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It’s one thing to be sent to prison and another thing to have the judge tell you that your music likely killed some of your own people in your own city. That’s the tongue lashing that the rapper BG received before being give 14 years in the slammer. Hip hop music is a good thing sometimes, but it’s not good now when it’s promoting gang violence and black men killing each other. If a judge on the bench can see this problem clearly, then why can’t we?
Reason4Rhymes.com tells more:
They say that the thug life doesn’t pay, but people don’t figure that out until they are paying the price themselves. This case is interesting, because the judge took the time to give a diatribe about how hip hop music videos contribute to the deaths of young black males in urban communities.
The rapper BG, formerly from Cash Money Records, has been given 14 years in prison after being convicted on two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of obstruction of justice.
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whatthewhat
July 27, 2012 at 2:46 pm
I don’t agree that Hip Hop is ruining our society. I say society is ruining our society. I remember as a kid television wasn’t as explicit as it is now. You would dare see s*x then as you do now on television. We weren’t worried about Jordans, Polo and Dooney. We went to church whether we wanted to or now. Our parents worked whether it was high paying our not. We may have had an uncle or 2 that were hustlers but they had on suits and you wouldn’t know unless you over heard the grown up talk. Now pimping, murder and drug dealing is basically what EVERY television show is about. Our children are being raised by television and society because that influence is greater than the parent right now. WE NEED TO CHANGE.
catherine
July 24, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Judge is wrong he stolen the young man life. Locking him up aren’t going to change a thing. And the judge know it. “14 years”? I pray this judge don’t ever get caught up or his own. Example are still filling the prison, and nothing is being taught,
Mark
July 24, 2012 at 2:06 pm
I see many positive comments here…..So let us get a national agenda and get to work on some of these ideas. What are ideas without works?
Ixon1
July 24, 2012 at 12:18 pm
People mimic the environment they grow up in. 1.Too many of our young people don’t have any real role models that show there is a better way then being a thug,murderer,drug dealer,psychopath or sociopath. 2.We bear the brunt of the responsibility because we as a community continue to encourage and allow this kind behavior by celebrating it. We are at a severe disadvantage because we are constantly demonized by the media as well. We do not seem interested in controlling our music. If we knew our history in the world we would have a sense of unity!! Until we put down or at least get control of our egos and learn that we have to work together to rid the airwaves of this kind of homicidal music.We throw our money at Lil Wayne,Jay-Z,Rick Ross and others that push this negative,violent insanity. the record labels,which we do not control,see the money that is made and they give us the music that they want us to have. The rapper BG knew full we consequences of his actions. He has no one to blame but himself. Our young people are killing each other at record rates and there is no outcry from national communities.
frank lamar
July 24, 2012 at 11:56 am
its not music its the community the parents etc…
white kids listen to the same music and watch the same movies that black kids do…education would let a child know that thats entertainment not real life….so if any one is to blame its US….
the black community
BigJay
July 23, 2012 at 1:09 am
We need to also blame the executives who are making millions on these young brother’s back. These executives know that these young black males are uneducated and ignorant to business. Most of these top executives have stock in the same prisons that are housing these rappers! We need to start taking responsibility for our communities as simple as that!
Gene
July 22, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Agree, I would like it if he would of gotten community service and talk and mentor young boys about this life and discourage them instead of sending him to jail. Prison is not helping our community out.
vince
July 22, 2012 at 9:17 pm
The reason why our black people are being miss lead is because they don’t know there history, the are not fully educated and if they do have a job and or trade the don’t have values to stick to them. The see the easy fast lane. But they don’t see the truth in that lane. They don’t see that is a dead end. There needs to be information available and taught to blacks about were there ancestors have been because blcks have came affar. Like the berber and the moors. Schools don’t teach that. So blacks don’t know were they’ve been so how do they know were to go.. we must first have values and education in order to over come. We must learn to work with each other instead of against each other. Its truelly time for the ignorance to stop.
markee
July 21, 2012 at 10:12 pm
looks like thier movies are killing thier own kind too ! lol “!!! and they call (it) a judge ????
