With the recent of shootings in the Eminem camp, it brings out alot of arguments of these incidents just following Rappers around and stuff like that. Well alot of it is Stereotyping but then again thing like the Sopranos are stereotyping a whole race of people too. One thing i have learned is that Stereotypes no matter how bad, hurtful, almost always come from Truth. Now what U have to worry about is the person that is using the stereotype and if they are coming from a racial view. Recently I was watching a METS game and being a long time MET fan its said that 20 years after their World Series, Dwight Gooden is in Jail serving time. I listened to Keith Hernandez who obviously KNOWS him well talk about how its all about Lifestyle, how DWIGHT always felt he had to stay with his old friends and they were the ones that did him in. Now Keith was no saint either, he did coke in the Early 80's, but he never ran with the people dealing it. I think thats where alot of these issues are coming from, I know for a fact that some rappers, and im talking the ones that the Labels and MTV push, tend to hire the guys from their streets what labels and MTV never look into is what message that puts forward, kids today see it as a badge of honor to do time. BET made a special about LIL KIM going to jail, i mean come on now, when will the tide turn and something positive get put forward. Maybe when a Rapper is jailed, maybe the Label and MTV should be hit seriously too with fines, trust me, if u hit them in the pocket it will hurt more.

I have said it about 50 times on the org and I will say it again...Im a black man !!! and I CANT STAND NI#@A´S !!!!! no matter what color they are..

It´s a strange phenomenon....when I was growing up listening to rap music, it was all about positivity, anti-drugs, working hard and making it, even though some of those rappers didn´t practice what they preached the whole vibe was still very positive. Afrika Bambaataa´s Zulu nation Movement was strictly anti-violence, anti-drugs.

It all changed after 1987.