Anything You Want To Tell Us Busta?

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It’s time to start snitchin’.

So here’s how my brain works… I basically don’t believe anyone unless I have known them for a significant amount of time, and then I know what to believe when it comes out their mouth. People are liars. It is part of the human condition. The other part of the human condition is for us to believe in liars. We lionize the people that boast. Christianity had to become a religion only after Jesus was merc’ked. Why? Because he would have slapped the shit out of you for not believing in GOD. That attitude inspired others to place him above GOD.

What’s my point? Most of you kids have grown up listening to nothing but rap music all of your lives. You have let rapper lyrics inform you on everything from how to dress, what to say from your mouth, how to act in public and where to spend your money. Rappers have essentially curated your lifestyle. I find it amusing that some of you are surprised that T.I. would have cooperated with the authorities when he was arrested for possessing illegal firearms. That nigger is an actor you dumb bitches. He is not some poorly educated street dude who was destined to be in a penitentiary. T.I. comes from a background of private schools and hardworking parents who set him up to achieve.

The fact that he was able to assume the acting role of a hardened street thug is a compliment to his acting ability. The same as Jay-Z or NaS or anyone else who can delicately hold a microphone to their lips but acts like they spend their off hours putting fools in headlocks. Everyone except TrickTrick that is. The rest of these dudes, and I mean all of them, are actors. Fifty Cent and Ja Rule are both from the same acting class in Hollis Queens. Killer Mike, Andre3000 and Big Gipp can all represent Shakespeare as well as Donald Goines material. Ice Cube said ‘Burn Hollywood’ and he is as big a movie star as almost anyone who ever held a mic. Excluding Will Smith, of course.

So now T.I. sits in a courthouse and he describes the night his close friend was killed and some of you act like he is breaking a code of honor. You must be fucking kidding yourselves. Do you think any of you could have been arrested with the firearms that he had and still been under house arrest? All of us that aren’t actors and movie stars would have been buried under a prison. Instead T.I. was allowed to sit around his home and continue to make YouTubes and record music and fuck bitches (I think, but don’t quote me on that last one). This man wasn’t going to cooling his heels in any jail like the rest of us regular dudes. This is the same treatment that other actors receive. One of the requirements of acting is that you are at least a dry snitch.

I want Busta Rhymes to come clean and take the stand for his deceased homey. No one fucks with Busta for his street credibilty. We fuck with Busta because he gets busy on tracks that make us want to shake our ass. He spits fire over music that has that bounce appeal. Not because he is some hardbody thug nigga telling us about the cold, cold streets. I wouldn’t want to hear that spit from Busta anyhoo. He has made a career from being high energy. I’m not trying to put this man in a box, but that is the only thing he has done that has worked for him. Now that we all know that rappers are simply actors perpetrating facades of machismo or whatever it is time for them to start snitching. They don’t have to tell the stories of ribaldry and amorality that they have participated in but they certainly need to speak on the situations that have caused the deaths of friends and fans.

It’s time to put the deaths of Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Big L, Israel Ramirez, Jam Master Jay, Mac Dre, Johnny Cash, Stack Bundles and whoever else was acting while gangster rapping to closure. These people didn’t deserve to die because of the form of entertainment they chose espouses death and destruction. Okay, maybe Notorious did.

17 Responses to “Anything You Want To Tell Us Busta?”

  1. P-Matik says:

    Man, Busta isn’t clearing the air because he knows if he does someone will come and air his ass out. He ain’t honoring no code, he’s just shook.

    It’s disgusting what negroes will do today to sell 500 records and smash herpes laden cooch.

  2. Marvelous Mo says:

    I interviewed T.I. @ atlantic this yr while he was promoting paper trail.

    “ME: When you were going through your legal issues, people might have looked at you and assumed you weren’t affected by it…

    T.I.: What do you mean?

    ME: Not to say you put on a persona, but a lot of times rappers put on a persona that they’re invincible, and if they do get caught into trouble, nothing will happen to them because it doesn’t bother them.

