Aspiring Rapper Gunned Down While Filming Video on Southside of Chicago

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oh i definitely understand that part, but going forward rappers really need to take into consideration just how much their music can influence someone in a bad situation

It's actually gotten a lot better, what with the big decline of gangster rap, however this growing support for trap music is a set back

I totally agree with that. Im really happy about guys like J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar who are huge rap stars right now but spit a lot of shyt thats more socially aware and thoughtful
 

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I agree and disagree with that statement. For the most part rap is just entertainment. What's happening in Chicago has just as much to do with the gangs that have been there for 5-plus decades than it has to do with rap. Rap is just the vehicle to get their message to the enemies out there. The Opps would've got him whether he was a rapper, or whether he was doing bee-bop. BUT then again, the Drill Music isn't helping the situation. I guess I see both sides of the argument. Music can be influential, but anyone who's even a tiny bit familiar with Chicago's gang-history has to believe that this violence would be here anyway. It's like the Chicken or the Egg argument.

I was watching a Vlad interview with MC Eiht, and he said that in LA, they used to do Drive-by's to Marvin Gaye's "I heard it Through The Grapevine", or Parliament-Funkadelic tunes. I kid you not.
Like on Menace 2 Society they were hunting for Harold's killers listening to "Love and Happiness" :mindblown:
 

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rip to the young man but we all know how this story go...we say rip and then DL his track about violence and turn up....the cycle keeps going
 

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Feel horrible for the families. These kids are out here perpetrating a lifestyle that you would normally see in some third world country, not the US.

As a person who's lost enough people to this bullshyt, it has to fukking stop. Death to drill.
 

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Rap is music and it can be beautiful and full of uplifting knowledge or it can be in this case, ugly and used as a tool for hate.

The hate comes from violent gang culture. Fix the violent gang issue and rap in that area of Chicago can go back to being great again.

If police isn't working then the neighborhood watch should form a militia led by some hard dudes who get results.

Weak solutions keep being introduced into a tough situation.

Look at how the wild west was won. It was tamed by bad dudes given badges and ocassionally, military intervention.

This is one of those cases where the bad people have to actually be exterminated to let the good people prosper. It happens all throughout history. You can talk peace this blacklivesmatter that, yadda yadda, it's not gonna kill the weeds choking out the flowers in the garden.

Now lets talk about how even though this has been going on for so long why the White man has not really done anything about it. Most don't care and they hope the niccas kill each off even more cause we keep reproducing at an alarming rate in spite of the violence. That's why only the Black man can fix Chicago. The militant Black man.

This is why we needed the Black Panther Party. They helped Black communities a lot. They cared and provided the knowledge and the self defense needed to solve our own problems. The White man got scared cause he knew once we were able to fix our own problems, we would then be able to fix all of America's problems and they ain't wanna relinquish control over America. It's a power struggle.

The good news is that the Black Panther Party movement never truly went away. It's an idea that will last and maybe someday they can clean up Chicago again. Cause unless the white man murders all the violent gangs to fix the problem the only other solution is for the people of Chicago to fix it themselves through a movement.

/rant

Lol @ that boondocks episode

And when i say the white man i ain't including non-racists like Bernie he cool. Referring to our crooked government.
 
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