Takeoff (The Migos) Killed In Houston

[JustCKing]

Lower income? Doesn't seem to be the case.

More black people in poverty? Doesn't seem to be the case.

Worse educational situation? Doesn't seem to be the case.

Would you expect homicide rates to be higher in 2005 than 1970-something for black men based on these trends?

Breh, those stats are misleading. Just because Blacks are earning more doesn't take into consideration that we just went through a pandemic. Prices and costs increased. People were evicted from homes. And if we just look at 2005, there are these factors. Katrina was a huge factor as well.

 

[Matt504]

What’s the point of this? Only like 3 of them on the list have remotely violent street hip hop records.

Wild how you can look at a list of the most streamed artists, counts literally in the billions and attempt to minimize it by saying "well only three make violent street hip hop records"



2 of these artists rap non-stop about murdering Black people in celebratory fashion, the third (Future) routinely raps about having his "young n*ggas" murder Black people.

This shyt is anti-Black and there's no way around it.

 

[IIVI]

After watching that video a few times, those shots I'm 99% sure came from behind everybody (the right of the screen).

That guy who everyone thinks punched Quavo actually was facing the direction those shots were coming from and his feet moving like that were probably because he saw the gun and ducked. Watch that video again, that guys feet were pointing to the right the direction the shooter would have been firing from.

Everyone facing the other direction (looking left in the video) would not have seen who was shooting because it was coming from the other direction.

Those "arguments" had nothing to do with the shooting and nothing to do with Quavo instigating anything because it seemed like it was some dude firing into the crowd. Additionally, the guy the guy Quavo was "arguing" with seemed cool with everyone.

Dude with the red satchel returned fire but by the time he draws his gun you can see Takeoff is hit by that point.

Absolutely senseless. Once again, RIP.

 

[///Vega+++]

So this was an accidental killing
I guess the shooter was intoxicated in addition to having terrible aim
What a stupid way to have your life taken away...
never listened to their music but know they are popular...
Some lessons seem damn hard to be learned despite regular reminders...
RIP I guess

 

[Sbp]

@Matt504 hasn't been in a SINGLE THREAD DISCUSSING HIP-HOP.

But bro trots out the same tired shyt every time someone is MURDERED.

How do y'all NOT SEE IT ?

He is not of the culture.

He's an agenda driven vulture.

I been told everybody this.

 

[Insensitive]

Wild how you can look at a list of the most streamed artists, counts literally in the billions and attempt to minimize it by saying "well only three make violent street hip hop records"



2 of these artists rap non-stop about murdering Black people in celebratory fashion, the third (Future) routinely raps about having his "young n*ggas" murder Black people.

This shyt is anti-Black and there's no way around it.

All this dude does is post Candace Owens/Kanye West right winger points and gets dapped for it.

Literally epitomizes my issue with the Booth/locker room

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Breh, those stats are misleading. Just because Blacks are earning more doesn't take into consideration that we just went through a pandemic. Prices and costs increased. People were evicted from homes. And if we just look at 2005, there are these factors. Katrina was a huge factor as well.

prices went up for everyone
there was an eviction moratorium in many places, not a wave of evictions
these are national stats, katrina did not have a heavy impact nationwide beyond the reshuffling across some gulf states

 

[Matt504]

All this dude does is post Candace Owens/Kanye West right winger points and gets dapped for it.

Literally epitomizes my issue with the Booth/locker room

is this anti-Black in your opinion?

 

[livindajetlife]

That isn't Hip-Hop culture.
Your post reeks dishonesty.

Smino, a dude with 5 million listeners just dropped a record about being an everyman.

You are nowhere to be found.

You are not a Hip-Hop fan.

I'm tempted to call you a fraud with an axe to grind.

Why do y’all continue to respond to this clown

 

[spliz]

prices went up for everyone
there was an eviction moratorium in many places, not a wave of evictions
these are national stats, katrina did not have a heavy impact nationwide beyond the reshuffling across some gulf states

Crime is up across the board since the pandemic and of course its gonna be higher in the more urban and poor areas. I mean this easy to see. It's not rocket science.

 

[Insensitive]

Why do y’all continue to respond to this clown

Idk why I keep feeding that troll.

I just don't know why we let bro run rampant in The Booth.
Moderation should be clipping his wings.

 

[spliz]

economics yes, but what structurally....and legally ... is causing young black men to pull the trigger on other young black men?

structural - are guns built into the walls of their homes?

legally - is there a law that states black men must kill someone or face banishment?

break it down as to why when you control across income, we are killing at a higher clip than poor asians, latinos and whites?

Go ahead and roll ur eyes to the FACTS shorty I don't have time to give u a history lesson tho. Do ur research and then Holla at me. Also u never been to asian hoods? They got gangs and all kinda shyt. Word to China Mac.

 

[JustCKing]

prices went up for everyone
there was an eviction moratorium in many places, not a wave of evictions
these are national stats, katrina did not have a heavy impact nationwide beyond the reshuffling across some gulf states

Of course, prices went up for everyone, but we all know minorities feel that effect more. Katrina did have a heavy effect to not just Louisiana because there were families displaced and migrated to other parts of the country.

 

[Matt504]

Idk why I keep feeding that troll.

I just don't know why we let bro run rampant in The Booth.
Moderation should be clipping his wings.

I'm sure they would if they had a real reason to.

"I don't see you in Smino threads" probably doesn't rise to the level of infraction.

But the elephant in the room is that you have no counterarguments to the point I raise about anti-Blackness in hip hop so all you're left with is deflections and name calling, that alone tells the story.

 

[Braman]

Again causation =/= correlation…. learn what that phrase means …just because a “rapper” is involved with something does not mean that “rap” is the cause of that action … YOU are the one coming up with unneeded babble as we see here below

You need to educate yourself on the gun violence rate in this country vs others since you admittedly have no idea what’s going on in the United States

This is exactly what I’m talking about ….nikkas will hop in these threads …ramble a bunch of non-sequitur babble that has absolutely 0 to do with the ACTUAL facts on the ground just to shoe horn in their goofy ass agendas …it’s literal text box shoehorning out of the damn dictionary

nikkas get on here and exploit one of these tragic situations to soapbox their half baked nonsense in the vain attempt at looking or sounding “thoughtful” …then got the nerve to call themselves “reality” smh

You can’t possibly be arguing this isn’t hip hop culture. My goodness

There’s a simple and deeper answer to this.

Simple: J Prince has managed tons of rappers, and Jas Prince broke Drake. The Prince family are major players in the rap game. Simultaneously, they are DEEP in the Houston underworld. So immediately , there’s the rap link. This is the 2nd rap affiliated dude killed messing around with J Prince jr. and people close to him. And it’s the same for virtually all rap crews, they are literal street crews. Therefore you can barely be a rapper without being linked to the streets—-and when I say streets, I mean GANGS, murderers, drug traffickers, literal drug rackets. (YFN, NBA, O Block, etc)

That is the very simple straight line between 2 points . How anyone can argue that, I have no idea

The deeper answer is the rap game is now about flash and taunting. So when a rapper is around street cats who 99% of the time are the biggest fish around, those street cats feel a way. Their ego isnt often challenged…and when their ego is challagened, they only know one way to respond.

If you need more psycholgical backing for this, go read up on Mike Tyson. He said he felt inferior so he robbed folk. Physical aggression was the only way he felt like a man. Now imagine what’s going on in street cats minds around rappers

OR! Just think this is all happenstance and we don’t have a problem