J-Zone Go Back To Sellin' Weed

For many in the inner city, the only exits from a life of limited opportunity and marginalization are sports, drugs, and entertainment, like the great urban philosopher Cameron Giles once said. Today’s rap landscape is full of people expounding on their previous activities outside of the law as reasons for their musical endeavors. For many, their desire to turn pain into power gives their artistic efforts merit.

But actually, artist and hip-hop historian J-Zone does not necessarily think it works that way. On his newest single, Zone encourages those among us who have nothing else to say on the microphone but remind the listener of their illegal past to return to their glory days and abandon their paper-thin rap pipe dreams.

“I know it sounds wrong but you do that better than you do writing songs!” No one encourages the community to embrace its potential like Chief Chinchilla aka Swagmaster Bacon aka J-Zone.