Love how the director goes tight on Stringer's face when he's talking about running the copy shop like a legit business. Important character moment accentuated.
In a later scene Stringer has 1 regular guy (not in the drug game) working at the Copy business instead of those 3 corner boys. Guess those guys didn't work out.
I bought into all of Stringer's bullshit my first two viewings of The Wire. On a 3rd viewing, I can't help but feel embarrassed for him. I hear him the way Avon heard him, as a deluded man without a country.