After five strong seasons of brilliantly capturing street capitalism, political corruption, and general codes of Gangster-Men (listen: American Gangster) in the city of Baltimore, HBO’s hit series The Wire goes out with a final bang later on tonight. Ironically, this stop the violence track by D.C. go-go band Rare Essence, featuring a young Big G–otherwise known as Slim Charles to fans of The Wire–popped up on my iTunes playlist a few days ago. After tracking down the video, which I hadn’t seen in years, on YouTube, I thought I’d find a way to share it with you guys here on the site…in the form of a Wire post. So here it is. After you peep the vid, get familiar with Slim’s own go-go band, “The Backyard Band”, here, here, and on iTunes.