J Prince is involved too? This is gonna get REALLY ugly.

wait what happened to cyhi?

Some dudes chased him by car, made him crash then shot at him for good measure: instagram.com/p/CLS4--dpVJC

Probably just clout chasing but feds gonna be on this dudes ass regardless

Ignore the tweet... But that's the pic. Been circling on loads of pages. Whoever was on the call with him snapshotted it and leaked it

Foul

Another issue is that a lot of the destructive lyrical content isn’t from the basis of a cautionary tale to warn onlookers and those mostly impacted by the culture to stay away or ‘there are consequences’ like late 80s-early 90s artists ..it’s outright glorification and idolatry in this generation.. especially drill culture, which is spreading all over the world.. mental health issues, emotional instability ravage our youth. especially the males in the communities. it’s disingenuous to roll the ‘it’s just entertainment’ dice, knowing that the dark impulses brought out with the help of this music will influence the ‘weak’ (in mind in spirit).

Homie made songs about shooting opps grandparents if he saw them and they turned around and killed his

We acknowledge how these rappers/artists that perpetuate this demonic s*** in their art ALSO influence kids with fashion brands (Gucci, supreme, fendi/LV,, hair styles, slang/vernacular ect, but shove their heads in the sand to avoid accountability because THEY love the music and it doesn’t affect THEM personally.. f*** ur ‘rip’ nigga.. you don’t care.

Music and entertainment raises our black children.

Nigga what

yeah this is pretty much what i wanted to write up earlier, the only way you can really mitigate this issue is getting at the root of the problem, which is as you said, socio-economic factors and also helping

things like poverty and violence, addiction and systemic racism have existed way before and will exist way after rap music is a thing

censorship/suppression of "street" media won't stop anything because it isn't the music that's doing it, it's the socio-economic factors pushing them towards the life and eventually to their death or prison

can you argue rap music is glorifying the hood in ways it shouldn't, as a form of entertainment? yes, and it's f***ed up because it sells and makes record labels a lot of money, people love consuming it like people do action movies and horror movies

however kids aren't becoming gang members because rappers tell them to, it's that the public schools are s*** because the income taxes being paid isn't much compared to richer neighborhoods, there's no jobs due to businesses not being in the area, and the only way to get out is to either do crime or get famous, or get lucky and hope your school grind pays off

the only people making good money in the area are hustlers doing illegal activities and it's all they have to look up, sadly because there's not much else opportunity-wise

also there's a whole lot of factors like mental health, food deserts, police oppression, etc.

it's a f***ed up cycle, and i believe the music is just speaking of these certain individuals perspective, and it gave them a meal ticket out due to their talents

s*** won't stop unless we allocate funds and overall business power to these affected communities and the people within them and truly confront america's original sins regarding race

Bruh, I don’t even know this nigga. This is some foul s*** like I’m just sitting here thinking what did he do like what kind of beef you in bro? I couldn’t imagine. F*** the music. Nigga I’m going nuclear like I need your whole bloodline erased

what do you think causes the f***ing issues in these kids that makes them follow the dope dealers and the gang members?

without handling the root issue, nothing will ever happen

the violent rap music will be less impactful when the things creating the foundation for the subject matter decrease

impulses are created out of opportunity

Nigga ain nobody disagreeing with you and I never implied that music was a sole causation or issue. I never implied that music was the root of the problem. what are u talking bout.

Cant even find who hes beefing with

Lmao when are we going to get to a place where we can acknowledge black men dissing other black men often to the point of death threats or threats against their families isn't "voicing issues of impoverished communities"

i totally understand the socioeconomic story of how we got here and the whole bullshit "black on black" crime stances, etc.

the white man don't have control over the music we choose to make and what we choose to glorify, he set a lot of socioeconomic factors in motion but he didn't invent smoking packs of niggas or upholding the hip hop caricature of having to be Super Nigga to the point where the only way you can be humbled is some s*** like what happened to Von or this

The Powers That Be have their faults but a lot of this s*** the culture has brought on itself within the past 30 years. Especially when there was protest music being made about these topic 30 years ago lol

we're too far gone because of s*** WE choose to push to the forefront of the culture

or a nigga simply getting get back for f*** s*** brazy or his affiliates did lol

what do yall think is the other side of all this ridiculous super Nigga s*** niggas rap in these songs lol

Exactly

It's always "too soon" when something like this happens and this conversation never gets had

We are very far away from "raising awareness/voicing issues" and in a full on minstrel show glorification cycle

“ the music will be less impactful when the things creating the subject matter decrease” - I agree with this but my point is that many are outright denying the influence and impact of the music serving as a catalyst in feeding the impulses already present to those most vulnerable based on our communities being the most affected by ‘rap culture it will always be most detrimental/destructive to our young men that lack proper education, emotional intelligence, guidance/support who have mental health disparities. All those variables work together to create this beast.

“We are very far away from "raising awareness/voicing issues" and in a full on minstrel show glorification cycle” - nigga I’ll slap the s*** outta u with the Holy Book with all this gospel u spitting righ nahh

this varies by situation and the answer is just as much cultural influences making it seem like street s***, selling d****, opps, etc. isn't as big of a deal as it is or like a kid growing up is p**** for not dabbling in it

as much as the answer is Ronald Reagan, the US treatment of African Americans as a whole, and other similar policies/laws

i know dudes from 2 story houses who crashed out and died not even 5 years removed from us graduating probably because the culture makes selling weed and robbing niggas and etc. etc. seem a lot less deep than it is and like thats just an easy way to get money lol

He watched on facetime while the house burned down

Insane

What the absolute f***. RIP man, s*** ain’t right

this is very sad. RIP and my condolences to his grandparents

RIP that ain’t right

that FT s*** is cap btw

I also don’t understand why ppl identifying destructive hip hop culture in ‘rap music’ as a CONTRIBUTING factor.. is being equated to some “sanctimonious” posturing as if we’re blaming all street music in general