It's Hard out Here for a Pimp...

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We should all be troubled that America and American Empire can be posited in the same breath. But, as a nation, we could care less. There is a plethora of analogies to use to define this obvious, though justifiable, sarcastic perspective on our reality today. Empires always seem to indicate helplessness, impotency. In the microcosm of hiphop, the world is comprised of bitches, 'hoes, dogs, and the man. This is how empires are structured.

The 'man' in the empire is the smallest piece in the pie-chart, but carries the most weight because the man has the baddest weapons, the most wealth, and the baddest dogs guarding the castle. The rest of the society (easily 90%) is made up of dogs (crackers), bitches and hoes. The difference between our empire and say the Soviet empire is in ours, we can (still) bitch in writing read-by-the-public, whereas they would go to the gulag if they posted written complaints about their empire.

We here in amurika can (still) bitch and whine in public/in writing, they could not. And the only forum left to bitch and whine is the Internet, which the man is working fulltime to turn our Net into the Chinese model (crime families, because they are basically stupid, steal ideas from each other so that their bitches and hoes don't figure it all out, turning first on their own dogs before coming after the man.).

Hiphop, like true gangstas, take it all down to the basics, to the street-level of life. They existentially accept the ground rules: don't fuck with the man, but you can fuck anything and everyone else. In fact the man encourages and promotes this divide-and-conquer motif, knowing that the dogs, bitches and hoes will come after him if they stopped fighting among themselves.

So, we’ll keep doin what all punks do: pretend'n to be bad, pretend'n to be a big dog, pretend'n to keep our bitches and hoes in line, fine-tuning the hydraulics on our Escalades … just like the man wants.

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You know it's hard out here for a pimp
When he tryin to get this money for the rent
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent
[1] Because a whole lot of bitches talkin shit
[2] Will have a whole lot of bitches talkin shit