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Who favorited?Lupe Says Hip-Hop Was A Factor in Derrion Albert Murder
by on November 5th, 2009
Since the recent homicide of Chicago High School honor roll student Derrion Albert, many rappers from Nas, Twista, T.I. and the latest is Chicago emcee Lupe Fiasco to weigh in and say that action needs to be taken as the aggression in the African-American community has increased.
While out in Chicago for a recent show, Chicago's 107.5 WGCI caught up with Lupe as he spoke out on the murder of the young teenager, "Hip-Hop should take some of the blame" said Lupe, and he also went on to say;
“Hip-Hop has to take some fault for that. Just in the fact that the amount of violence and the amount of negativity that's in Hip-Hop and the music, it attributes to so much that goes on, negatively, in the hood.”
As Lupe continued, he added that another issue is the fact that positivity is not promoted through media outlets such as the radio, as he said;
“It lacks entertainment value. It lacks a certain kind of hype around it. A certain “coolness” about it. So it doesn't fit on the radio.”
Lu also believes, as a positive artist that he has been able to rap outside of promoting drugs, sex, and violence, but he does believe he should be doing more.
“It's by example. I haven't been exercising my celebrity, in a sense, since I've been so laid back. I kinda feel like it's my fault because I should have been out there doing more. I have a message and a certain celebrity and certain popularity and I should be exercising that. Not saying that Rhyme ain't doing it. Not saying that Twista ain't doing it. It's just the more, the better.”
In other Lupe news, he will be dropping a new mixtape in the coming weeks, to try and secure a spot on the next MTV Hottest MC List.
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and these lil’ G’s think there the shit these days eh?
but main cause of death: ignant ass niggas tryin to be what they think is “hard” or “bein a grown ass man”.
-Lupe doesn’t have to be my father or my mentor.By the age of 13 you should be old enough to know what right and what wrong so, when you fuck up THAT’S ON YOU.
GROW THE FUCK UP KIDS.JEEZ
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you have no idea how easily influenced these 12-18 yr old black kids are in America…
These youngins hear plies talkin about GOONS and CHOPPERS all fuckin day and they really BELIEVE that shit…They BELIEVE that plies is out here shootin up peoples houses and shit like that…
They see Plies on TV talkin about Murkin season, and they say to themselves…“Hey Plies is cool right? Lets do what Plies does…”
These kids don’t have the intelligence to know that Plies is an ENTERTAINER..and the shit he says is like a movie…NOT REAL…
They don’t know that these niggas are not out here killing up everybody because if they were they WOULD BE IN JAIL…
Kids are dumb………Listen to songs like Murkin season, Bushes, and Me and My Goons, and tell me what a 16 yr old kid would think when they hear that?
Shiiiit, some of them songs be making ME wanna go and fuckin ROB somebody and I’m not even the type to be influenced by tv and shit like that…
Hell, I’m 23!!!! That music shit is POWERFUL kid!
we have all these dumb asses going around trying to be ‘cool’ and chasing acceptance so they are following whatever they are being told…all these faggot ‘rappers’ are bragging about drugs and guns and treating women like property and it spreads like wildfire amongst ignorant inner-city youth who are just looking for a way to escape the dismal reality of the non-stop struggling to where they may be no longer fucked with or screwed over…
thank you skeazaleo! thank you for thinking for yourself! keep posting man, we need some more enlightenment in the hip hop community…too many misled misinformed dumbasses spreading destructive messages
look at all the black violence and tell me these kids are not big into hip hop…i’m not saying people should be censored (that is the last thing we need), but i’m saying that these pieces of shit who are making millions by exploiting the struggles of people actually living that shit just spread the worst ideas…
and all the rappers who brag about selling drugs, and having guns, and most importantly, HAVING MORE THAN YOU, are more popular than ever…while all they are doing is perpetuating the self-obsessed culture of the rat race
peace brothas!
on this story – are lil wannabe thugs really going to listien to postive messages from artists ?? i hope so but i doubt it..
Twis is always doing something for the community, he recently dropped the S.O.S (“Save our Students”) mixtape and passed them out through-out the Chicago public schools.
Twis is always doing something positive
lol i bet you feel dumb now huh nigga?
