Another Rapper Was Killed, But People Don’t Care
I’m getting real sick of this nonsense
Just as consistently as a clock ticking on the wall, another rapper died to soon. I’m very sorry to say that a rapper out of the west coast by the name of Drakeo (pronounced Drake-O) the Ruler was stabbed in the neck during a fight in Los Angeles and met his maker a little bit early. First of all, I send my sincerest condolences to his family. Now I heard his name pop up and then — I never really really checked out his music. I saw some people on Twitter when his name was trending saying that he was very talented and his music was good. I can tell you, at the stage that I’m at with the things that I saw, I’ve just kind of seen this before. This is a story that I’ve seen played out a thousand times and it just makes me sad. You have to understand — and I talked about this before in my past articles — Black death is profitable. Dead rappers, unfortunately, have become all too common. Last year, about 200 rappers died last year. I couldn’t believe this when I saw the statistic and these are mostly Black men that are going down.
Now just to give you guys a little background on this brother, Drakeo the Ruler was born in 1993, he recently turned 28-years-old on December 1st, he died on December 19th. He was an American rapper and songwriter based out of LA. He was best known for his unique flow as well as his oddly expressive poetic word choices leaving the LA Times to call him “the most original west-coast stylist in decades.” That’s a hell of a compliment. He was about to perform at the “Once Upon a Time in LA” featuring other artists such as Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, YG, and Ice Cube. He was about to perform when he got into an altercation with someone and he got stabbed in the neck. There’s the R.I.P. and condolences to everyone affected. The brother was active as an artist, he did some time in jail but that’s nothing to hold against him. A lot of our Black men have gone to jail. If you are a Black person, I’m sure you have relatives that have been incarcerated so I don’t think that’s a reason to write them off, but it is a reason to write Joe Biden off if you ask me. I don’t know how y’all feel, but I refuse to vote for somebody who systematically locked over a million Black people up. So it makes no sense to see so many negroes out here begging to support this guy. I just shows how weak you are. That, honestly, shows how disrespected we are because we don’t stand up for anything. They do come in and took away a million of Black men, locked them up, and you still locking for forgiveness. They got that Jesus virus — and I’m not saying Jesus is bad, my mom loves Jesus, but damn, c’mon man. Are you forreal? You have to have some form of self-respect at some point.
So anyway, we this brother, Drakeo the Ruler, his situation was predictable. Damn near every week, at least one rapper across the country is going to die some kind of way. This is going to continue for a very long time and they’re typically going to be taken out in a culture that was started mostly in the early 90s, about the time Drakeo was born — so he was born into this. About 1991, 1992, is about when hip-hop became real deadly for Black men. It became a real terrible industry to be in. You had in the 80s a lot of drugs that the CIA was putting in Black communities with the deliberate effort to destroy Black families. The drug culture has taken over the music and music spreads like a psychological virus. Music is the most influential thing in the Black community. The white supremacist knew that, took advantage of the music industry, and used it to their advantage to poison the minds of Black people to commit self-genocide. Think about it, what are the topics that rappers talk about: murdering Black men, drugs, disrespecting Black women, and mass consumption (blowing your money). And what’s worse, is that many, if not all of us, have become immune to seeing Black people die that you don’t think it’s a bad thing. You just say you R.I.P. and keep it moving.
So I will end this with a simple question: When are we as Black people going to say “enough is enough” with this self-destructive nonsense known as “gangster rap?”
Black men are dying. Black women are dying. Black children are dying.
One more thing that I forgot to add, if you go to the CDC website, you will see that homicide is the fourth leading cause of death for Black males. Sad.
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