Connection to the complexion: fact. Also endemic to systemic fail: horizontal hostility.
Cab drivers, immigrants, poor and working folk, first generation Americans - which is to say Americans not born here but every bit as much countrymen by virtue of our shared citizenship - are not the enemy. Nevertheless, "Code of the Streets" was how I first heard Gang Starr and understandably thus, first to invade my head. It is the one track off their 1994 album, Hard to Earn, where Guru is listed first as producer.
I've never met Guru's producers, Primo and Solar, or their archetypal precursors, Biggie and Tupac. What concerns me is why certain men are susceptible to mortality rates that deviate far too young from societal norms.
Sources: The Daily Swarm, Downloadable Hot 97 Guru Tribute