Ok, thanks to some previous comments, which put me on the trail of Candyman’s possible meaning (or plot or however you’d like to phrase it) being not about a drug dealer but a “rounder” or a “back door man” (“I eats mo’ chicken any man ever seen” — godDAMN that’s STILL a BAD ASS lyric, I am not sure exactly why it is, but it is. But I digress…), which I believe makes a lot of sense, and the final detail is that the Candyman brings a floating craps game with him wherever he goes, gets word out so that men flock to gamble, then, while the men are throwing dice, Candyman goes around and “comforts” as many of their lonely, lonely wives he can get to while he’s “in town”.
Ok, thanks to some previous comments, which put me on the trail of Candyman’s possible meaning (or plot or however you’d like to phrase it) being not about a drug dealer but a “rounder” or a “back door man” (“I eats mo’ chicken any man ever seen” — godDAMN that’s STILL a BAD ASS lyric, I am not sure exactly why it is, but it is. But I digress…), which I believe makes a lot of sense, and the final detail is that the Candyman brings a floating craps game with him wherever he goes, gets word out so that men flock to gamble, then, while the men are throwing dice, Candyman goes around and “comforts” as many of their lonely, lonely wives he can get to while he’s “in town”.