Also why isn't this stickied but y'all had some semi obscure YouTube rappers death stickied a couple days after pnb rock died

nigga shut up my god

edit: i will say rip tho i aint mean it like that, im just indifferent

whattt

RIP man

in the 2020s, the streets and rap are intersecting too much for my liking tbh

Damn RIP

So f***ed bro. Rip fr

damnnn wtf rip

Your comment did come off kinda whack tho bro you gotta admit

Anyways, RIP to shawty she ain’t deserve to go out like this smh streets are ruthless

i think it's a pretty callous thing to reply to someone's death with "at least we got this track" and no condolences... i'm not trying to come at you or judge you in any way but this is a whole human life that was lost man

it's not the 2020s this is what and where rap music came from, marginalized poor black people in the bronx. it's not the "streets and rap" intersecting bro this is necessarily where hip-hop comes from, violence and hip-hop come from the same thing, one doesn't cause the other. the only way to stop the violence is to stop the poverty and racism that created both

You a detective?

Eh. Sure but there’s never been a time where we see rappers dying almost weekly. There’s also never been a time where hip hop and the streets are as intertwined as it is now.

yes ofc rap comes from the streets, what he said wasn't well-phrased, but he means that rappers themselves seem to be getting killed (being intersected by "the streets;" an admittedly clumsy synecdoche) at an unprecedentedly high clip

and since poverty and violence and marginalization have been a part of hip-hop for the last 49 years and counting, there must be a different and novel reason for the (perceived) record high incidence of rapper murder

more rappers are dying because more rappers are famous than ever, we have the internet

it could be that rappers just seem to be getting murdered because hip-hop is a more famous genre than ever and also people can be more widely known at a lower level of "actual fame" bc of technological advances

social media makes everyone more accessible and also makes way more people famous, wealth inequality is also at a high rn

to be clear poor people and black people have been dying as a result of poverty and racism (respectively) for as long as this country has existed, we just know way more people now so we know more of the victims. even before when less rappers we knew were dying, people were still dying and being jailed just more were anonymous

damn we just said the same thing at the same time lol but yeah i think its this

A good chunk does have something to do with poverty tho.

certainly if lottacash desto (no offense to her, but she's undeniably not a big artist) died in a drive by twenty years ago, we wouldn't all be able to know about it within four hours of the shooting

exactly i was basically saying this but i didn't know how to phrase it respectfully cause obviously that doesn't diminish her art nor value as a person

RIP. S*** getting spooky man

Rip 🙏🏾

Why is this titled "Uzi's artist"? Uzi don't got a label

no, ofc, the inherent value of her life and work is completely divorced from the objective matter of how more mutually extensive modern social and technological networks can disseminate more and more types of information further and more quickly with every passing year

i just use her passing (or more specifically, this thread about it) as an example of how it will seem like rappers die more often when there are more avenues for more underground rappers dying to become nationally known news items

Gave him his best verse in a decade too rip

R.I.P.