“Never get high on your own supply”
Dopesick“Never get high on your own supply” is a compact rule of conduct drawn from a Notorious B.I.G. lyric and used in the book’s account of the heroin trade. Its blunt imperative links a dealer’s inventory to a prohibition against personal use, making the phrase both a warning and a memorable shorthand for the boundary it describes.
Source and Meaning
The book identifies the expression as a lyric from “Ten Crack Commandments.” Its force lies in the distinction between possessing and consuming the supply: the speaker’s instruction is not to cross from dealing into using one’s own product. The phrase’s clipped, commanding form gives that distinction the sound of an operational rule rather than an abstract reflection.
Place in the Account
The expression appears in material concerning Ronnie Jones, alongside information about his spending. The evidence identifies the lyric’s source but does not establish that Jones coined the maxim or that he followed it as a personal rule. In this context, it supplies a concise frame for reading the account of a dealer’s relationship to his product, without reducing the surrounding details to the slogan alone.
