I'm half-asleep right now, but I wanted to get this off my chest since yesterday. As I drove into work yesterday, I heard on the radio that T.I.'s crew was involved in a high speed chase and one of T.I.'s crew members, his personal assistant, was killed (Click here for article).
At first, I thought "That's terrible." Then, I thought, "Didn't that dude from Eminem's group D12 get killed a week ago?" It's sad that now when we hear that a rapper has died, we immediately refer to the other rappers who've died.
I mean, you think people would get a clue that death is REAL...it's the end of that person's earthly existence forever. Not to sound morbid, but it seems that today's "wanna be thugs" or "true life thugs" think only about how tough they feel with a gun, but they don't think about how it'd feel to know that your last breaths were on their way out of your body.
So, with the deaths of Biggie, Tupac, D12 dude (cause I don't know his name), T.I.'s personal assistant, and others, when will these rappers get a clue and get hyped about LIFE, not death?
Is this nation doomed to lose more and more young men to violence due to how sexy rap music has made it? Or is this just a demonstration of how 'ignant (ignorant) folks can be?
What do you think?
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Personally, I don't think rap can ever be non-violent...it'd take all the sexiness out of the music. People like the hardness, the violence, the "i don't give an f***" attitude in rap because it provides them an outlet for the things they think, but can't say. For example, for people who go to work everyday and feel the drone of doing the same thing day-in, day-out, when they get home...all they want to say is "f*** that job, or f*** that person at work", and rap music gives them that outlet. They can mouth the words and imagine whoever they want as the target of the lyrics. In some ways, rap is the opium for people's problems of being bored, unmotivated, overworked, and underpaid. It gives everyday people a way to lash out at their imaginary target and feel better.
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