Most of the hustles are meant, naturally, to appear not to be hustles at all, but genuine appeals for emergency financial assistance. |
Many of the hustles and scams in the film are taken directly from his own poolhall adventures. |
With legitimate job prospects hampered by a felony record, many ex-convicts return to old hustles to survive. |
In other cases, they were still running drugs as one of their many hustles, but they could not keep regular clients who trusted them. |
Better yet, I could skip all the hustles and put on a real money-making outfit. |
Then he says he hustles on the street only for enough money to buy food before going home to late at night. |