As such, it shouldn’t be a surprise that rappers tend to be gamblers. After all, what could be a longer shot, a riskier enterprise, than pursuing a creative life as your livelihood? Now take that basic premise and multiply it by ten, and you’ll start to understand the mentality of a rapper.Īlmost every rapper you know and love is a lottery winner who has hit an eight million to one parlay with dozens of legs. The odds are long, the stakes are high, and the house always wins, eventually. As Kenny Rogers established long ago, life itself is a gamble.
