It contains no chorus and abandons the typical 16-bar construction of a rap verse. "Ten Crack Commandments" does not follow the typical constructs of a hip hop or pop song. These two factors encouraged both The Source and rappers to discuss drug-dealing in the way that promoted physical and fiscal security without discouraging dealers to stop selling drugs. The war on drugs sought to quell the incredible impact that drugs had on the United States and the increase in violent crime nationwide. A lack of economic opportunity forced urbanites to turn to selling drugs and other illicit forms of employment to make ends meet and provide for their families. The relationship between drugs and hip hop music can be mapped onto the politics of drug use in urban communities during the epidemic.
Beginning around the same time as hip hop music became the sound of these same urban areas, the manifestations of the crack epidemic became a key theme in hip hop music. The crack epidemic of the early 1980s and the early 1990s was the flood of crack cocaine usage in urban communities across the United States. The July 1994 article, entitled "On the Rocks: From 1984 to 1994, Ten Years of Crack", included a sidebar, "A Crack Dealer's Ten Crack Commandments" that outlines ten critical rules to help dealers survive and thrive in the drug business. Biggie, purportedly, was inspired by an article penned by Khary Kimani Turner (under the pseudonym KT) in the hip hop magazine The Source. The song is a step-by-step guide to achieving success as a drug-dealer.
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