Robert
July 21, 2012 at 2:13 am
Honestly,
I think that 14 years for the ‘crime’ of possessing a firearm is a sentence mostly reserved for Black men in America. especially the uppity kind like rappers or OJ Simpson . Prove me wrong how many Whites compared to people of color get charged with a misdemeanor for the same offense?
nellis
July 20, 2012 at 10:10 pm
My frustration as a retired educator is that many of our students aspired to become rappers. The desire for higher education supplanted by quick bling done by slinging rhymes.
Once it was to become basketball players ,now rappers. We must return to stressing education to our children. Since reconstruction, our community drilled into our children the importance of education. We must return to that emphasis.
radiah
July 20, 2012 at 8:48 pm
The judge is right! Hip Hop has DAMNNED this generation. Your parents and grandparents are rolling over in their graves with disgust.GET IT TOGETHER! Go to school get a job or trade
.Quit being a buffoon! Get on birth control and quit EMBARRASSING US!
nyblackatheist
July 20, 2012 at 8:12 pm
The judge blaming BG lyrics for crime ridden New Orleans is ridiculous. It seems like an excuse to give him a heavy sentence.Intergration,lack of knowledge of self,the war on drugs,the assassination of our leaders,are greater factors in the destruction of the Afrikaner mind.I hope BG turns into the next Malcolm. FREETHOUGHTHIPHOP.COM
Rodney
July 20, 2012 at 3:40 pm
I’d like to say that,all though Hip Hop has had a negative beginning- I see a sense of responsibility with the more prominent artist-and Black Fathers are being Fathers,especially young ones- stop stereotyping and see the positive- the rap videos still have our youth under the ether- they see pants saggin-tatts on the body- and try to duplicate the want to be thug-some don’t -we do have leaders not followers- parents be more conscious what your kids immolate- and if they’re under your roof- make them adhere to decency not conform to a fad-I’m just saying
Mr run it
July 20, 2012 at 9:31 am
(“dumbass derrick”)
where do you think your at right now? do you believe your defending black people and fighting white oppression?? by posting comments?? dude it seem you done lost your grip wit reality! when u press post comment it doesn’t effect anything in the real world! and if you cant differentiate between the two then that means u must done went crazy! dude i ask you to stop posting so many hatefilled comments because its so annoying it got people leaving the site! but some of the comments u left here made me see that you actually believe that u in some kind of battle with the world for justice on the COMMENT SECTION OF A WEBSITE ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! haha! h**l naw dude u done lost it!! ha! ha! ha! ha! fo real!! this ni–a thank he changing the world one comment at a time huh? ha! ha! ha! haha! i didn’t know it was dat easy-just press enter and you can change the world haha! u must got a magic keyboard-boy i cant imagine how sad a sorry u must be in real life
ceaser
July 19, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Its easy to blame BG for his crimes. However, the judge or people in our own community will not talk about the failures of absent black Fathers or black men whom have allowed the “white” agenda for the black community to prosper. BG is the overgrown product of his enviornment. I’m from New Orleans and I know the climate of crime, poverty and racism thats prevalent in louisiana. So, BG will due his time like the millions of other black men in the criminal justice system. But in the age of war and “cold war”; there are always consequences of our actions.
David2001
July 20, 2012 at 9:33 am
The main conversation I hear in black communities and the media is SOLELY about absentee black fathers. What’s usually not talked about are the black baby momma’s who are just as culpable for the lack of values and parenting. But at the end of the day as a grown black male he has to take responsibility for his actions. He may not have been given good values or parenting growing up but that’s no excuse. I’m certain he like many young black males who commit crimes know right from wrong. Whether he had a worthless black father/mother or not he is the blame for his own choices as an adult no one else.