For every glamorous “Big Pimpin,” there is a document of his fear and loathing like “Streets Is Watching.” In return for his crimes, he gave us a window into the process of his evolution from hustler to pop phenom - all the while keeping count of his progress in diamonds, cars and bottles of Cristal. Over the last four albums of his reign, Jay-Z has offered crime-born insights edged with a razor awareness of not only the dangers and angles of the streets but also the consequences of his actions - on himself, his family and his community. Outside of Iceberg Slim, no one has offered a more detailed portrait of the hustler as a young man. In the pantheon of street-cultural gods, the hustler is the bejeweled strategist, a ghetto politician who moves with the money and mommies - the cat who can hang with the thugs, high rollers, Los Angeles Bloods and Brooklyn gods with equal grace.
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