Abandoned houses and Hip Hop

currently i am in the class Politics and the Hip Hop Generation and multiple times i have seen abandoned houses come up in texts or class discussion and i though it was very cool to be able to relate this to our class. we have primarily talked about the abandoned houses in the South Bronx during the 70's and what life was like for people living there. it was interesting to find out that an underground economy began in this area that consisted of building owners hiring thugs or random people to burn down their property so that they could receive the insurance money instead of just letting the building sit there and rot away.