And ever since I was a tarface baby, watchin’ Scarface

I dreamed of guns and tons of coke on a car chase

A fat connect with a kingpin Colombian

Plus props from crooked cops, payin’ him tops not to run me in

Keepin my toaster in a shoulder holster

Havin hoes playin me closer, sexin on a silk sofa

Livin the life of the rich and trife

Rugged but sharp like a kitchen knife

Without stress from some bitchin wife

What a life, that's why I be on what I be on

Always ready to war for a score that's sure to put me on.

--Lyrics taken from AZ’s title song of his 1995 album Doe or Die.

As distinguished in the lyrics of AZ’s song “Doe or Die,” criminal activities are often linked together. Combinations of deviant behavior carried out by individuals or groups have a cataclysmic impact on the people performing the actions, targeted groups, and innocent bystanders. A prime example of a man that twisted a devastating combination of criminal activity is Pablo Escobar, the ringleader of the Medellin cocaine cartel in Colombia. There is strong resemblance to the life of Escobar in AZ’s lyrics demonstrated above. Escobar had little concern for people outside of his ci

Escobar life of crime started early on. James Adams, a historian and author of “Medellin’s New Generation,” notes that by the time Escobar was 20 years-old, he was already a powerful gangster and accomplished car thief that had developed the a reputation as “a young crime boss on the make….that used casual lethal violence” (23). Mark Bowden, journalist and historical researcher and author of Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw, explains that Escobar’s early use of violence in criminal activities caused wrought respect from local criminals (113). Escobar’s criminal skills, respect in the criminal community, and birth in Medellin, Columbia made him an excellent person to implement the trafficking of Columbia’s newest illegal export: cocaine.

The Los Angeles Times on the Web. 16 April 2001. 20 Nov. 2003.

This article describes Pablo Escobar’s role as a drug-dealing terrorist; it blames him for the majority of violence in Columbia in a decade when he was facing defeat. The article then suggests that violence has decreased since the death of Escobar and the breakup of the Medellin Cartel. This article reports that the remaining members of the Medellin Cartel and its rivals are fostering a larger and more sophisticated drug trade in Columbia.

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