Mark Wahlberg Wants His Record Expunged So He Can Be a Cop

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96. The single was released after the incident

So it could not have been experiencing some meteoric rise at the time of the incident. Indeed, it almost failed like the previous singles, and the record company was ready to drop them. It caught fire in the summer, but wasn't a top 10 hit until fall. The previous poster claims to be stating facts; they are not documented facts.

A bank clerk and a teamster in the 80's in Dorchester is working class. Not dirt poor, but not exactly swimming in cash either.

I agree that Wahlberg's motives are cynical and he shouldn't be pardoned. The depiction of him as some privileged kid at the time is, however, false. He was a white working class kid whose older brother had some failed musical aspirations. Then he succeeded. That's all. Throw a rock in Southie, in Dorchester, in Queens, in the Bronx, in South Philly, in a million other working class neighborhoods in 1988 and you'll hit a sixteen year old with a similar profile.