BDK (Black Disciple Killers) also known as GD (Gangster Disciples) is a gang in Chicago. Rappers such as Lil Jay, P. Rico and Lil JoJo who was shot and killed at the age of just 18 by the Black Disciples, are affiliated with the gang. The gang is also known as BrickSquad, FBG (Fly Boy Gang), and Tooka Gang after fallen member Shondale Tooka Gregory. The Black Disciples, also known as GDK for Gangster Disciple Killers, are a rival gang to the Gangster Disciples, thats why they call them selves the Black Disciples KILLERS!
Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.
The song's lyrics were written at Vahsen's, a Port Chester, New York bar, on August 8, 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter Bob Neuwirth. The lyrics were inspired by the first line of a song written by San Francisco beat poet Michael McClure, Come on, God, and buy me a Mercedes Benz..