    T.I.: Oh yeah?

    ME: Yeah. So my question to you is how did you deal with that?

    T.I.: I didn’t. It doesn’t matter what they think, what matters is the truth. My grandma used to always say “Leave the thinking to the smart people.” They can think what they want to think. I know how serious I took my situation. That’s between me, God, and the government (laughs). I don’t have to put up no front to seem hard or to look cool, nor do I have to show an extra amount of sorrow, pain, or grief to seem remorseful. I’m just being me, you know? Doing what I feel is right and what I feel is right is to take every necessary precaution and make the proper adjustments, lift my head up, hold my chest out, accept responsibility for my poor judgment, and do what I got to do to move forward. All the other stuff is irrelevant.

    ME: What do you think about the accusations that imply you walked away from your charges without serious repercussion because you snitched to the Feds?

    T.I.: (huffs) If that was the case, then it would have been out there. That’s what they would have said. They would have said “Well we did this for him because he did this for us.” It wouldn’t be a secret. If there was such a thing as a secret snitch, we wouldn’t need a witness protection program.

    ME: You just inked a deal with 8 Ball and MJG to your Grand Hustle label. Tell us more about Grand Hustle’s movement and what we should be expecting to come from the label.”

    Right…

  3. Dart_Adams says:

    The greatest snitch evar was Emmit Till’s great uncle. He sat in the chair in a 1955 Mississippi court room and when asked to identify the man who took and then killed his grandson he pointed right at him and said:

    Thar he © Moses Wright

    Everyone told him NOT to testify. He sesnt his family members away on a train to Chicago. He stayed and testified.

    If HE wasn’t scared, an old 5’3″ 125 pound Black man in the 50’s in the Mississippi Delta then what excuse do any of us have?

    One.

  4. Marvelous Mo says:

    ^^^
    Dart, that was real shit. Money is the route to of all evil though. Niggas aren’t testifying because it would mess up their paper…

    I wouldn’t mention image so much because most rappers are coon ass niggas anyway. Cut their check the right way and they will do whatever you want them to.

  5. boi-dan says:

    If you sell yourself to the public as a person who follows the laws of the street, then the public will hold you to that.

    How many young men went to jail to the tune of TI’s lyrics?

  6. some guy says:

    you had me until the johnny cash reference…

  7. Combat Jack says:

    Great post!

  8. 911 says:

    Proper respect.

  9. Incilin says:

    Good post. You make a lot of good points, but the thing for me is I don’t care who you are or what your about. THe only thing that matter to me is if the music is hot. If your drug dealer, aite that cool. If your rasied middle class and want to rap about flowers, that’s cool too. And if you just want to rap on some non sensical shit, even that’s fine. But please, just be yourself. Don’t pretend to be a gangsta is you really aint one.

  10. some guy says:

    oh you were talking about johnny cash a.k.a the fast gunna…

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  12. grendel says:

    I thought this was about Busta coming clean on being the GAY RAPPER.

    Woo-Ha!

  13. Grand Master says:

    ^ co-sign grendel, that was my expectation too… but hten you took it there, good commentary

  14. The article was spot on fam. I just had this convo with a number of ppl right after Bernie Mac died, referring to his 1st stand on Def Comedy Jam when he said he would “snitch” in a heartbeat if his freedom was at stake. Self-preservation is the 1st law of mankind. But how many ppl have been “aired out” for nothing relating to snitching? Thousands. Probably millions! Threat of violence is the same way that the REAL mafias and mobs have “promoted” not snitching. Its called INTIMIDATION. ANd if ur gonna be INTIMIDATED by someone over anything, then that is YOUR breaking point, stand up and be counted. What I am more tired of is the assumption, or “industry” stance that these “actors” are worthy of loyalty, dedication, protection, etc because of some cultural oath we (Black people) are supposed to have with criminals in our community! I know we all got our dirt, but if u get busted, its on YOU to find a way to get out of it. Bottom line! I dont hold no ill will against anyone for putting their physical freedom above everybody else’s expectations.

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