Don't Get High On Your Own Supply

I was listening to an interview with rapper and former crack dealer Jay-Z on Fresh Air this week. Jay-Z mentioned a line from the film Scarface: "Don't get high on your own supply."

The writer of this interview relayed this observation: "Through his 14 years on the streets, he never touched crack. He says there was a strict code among successful hustlers."

Here is Jay-Z talking about his years as a crack dealer, versus not being a crack user:

"We had these guidelines to help us out," he says. "Some of us died, some of us didn't. I never wanted that. I saw what it was doing to the community."

To his credit, Jay-Z now acknowledges the awful irony in his former logic. A perverse inversion of the Golden Rule. So good that God does not treat us as we can treat others.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us

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