RIP to PNB...
It was a crime of opportunity, I don't know if anything else led to this but he definitely was wide open in a neighborhood he isn't from...
Here's the thing, this can (and does) happen to regular cats and street cats everywhere. But in the real world, let's say he was a known hood figure FROM LA or any city, dudes gotta think twice about hitting you because there are street ramifications for it. Known cats with reputations tend to be connected to other people with reputations, this balances out the risk of violence---->not that it won't happen because it does, but when dudes know you may be itchy upon approach and when they know you have a hit squad behind you, they are going to think twice before engaging because hitting a known figure FROM here is costly...
This isn't specific to LA, this is a reality that plays out anywhere...
PNB is in the HOOD in a city he isn't from with no real connections, there's no get back for harming him. There's no street risk in harming him. This is Point One...
Point Two, are street rappers general disconnection and lack of self-awareness in general, in that being celebrities reduces the risk of being harmed. Dudes become disconnected to the common man's reality, if they were ever in tune at all really...
One of the most important points though, is this is correlated to the glorification of street activities, because the guys who don't glorify themselves or the streets in their music aren't the ones being harmed. This is why this happens in hip hop more than artists of other genres, and this is why this happens to street rappers. No other genre glorifies criminality like this, and I'm not gonna go too deep into the rabbit hole but even vids of PNB being linked in thus thread are of him threatening to smoke nikkas, saying he goes places without security, being Hella braggadocious, BRAZENLY STATING "IVE NEVER BEEN ROBBED IN MY LIFE"...
In the real world that happens every day in your city, my city, everyone's city, if that's who you are then move appropriately because regular guys want to see what that's about...
I'm not saying he deserved this but if we believe who he says he is, and I have no reason to think he wasn't who he said he was, then he wasn't innocent and all this shyt comes back full circle when you live that way...
Yall only care because it's another rapper. This happens to regular guys every day, EVERYWHERE, and most of those dudes who present themselves that way are far from innocent, but the regular guys are irrelevant. This only matters to most of you because it's a rapper and because it's LA...
