Kay’s Post:
I was watching The Big Bang Theory.
“I couldn’t find you guys so I bought six new friends. Three sadly are dead.”
Raj was referencing the six pack of beer he bought while waiting for his friends to return home.
I find this show has its moments, but this quote reminds me of a Mobb Deep song called “drink away the pain”. Mobb deep is a rap group from Queens, rising to fame in the mid 90’s for their debut album “Shook Ones”. Their song drink away the pain deals with alcohol being like a female partner helping to ease the daily stress of living in Queens Bridge. Prodigy, the main rapper in the group, loses his friends to drug related wars on a constant basis. Whether it be by the gun or the handcuffs of a cop. Prodigy like many others in his hood are just trying to make a daily living in the poverty plagued streets of Queens, NY. Raj loses three friends, Prodigy gets a new one every time he cracks a bottle of EJ, or at least has an inebriated moment of clarity remembering all of the fallen soldiers that were also his comrades. Which brings up a larger issue of alcoholism and how many people do try to drink away the pain, and that is sometimes the only secure thing in their life , unless they run out of money, but in my experience, people who are alcoholics always find a way. I had look at this post before and just laughed thinking of Raj saying this, but then I really had a reflective moment and this is what came to mind.
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