Everybody likes to see the bad guy win — especially when the bad guy is simply a misunderstood anti-hero.

California’s very own 2Eleven knows how wax street poetics just as well as any rap vet bubbling underneath the surface and his new video for “Tales of a Hustler” outlines the ups and downs the game tends to offer.

Make sure you’re not on your work computer while engrossed in this HipHopDX premiere. Hustlers tend to party at the strip club from time to time and we’re not sure your boss will completely understand.

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