the clash song "up in heaven (not only here)" has a similar topic, the high rise estates crammed with workers, creating unfriendly, hostile surroundings
"No amount of neon jazz could hide the oozing vibes of death" is a variation on the Holiday in Cambodia theme of POOR being labelled COOL too often when well-off students talk about ghetto gangster shiat. Writers like Bukowski and Kerouac also did their fare share of glamourizing poverty ... as long as there's jazz playing, the barfly can't be that suicidal.
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