I always took "make nothing outta something" to go right along with the next line "you handle your biz, don't be crying and sufferin", meaning you do all your work(take something to do and make it nothing to do) and you are able to control your emotions and focus on the task at hand(take all the somethings goin on and make nothing of it)
Yeah, I always knew it was a flip of make nothing into something, which is that whole "Dollar out of $0.15 mentality". It's a dark side rebuke of a lot of blacks success stories.
I'll throw it all away in second - Alchemist
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"You know the feeling, young black male, what y'all dealin'? Take your whole life to get it, it only last you a minute" - Benny The Butcher.
Where I can probably point out a lot of glamorization, even if it's glamorization like horror movies glamorize the horrible, I make the argument that is really people that are just resigned to the fact..
Or in the common tongue, it just is what it is.
No sense in trying to change things, no sense in looking into the precursors how this came to be, or consequences thereof.
Nihilism, cynicism, fatalism, there are these themes that are omnipresent in a lot of hip-hop music. High key it's probably my favorite part of the music.