Acting as an unemployed couple, their street credibility is often questioned by their new neighbours who are more at home with the ways of the concrete jungle.
It also demonstrates that hip-hop audiences have changed their valuation of street credibility from the requisite it once seemed to be to something far more fluid.
He says that critics (and middle-class black ones, especially) can be careful about endorsing acts perceived as not lending listeners street credibility, or as otherwise not being black enough.