Hoodie Up - movement or hipster propaganda?

First off let me say this- Nothing is going to excuse this dude fro murdering Trayvon Martin at all so before I get the angry pro-black crowd attacking me. You see because this isn't about him or George Zimmerman in as much as it is about our reaction as a people and a culture in hip-hop. You see racism still rears its ugly head but it isn't as pervasive and wide reaching as it once was even

Why Rhymefest is better than David Banner

I actually should have touched on this before, but Rhymefest is a Chicago rapper who also has a decent education and is very politically active and motivated. David Banner, talks a lot of shit all the time about how things need to change, is college educated, yet whenever he is asked about taking a leadership role, ducks away from the pressure.



Rhymefest however, whose real name is Che Smith,

T.I. = Pac ?

So T.I. apparently is the latest artist to try and compare himself to Pac (a topic I have to get started on really soon). This is going to be a comparison and attempt to answer if that really makes sense. So first let's look at the arrest records.

Pac is a controversial figure, whose attitude almost started riots at points throughout his career but the first major arrest altercation was in