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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

Lockdown, USA

I guess with all the money they make everyday whoring out images of smut, guns and violence to the children, rappers inexplicably feel a need to engage in some sort of political, community-based purpose, as if it’ll provide a balance to all the shit they talk about. During the days of “Self-Destruction” and “We’re All In The Same Gang,” it looked as if rappers actually gave a shit about the community. I mean, where else could you see MC Hammer and Ice-T in the same video together? Nowadays, it just looks like rappers are just creating “charity organizations” for fuck’s sake, which are obviously nothing more than a front for tax deductibles come Mid-April. It’s pretty obvious that Diddy cared about an eighth of a shit about increasing the so-called hip-hop vote (whatever that means) if those same peoples weren’t buying one of his crappy “Vote Or Die” t-shirts, but whatever.

I never believed for a second that today’s top-selling rappers and industry “big wigs” are actually willing to give back to the same consumers who are responsible for putting them up in their ridiculously expensive mansions. They probably assume that by throwing out a shitload of turkeys and presents throughout the hood during the holiday season, they’ll give the impression that – while they have no qualms about squirting on a nappy-headed hoe’s face - they still care about the children of the ghettos. Tupac may have been able to pull that shit off, but Jim Jones? Not so much.

Speaking of Pepé Le Pew, alongside disappointing the masses (including yours truly) this week by not appearing on the radio to air out the rift between freshly demoted Dip Set soldier Cam’Ron and himself, Jim has taken to the Internets and released a video in protest against the fabled Rockefeller Drug Laws. For those that do not know what those are, the laws essentially mandate long incarceration sentences to those caught in possession of even the most minimal of drugs[1].  For the past couple years the likes of Russell Simmons and Benjamin Chavis[2] have used their OG TI influence to convince the New York government to make changes to the penalties. While I will admit that getting a life sentence for selling a bag of dope was a little extreme, I find it odd that the same rappers who claim they’re “uplifting the youth” by passing out toys on Christmas are also against the same laws designed to keep that poison away from them. Not only is it contradicting[3], but it’s flat-out retarded for anybody to take them seriously. The stupid thing about these new law provisions is that many of these jackasses who are currently fending off meat burglars in Rikers end up having shorter jail sentences, and thus will be released back into the city to presumably sell more crack[4].

This is obviously a ploy for rappers to gain some sort of street credibility not unlike getting shot, which is pretty foolish. It’s perfectly fine for rappers to ether themselves or their piff pocketers, but when they inadvertently fuck up their own community by pulling dumb shit like this, that’s just wrong on so many levels.

[1] There’s obviously some sort of preferential treatment for some, as rappers get caught with the shit almost every day, yet receive nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

[2] Like anybody really gives a shit about those two anymore.

[3] Hip-hop has always functioned on contradiction. You have to be stupid, however, if you actually believe that Rick Ross still pushes keys.

[4] Anybody who believes that selling drugs is the only way the provide for their family deserve to get locked up. I’m just saying.

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