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Thu Feb 21, 2013, 10:33 PM

Laurian (1,156 posts)

1. I'm old and totally ignorant about rap music, but what is it about

the artists or the industry that leads to so many violent deaths?

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78 replies	Author	Time	Post
Rapper Kenny Clutch killed in Las Vegas shooting [View all]	kwassa	Feb 2013	OP
I'm old and totally ignorant about rap music, but what is it about	Laurian	Feb 2013	#1
Agree. I don't get it either.	longship	Feb 2013	#2
But they yell at you in a beautiful and harmonious manner.	kentauros	Feb 2013	#20
I love opera too.	Beacool	Feb 2013	#41
Recitative can be very nice, though.	longship	Feb 2013	#44
Oh, I got no problem with recitative.	Beacool	Feb 2013	#45
It's great.	longship	Feb 2013	#46
Great singers all of them.	Beacool	Feb 2013	#48
Agreed.	Sekhmets Daughter	Feb 2013	#51
I like both, actually	Warpy	Feb 2013	#77
Rap comes mostly from inner-cities...	Archae	Feb 2013	#3
Sounds like Scorsese's filmography	alcibiades_mystery	Feb 2013	#27
Can you imagine Martin Scorsese committing a drive-by?	Freddie Stubbs	Feb 2013	#37
No, and I can't imagine Jay-Z or Method Man or Rakim or Kendrick Lamar or KRS-1 committing one	alcibiades_mystery	Feb 2013	#39
Exactly.	Beacool	Feb 2013	#42
yep, sucks when hoodlums make something of themselves...	snooper2	Feb 2013	#53
Chivalry	Ash_F	Feb 2013	#4
Yep. (nt)	Posteritatis	Feb 2013	#50
Here, this might help...	Ian David	Feb 2013	#8
No comment other than to say that	callous taoboy	Feb 2013	#18
Go trap a wild mountain lion in a corner and start beating it with a stick...	Larry Ogg	Feb 2013	#21
Right. All kids who grow up in the ghetto choose to go gangsta. Got it.	callous taoboy	Feb 2013	#31
Wrong! Try not seeing everything as being black and white.	Larry Ogg	Feb 2013	#34
You say pretty concretely that the ghetto traps young people. Really? All young people?	callous taoboy	Feb 2013	#35
The man was a PIMP!	FrodosPet	Feb 2013	#70
Worship of gang culture, hanging around with	kestrel91316	Feb 2013	#11
Bingo. Insanely stupid.	callous taoboy	Feb 2013	#19
You got the order of event wrong most start in Gangs and many use rap to get out of the game	Exultant Democracy	Feb 2013	#33
Think of hiphop as a nation where ANY kind of crime is a capital crime	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#14
Rick Ross was also sued over his stage name in 2010	RZM	Feb 2013	#29
The Gangster Disciples use the six-pointed star as part of their logo	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#32
Gang culture is intertwined with segments of the rap culture	hack89	Feb 2013	#22
they are not fake fucks brought up by Disneyland to fill your afternoon drive hour?	snooper2	Feb 2013	#54
So what you appear to be saying	bitchkitty	Feb 2013	#58
This had nothing to do with rap music	Nevernose	Feb 2013	#63
rap is c-r-a-p	triplepoint	Feb 2013	#5
This incident seems to have killed people not	Laurian	Feb 2013	#6
Nobody on DU cares about them	slackmaster	Feb 2013	#30
If you dislike DU so much why do you stick around? Seriously, I've seen you trash	apocalypsehow	Feb 2013	#74
Years ago when I moved to Vegas,	kiva	Feb 2013	#7
here's Kenny Clutch and apparently the Maserati involved in the shooting	rollin74	Feb 2013	#9
This megalomaniac shit sucks more than my Dyson.	callous taoboy	Feb 2013	#17
The comments on that video thread	jzodda	Feb 2013	#57
one more case of assault gun violence	mwrguy	Feb 2013	#10
How long before they catch the shooter?	mokawanis	Feb 2013	#12
I'm certain the LVPD will assign an army of detectives to the case	Blue_Tires	Feb 2013	#23
Why the sarcasm?	kiva	Feb 2013	#24
Well, like the mafia killings of yesteryear that another poster already mentioned	Blue_Tires	Feb 2013	#25
The mob owned the casinos,	kiva	Feb 2013	#36
Somehow I doubt the NRA will claim this could've been prevented by arming all rappers	Adenoid_Hynkel	Feb 2013	#13
Message auto-removed	cantilever	Feb 2013	#38
When I heard about the crash, I said it was probably a rapper; I was thinking back on this news:	lexw	Feb 2013	#15
yup.	Diyames	Feb 2013	#16
Read it many times. :)	lexw	Feb 2013	#40
What a shame to ruin a perfectly good Rolls.	Beacool	Feb 2013	#43
they couldn't ID the shooters car "black Range Rover " from security video?	Sunlei	Feb 2013	#26
I've never heard of him	slackmaster	Feb 2013	#28
Taxi passenger killed on the Las Vegas Strip identified	Bosonic	Feb 2013	#47
Thank you for calling attention to the tragic death of Sandi and two others.	classof56	Feb 2013	#55
If he was only an "up and coming" rapper, where did he get the Maserati money?	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#49
SUV, suspect identified in shooting that led to death of Oakland rapper Kenny Clutch	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#52
DING DING DING! Rocktivity, you're our grand prize winner!	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#56
The rapper was a pimp?????	Beacool	Feb 2013	#61
He wasn't sufficiently successful as a rapper to afford the kind of car he was driving	slackmaster	Feb 2013	#62
Thanks for the explanation.	Beacool	Feb 2013	#64
Police seek woman as 'person of interest' in Strip shooting	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#59
This story had legs and keeps on walking ....	kwassa	Feb 2013	#60
Woman sought in Strip shooting found, confirms 'I'm fine' on Instagram	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#65
(Las Vegas) shooting suspect who bragged about life as a pimp now on the run	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#66
Las Vegas shooting suspect has been arrested in L.A.	rollin74	Feb 2013	#67
Family members still mourning expressed relief that Harris was arrested	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#68
We really need to be easy on the guy	FrodosPet	Feb 2013	#69
Arrest report details Las Vegas Strip shooting	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#71
The father is not liable for the crimes of the son.	kwassa	Feb 2013	#72
If he helped turn his son's "income" into the "real estate investments"	rocktivity	Feb 2013	#73
The temptation at this stage will be to blame the real victim here: the precious gun.	apocalypsehow	Feb 2013	#75
Original Gangsta Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno Just to watch Him Die	graham4anything	Feb 2013	#76
Reno is 453 miles from Vegas ..	kwassa	Feb 2013	#78

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