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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 | 9:17am
Budding Rapper, Slim Dunkin Murdered In His Atlanta Studio
[RANT] Why the culture of Hip Hop inherently just can’t let the violence stop.
I refuse to let the death of another rapper just be another taley mark on the wall, a one liner in a song or a post on the Nation. This is sad. Despite what you may think about the evolution of the music another promising talent was snuffed out last Friday. Rapper Slim Dunkin, a Waka Flocka affiliate, was gunned down while in an Atlanta music studio as he prepared to film a music video. Atlanta Police Maj. Keith Meadows said the entertainer, born Mario Hamilton, was shot in the chest following an argument with the suspect.
“It appears the victim was scheduled to do a photo shoot,” Meadows told The Associated Press. “Before the video shoot took place, it appears the victim and suspect got involved in a verbal altercation. We don’t know what that altercation was about. The suspect produced a weapon, discharged that handgun one time, striking the victim in the chest,”
Although transported to Grady Memorial Hospital he was pronounced dead on arrival. While 13 to 20 people were believed to be in the building, naturally police have no suspects.
I’m all for hate. I encourage competition but brandishing a weapon to settle the score is wack. Jealousy has always been at the root of Hip Hop unfortunately. Its a culture spawned by the come up out the ghetto so naturally those left behind might be a little salty behind those departed. But in what part of the script does you taking out that fortunate individual help you? It doesn’t. I watch A&E’s The First 48 which details account after account of the exact same story rewritten billions of times. I don’t care if its the cat with the drug game on smash, the dude with the shorty with the ill Fat Back or the rapper with the promising career, every case starts with someone hating on that man and determined to not let him shine.
God has given us all this talent and opportunity and instead of cultivating it, examining what those before us have done and doing it better we must eliminate God’s gift. We are a “Remix” culture. That’s a culture of borrowing and flipping into something better. Why can’t we do that and have our own come up instead of taking the next man’s right to do the same? I could talk on this soapbox till I’m blue in the face. The ignorance of our people is still the same. Always will be.
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‘While 13 to 20 people were believed to be in the building, naturally police have no suspects’
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Once again, the snitch code defends evil at the cost of good.
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Over on my side of the world (DTW) we recently had an 8 and 10 year old arrested for an armed robbery of a classmate.
And I bet all of his classmates knew not to tattle. Snitches get stitches.
Here’s the original story.
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http://macombdaily.com/articles/2011/12/09/news/doc4ee22e9e9f934577183214.txt
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With the child poverty level over 50 percent, we all better be careful of the life-philosophy we are teaching our kids.
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Here in the D, we’ve had a rash of bank robberies, and just the other day a 1 night crime spree where the perps robbed 4 pizza restaurants in about 2 hours.
Stereo types don’t break themselves.
Hip-hop is the music of the have-not. The music of those who have been deprived of certain physical, mental and emotional commodities. And unfortunatly, once a person obtains these commodities that they once didn’t have e.g, affection, materialisitic goods, a sense of power, money, etc, there will always been someone on the sidelines questioning “why not them?”. And to paraphrase Jay-Z, the weight loss of those figures starts to darken the heart until its get to the liver. As that jealousy, envy, questioning progresses it changes a person, and depending on the values and ethic of a person, they may see may murder the solution. Not as a way to increase their own worth or potential per se, but as a way stop someone else from gaining more potential or perceivable worth.
Why do all rappers hands have to be permanently set to look like gang signs?
If you listen to rap, I doubt that you do, Listen to Lupe Fiasco’s “Food aand Liquor” and “The Cool”. Both albums he personifies the three attitudes “The Cool”, “The Game”, and the The Cool’s green eyed main lady “The Street”. Each character bears a certain influence on the other. The GAME is what people play in order to be considered COOL for the STREET. But you try to be COOL for the STREET so you play the GAME. It all intermingles… The hand signs are considered “cool” to some.
And these attitudes and actions don’t only pertain to urbanities or people of a certain race and class, but anyone who feels they have to justify themselves and their own self worth by being extravagantly grandiose.
Na, I’m old. I haven’t listened to rap since the days of cats like Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five. It’s a shame a symbol of violence is considered cool.
Or on the Right side of the news is the Tea Party Racist?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/jules-manson-obama_n_1161044.html?ref=politics
Has everyone read this link? If not, you’ll want to.
Sorry to bomb the thread. I agree that this is horrible. But rappers like Common, Talib Kali and Mos Def need more play time.
+3,000,000.. lol.
I have to agree with you Juan, this is jus’ another case of senseless violence, & it’ll probably go unsolved, jus’ like Tupac, Biggie, & Jam Master Jay…sad. PEACE!!!