Making gangsta ass music about popping off and being a ryder then turning around and saying save our kids is sorta like how Mobsters would kill people and sell drugs then turnaround and hand out turkeys in the community.lol
It’s doing something good to not look as bad.
but both You and Mr. Whitefolks have good points.
Lupe – Best in the game right now
Fahrenheit 1/15 – mixtape of the decade, cant wait on this new one.
It’s great to see he has those kind of motives outside of the music as well.
Lupe = the best rapper alive.
If you knew anything about poetry(or events going on in the world) you would know that no other rapper even incorporates as many poetic styles as he does or even the kind of lyrical acrobatics or social commentary. And he keeps it intellegent! Get real son. The only other rapper that fuses all that together is Nas.
So who are you gonna say? Weezy? Lloyd Banks? Game? Nigga don’t make me laugh.Anyone you name isn’t nearly as smart or creative.
if you compare some of nas’ so called positive records like ( i can ) with something really hardcore and violent like ( made u look ) you ’ll find out that the Negative record is more respected in hip hop
same with jay z ( example : Empire stat of mind << Lucifer )
eminem ( Just the two of us <<<<<<<< If i had )
x zibit ( thanq you <<< the fondation )
Immortal Technique ( leaving the past << Ben ladn )
Biggie ( Juicy <<<<<<<< Dead Wrong )
Big L ( His whole catalog <<<< Devil’s Son )
Sp ( My life <<<<<<<<< kill that faggot )
Dre ( nnothing but a g thing < The Day th niggaz took over )
Big pun (not a player <<<< leather face
So stop complaning about the violence of hip hop cuz Hip hop = violence
and violence is an entertaining thing , if u co sign Lupe than why the fuck r u saying that fat joe needs to make some of his old staff ?!! maybe cuz his old material was Raw as fuck , you see my point ? you love violence in hip hop and u criticize it at the same moment !
shits twisted now days. Thats what I always say
Hip Hop = VIOLENCE…..
and thats EXACTLY the point Lupe is trying to make…lol
Then as you see the “goons” hittin my man with bricks and shit…you hear DUMB NIGGAS in the background saying…“Damn they just knocked his ass out…lolol hahahaha”
you hear them niggas laughing and shit like it’s fuckin cool!
Now the boy is dead…for what? NOTHING!
so yea you right..these lil niggas are OUT OF FUCKIN CONTROL!
regardless of whats in the songs I still do my own but sometimes it hurts to hear how ppl talk about how bad its gotten
But me I dont think its hip-hop fault I think its the person
why?
Because they dont go out and try the stunts after they’ve watch an action movie
but these lil niggas RELATE to Plies…They RELATE to 50……..
They think plies is such a HOOD NIGGA, and thats what these youngins want to be…HOOD NIGGAS, and FELONS…
They don’t want to be action heros…
Not to forget that they are great writers and they will bring out any topic that will bring them more money
They dont have to change We got to change our perception of what GOOD MUSIC is
because believe it or not We are the one who made them Who they are right now
Moral of the story: WHOOP THE LIL NIGGAS ASS ONCE IN A WHILE TO REMIND HIM HE AINT SHIT IN THE REAL WORLD TILL HE GROWS UP!
How the fuck he gonna blame a whole music genre(being an artist in that genre) on some shit which happened because of some dumb ass niggas. And the retarded parents who raised them.
If these niggas was gettin their asses whooped when they was growin up they woulda known the time and realized that most of the faggot shit they listen to is fake. SHIT! It ain’t even only that, niggas prolly don’t even learn a shit in school.
If you eat a burger with rotten lettuce you wouldn’t blame the lettuce, you’d blame the fuck who made it for you and DAYUM KNOW THAT LETTUCE WAS ROTTEN!? FEEL ME?!
WHOOP THESE LIL NIGGAS ASSES.
Or at least thats what I plan to do to my children and when they wanna listen to some music I’m not gonna let them listen to shit from the radio, they’ll be listenin to the same g-shit as me.
The small community I live in proves this. it is a lower middle to upper class town there is no gangs here and no gang violence, most of the people of this city (concord NH) are upper middle class they have no reason to join a gang . but we have these wealthy white kids with caring parents that claim to be bloods and crips and do crimes just for the sake of doing crime .