You’re joking right? The shootings detailed in the pleading on the linked Smoking Gun page had everything to do with a “hip-hop” sub-culture that promotes posturing amongst rivals and is saturated with references to hand-guns and gun violence. We’re in real trouble when these schmekels learn how to properly fire a weapon. Seriously, over twenty rounds in close confrontation with a .9 mm and sub machine guns and the worst injury is a shot to the leg.
No it’s not irrelevant. It’s part of the same sub-culture where violence is an acceptable response to a slight. Also, I’m not a resident New Yorker and haven’t listened to this guy, but when you say he’s not part of the hip hop generation, I expect to see Barry Gordy. This guy looks to be 30, maybe 35. When do you think the hip hop generation began?
It was a disagreement between two groups of people not unlike what happens everyday. Music is being made the scapegoat for people’s irresponsible behavior, and as a way to tell people dangerous black thugs were involved. there is no causal relationship there to make their occupations relevant.
Agreed
A “sub-culture” the DJ is not a part of. Either way, the point you’ve made is debatable.
He is 42 years old. He specifically went out of his way to play other genres of music on his show. He makes fun of people in the “hip-hop” culture.
That strikes me as willfully naive. One of the disargeements had to do with a slight concerning being dropped from a label, this in a sub-culture where gun-violence is an appropriate response to a slight. Hell, some even speculated that it was a P.R. stunt – now why would a gunfight be a good P.R. stunt for a musician unless the musician operated within a sub-culture of gun violence? When being a thug is part of the culture, the culture will be associated with thugishness.
Allow me to quote T.I., “who I’m is/ rubber-band man, wild as the Taliban/ nine in my right, forty-five in the other hand.” Nope, no glorification of gun violence there.
Or how about Akon and Young Jeezy,“Just because we stack paper and we ball outrageous/Them alphabet boards gotta us under survalence /They lock us in cages/The same nigga that’s a star when you put ‘em on stages/I ain’t cheat–played the hand I was dealt/Tried to tax the grand pearl when I got it myself/No nuts, no glory/My biography, you damn right, the true story/Set the city on fire, and I didn’t even try/Run these streets all day, I can sleep when I die/Cause if you lookin’ for me you you can find me/On the block disobeyin’ the law/Real G–thoroughbred from the streets/Pants saggin’ with my gun in my draws.” Seems like they have a good handle on the relationship between certain sub-genres of hip-hop and gun/gang violence.
Boy, that’s a tiny gun I presume you got that from the article, because I saw the same error there. It’s 9mm, not .9mm.
I see your point. These guys are probably untrained, don’t have a place for target practice, are using cheap guns that have never been sighted in… Of course they’re going to miss most of the time.