M M Make Crack Like This With Master P

Business and life lessons courtesy of 1997’s “Ghetto D.”

When I was 15, I was a sophomore at a small, non-denominational Christian school in South Louisiana. The student body was overwhelmingly white, and we had chapel services daily to remind us of the sacrifice Jesus Christ made for us.

Also, we loved rap music. The filthier, the better. After school, you could hear Bronco trucks with overpowered speakers blaring late-nineties rap tunes in the parking lot. It drove the parents and the administration crazy, but we loved it.

Living in Louisiana at that time, we were lucky enough to get in on the ground floor of the swell of Southern rappers just coming onto the scene. We were spoiled for choice, from Lil Wayne, Birdman, and the Cash Money Millionaires to Outkast and Mike Jones.

Their music was raw and spoke to life in the streets of which me and my overwhelmingly white friends were blissfully unaware.

It all came to a head when, in 1997, Master P and the No Limit Soldiers released their album “Ghetto D,” with the eponymous single that took us young, impressionable Christians through a detailed, step-by-step guide to making crack cocaine.