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

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

Cops and Hip-Hop part 2...

Now since we already know that there are no positive images of cops in hip-hop music, what if any urban music do police listen to? If you're a young black man, and you're just leaving the police academy I'm pretty sure you have listened to some hip-hop. Now I'm pretty sure you might be fine when you listen to a Mos Def or a Talib Kweli or any of the West Coast artists who are against police

Cops and Hip-Hop part 1...

Look this isn't anything new. In Hip-hop culture, cops are the enemy and breaking the law is just the way to survive, those are the rules ya dig. but honestly, not every cop is bad, just like not every person is good. So to classify every police officer as another 'pig' that needs to die is stupid to me. Now to call everyone in the hood a loser and throw them all in jail is just as wrong.



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