NaS’ baby mama only wishes she had more to sell tell…
I will assume that most of you found the time to see 60 Minutes absurd report of the “Stop Snitching Culture” that seems to be pervasive within the disenfranchised center city communities. I call the report absurd because that is where you should file the information – theater of the absurd. Media outlets, acting like sharks sensing blood, have begun their multi-tiered attack on Hip-Hop by positing that the notion of criminal acceptability begins from the mouths of rappers. There is plenty of nonsence that rappers do perpetuate on a daily basis and the least of which I will consider is the idea that cooperating with police is a crime against the ‘hood.
In fact, that idea begins and ends inside of police precincts that have used tactics such as ‘Hell Night’ to wage a war of terror on poor communities since whenever supremacy wants to. The truth is this… From the time of bootlegging alcohol to illegal numbers up until the narcotics epidemics, the police have been an important conduit to perpetuating and regulating these illicit trades. LARRY DAVIS was almost assassinated when he decided that he would no longer be a street level dealer for the Bronx police precinct that ran his neighborhood. It is a police force that monitors these narcotics traffickers that has the center city residents in fear.
These police were allowed to kick in the door of an elderly women named ELEANOR BUMPURS and shoot her to death all because she filed a telephone complaint against harassing drug dealers in her housing project. This is the reason that the ‘hood has been told to stop snitching. Because nothing, but nothing, is going to be allowed to fuck up the police’s money machine. BTW, you won’t ever see something this real on ‘The Wire’.
Snitching is certainly admonished in rap music today, but is actually practiced quite often by some of the genre’s most prolific personalities.
It looks to me like these artists have been reading this website more than they would like to admit…
*Shouts to BOL for some of the above links
