The Importance of Check Bouncing

"I got an N.R.N. and a fucking paycheck," he says of his early days in the music industry. "Everything was fine for years and then they started bouncing checks on us, right? And that was a big deal back then." He gets blacklisted from having a bank account due to Bush's '08 executive order against foreign nationals with more than $1 million in credit card accounts. The rapper has since been able to find work but is still working part-time as a musician.