'Hustlin And The Son Of A Trickster'

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“The real Noriega, he owe me a hundred favours”(“Rick Ross – Hustlin’”), Rick Ross’s “Hustlin” relates with “The Son of a Trickster” because of the themes in both the rap song and the book. Some of the themes that are explored in “Hustlin” are about street life, drug dealing, consequences, etc. All these themes can be connected to Jared and his lifestyle in the book “Son of a Trickster”. Jared drug deals and he gets in trouble, “Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the sixteen year-old burnout in high school who sells weed cookies”(Robinson Eden). Jared gets involved in the street life that most drug dealers would get involved in. I feel like if there were a movie about the “Son of a Trickster”, the song “Hustlin” would be playing in the background when Jared is making the weed cookies and making money. …show more content…

Rick Ross talks about the drug empire he’s built and the street life that comes with it. Lots of drug dealing round me going down in Dade County. (Rick Ross – Hustlin’”) This line from “Hustlin” can relate to how there is drug dealing in “Kitimat” British Columbia where Jared is from in the Son of a Trickster. Another example, “I’m into distribution, I’m like Atlantic” (Rick Ross – Hustlin’). This lyric from “Hustlin” can also relate to Jared and his “distribution” of the weed cookies. Although in the song they are talking about a big cocaine empire, it still relates to Jareds weed cookie “business” in some ways. Like having a distribution plan, Jared only sells weed cookies to certain people in the beginning, and he only sells them in private areas, while in “Hustlin” they talk about the big drug empire and distribution across the Atlantic. The last connection I can make with the book and the song is the title of the song “Hustlin”, which explains Jareds present life. Jared has the weed cookies business because he wants to support his dad and he needs to support himself, so he is

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