Crazy thing is that some of your favorite rappers growing up were fukking junkies and grade A hoodlums.... but people wanna play after school special when it comes to Chief Keef like he's doing anything that them old rappers didn't do.
y'all didn't start feeling sorry for DMX til he was in his 40's and his life was falling apart and looked like the walking dead......but him being a functioning crack addict who couldn't stay out of trouble was all good cause he made music you liked.
You kinda sorta have a point but then again there's a couple reasons why I wasn't as concerned about DMX as I am Keef.
1. There was no social media for DMX to display how stupid and pathettic his life could have possibly been at that time. And even if it was I'm not sure he would be broadcasting it willingly like these dumb nikkas, one of these clowns seemingly put info on their twitter about a murder that they were involved in, I don't think X or most of the "junkies" and dust heads of the 90's were that disconnected from common sense.
I was more so "looking up" to X, who was late 20's, early 30's during his heyday, I didn't have the presense of mind, nor the amount of in your face evidence to be "outraged" by some shyt that for the most part remained on wax.
2. I'm grown now. I do my part to mentor family members and kids his age and he's really just now crossing that threshhold between being a boy and being a man, at least legally. In my opinion being 18...or even well into your 20's doesn't make you a man. I think we have a very distorted view of manhood, maturity and the time it takes for someone to really perfect the art of moving like an "adult" in this world. I'm still learning so much myself and i'm old by some of these nikkas standards. It's much more complex than being of voting/drinking/fukking age.
You can't get mad at nikkas who have matured in this and see a better way just because rappers of the past got some sort of "pass", especially seeing how they didn't really need one. The closest thing to an overt example of someone doing way too much for his own good was probably ODB, and even then you really didn't get much of a grasp on how serious his situation was.