Ice-T’s High Rollers, Nas’ Life Is Like A Dice Game are a couple of the many Hip-Hop songs that allude to the games and their surrounding lifestyle.Ī weekend in Vegas at the slots or the roulette table will anybody feel like a shot caller. Ice Cube’s Today Was A Good Day featured a stunning Craps victory as one of its satisfying elements, while the classic intro to Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G’s reworking of Renee and Angela’s I Love Your More, I Love The Dough featured a vigorous street dice game. The gambler has been lauded everywhere from the elite sophisticate spy James Bond through the blue-collar image of Kenny Rogers as the gambler all the way through the music industry, with its bombarding images of excess and devil-may-care excess. There is something primal about anyone willing to take risks in order to reap rewards and a certain sophistication to be admired in the calculation of odds.
People from all walks of life respect the high stakes gambler.
