Filthy Lucre

Is it just me or does Stephon's "Max-Contract" talk paired with discussion of buying out his contract suggest some novel and unavoidable parallels with the Great Rock & Roll Swindle? Getting signed to one record label after another, maxing out and moving on. The Dollar once again proves itself to be ultimate jam, leaving the Lost Potential narrative in the lurch along with the Bad News Bears teamwork myth I love so much. We have a League of Hustlers and Staten Island's Finest has become the genius punk version of our beloved Scarface myth he benefits by existing against society, gaining from its hate as his body renders him increasingly unable to produce work worthy of its love.