Like his friend Nicholas Mormando, DeBatt became addicted to crack cocaine sometime during the Crack epidemic in 1984.
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Based on the events of the time, the song references such topics as Willie Horton, the Iran-Contra Affair, Oliver North, the Crack epidemic and many others.