When you are a drug dealer, your “body politic” consists of your supplier, your customers, the police, and the competition. To paraphrase former Spea… read more
When you are a drug dealer, your “body politic” consists of your supplier, your customers, the police, and the competition. To paraphrase former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill: Fo… read more

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