Good afternoon my wonderful family of M2, we have another Hot sunny day here in Americas oldest city, Philadelphia, low 91, this make me want to go to the Jersey Shore go body boarding in the ocean....lol.
Shouts out this week to " Ms. Harmony", " GreenEyes148", " CireTom"," TxsGal3333", & " Tom4Uhere", " FunkyJunkie". Those are my loyal " Vocal Avengers" & I always have room in my Cyber Mansion you new opinionates. Okay, lets move on, America, when you hear the word rap, what comes in mind? Is art & creativity? Is it a bunch of noise to you? Or are you a strong supporter of rap? Lately, we read the papers, watch the news, & even follow social media on rappers dying mysteriously & violently. The murders of Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Houston's rapper Pimp-C, just to name a few. America, what's going on? I mean it just seems that hip hop artist today don't have any long jeopardy. Whats your thinking? what do you think why rap artist today dying more than any genre of music. I know the truth behind it but I want to know who's the closes?

Remember- all replies will be answered back

Puck that! I didn't make your list I guess I'm not vocal enough eh?


Rap artists are a bunch of criminal, drug pushing, panzy azzed biotches with no talent that breed violence in everything they do.

There, vocal enough for ya?

Johnn111,

Welcome to my Cyber Home , do worry next" Hot Tea Topic" you will be added . those the ones no matter what I post they follow my topics and voice. Okay how you feel about the senseless violence that seems to centers around rap music?

EyeAmYourHost39,

Well, my take on the senseless violence & shootings around the culture of rap to me is by design. America , every generation has that genre that the last gen. will always criticize. During the 50's Street Corner Acapella singing in effect. Then the 60's rolled with Rock N Roll, last gen would call it hippy music, long haired long beard, flowers in your hair marijuana smoking music. Then the 70's rolled in with Disco. Disco scared the heck out of middle America call it sexual, flamboyant, and even there was a anti disco campaign organized the Rockers at that time. In the last year of the 70's when Disco was murdered, it was another musical force emerging out the hardcore streets of the Bronx, New York better known as hip hop & rap was born. Back then hip hop was the music that represent hip hop. Rap was something you did but hip hop was something you lived. Rappers back then wasn't getting the shine they needed until hip hop made it big and once white kids in the suburbs started to listen & buy the music , then it became mainstream rap. People don't want to talk about it but you know me I'm the voice of truth.....see rap through out the years went through many transitions. There was your party rap. then it was your socially conscious rap. Then later you got your gangsta rap. then from gangsta rap unto now you young trap music, mainstream , gender fluid rap today. Even back then in the 80's if you follow rap, it was unheard of that a rapper would get shot & gunned down over nothing. That was extremely rare. It never hardly happens. Today, rappers seem to be hits of death, America, don't you think that's odd? these rappers get killed but they never catch the killers? I don't know what you think America?

I believe that even though producers and the big money makers are trying hard to sell certain 'images', that the truly successful rappers are the ones that come across as speaking from genuine experience

it is that genuine experience with hardships that makes them more of a target for those who wish to shut them up,, rather in the music industry, or just in society at large...

I am not a fan of most mainstream rap that seems to really only be mass marketed when it promotes mindless partying, sex, and materialism

but I do enjoy the conscious rap that pops up now and again,,,,

Ms. Harmony,

Hey Mommy, well I agree I hate the new mainstream rap. I think rap is very impressionable. Kids between 14 to 24 will gravitate to the music because in there mind rap represents where they come from & its being used to as a get out the hood meal ticket. My beef with mainstream rap is the negativity that comes along with rap today. when I was coming up in the 80's hip hop was fun. it was conscious. Hip Hop gave you a spell, you felt in through the energy chakras of the body. Rap like " Cold Crush Bros.", " Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five", Sugar Hill Gang" & few others was positive. you didn't hear any pioneers being gun down the way rapper today is.

EyeAmYourHost39,

I personally think on a higher scale rappers get murdered for two of my best theories. Number one, I think with the change of times violence grew at a all time high and it seems to be a random act of violence. Then its theory number 2, I honestly think rappers getting shot & killed is a blood sacrifice for somebody. America, have you ever notice when a celebrity goes out in death somebody comes up afterwards. Or Maybe its a civil war within the Americas they want to start up by melanin folks hoping to incite a race war by making black people so angry that it will ignite a war. Or its a random act of violence all together!

When more of the rap crowd begin their own labels and production companies, that will evolve. As long as they are 'under the employ' of others they will be used to put out the 'image' that sells, which happens to be the one where all they care about is partying and obtaining material goods.

No worries, we're good mate, I really do prefer to stay off any lists lol




MsH, Why would anyone be a target for death for having lived hardships in life? That makes no sense to me.

You underestimate the involvement of rappers in the illicit drug trade or you're ignoring it altogether?

2pac and Biggie... West coast VS East coast drug dealing gangs vying for influence. Simple as that!

Increasingly angry versions of "Wheels on the bus go round and round."

Repetition and rhyme are best suited for children.
They can't get enough of it.


Seeing as pretty much anything can be called "art" and gotten away with as being "creative," from fingerpainting, to yodeling, to taxidermy...yes...it's art and creativity.
My niece colored in a picture of a farting dog. I think I might frame it.


Most things are a bunch of noise to me anymore.
I spent some time in Mexico and caught the affliction from some old guy.
Maybe that was just H. Pylori.


I'm not that strong of supporter of anything a lot of people like to tell themselves is "art" or music.


How old are the newspapers, news shows, and social media sites where Tupac, B.I.G., and Pimp-C reported being murdered is considered "lately?"


I don't know.
Is that all the rage on myspace and aol IM?


I don't know.
Are they rappers being killed for being rappers?
Or are they dudes living a certain way, that gets them killed, and oh by the way they're rappers?
Are they being shot by "fans?" Rap competitors? Or people from their family, past?
If they weren't rappers...how likely would they have been shot at some point anyway?

What is the population of rappers?
Are there shootings of other entertainers and "artists" in other genres that aren't pushed into the headlines?
Is there a dairy queen nearby?

John111,

Hey Buddy thanks for stopping by and voicing, well I read your responses and it was some key words i want to share. Well i agree when you say in spite life's hardships you don't have to go down the road of selling drugs. But unfortunately theres young men in low class to pure poverty that think that there only way out the ghetto is selling drugs, be a rapper, or a basketball player.

CireTom,

Welcome back to my cyber mansion, well just to give you a few key words okay Rap the real definition mean to use words in a sentence to end the last word to rhyme.

Hip Hop means its what you live by, the lifestyle, its the music (Rap) that represents hip hop.

Cire my friend i don't know if you ever followed hip hop but back in the 80's hip hop was totally different. and we certainly was dying behind it either.

i look at the papers as i read young men & women are dying behind music. Then when that east coast west coast beef started it was so stupid to me.

remember how the cia messed with Bob Marley?? I don't listen to rap much anymore... will still listen to a tribe called quest, earlier Eminem, geto boys, and the list goes on...ok maybe i do still listen a bit lol..if u don't think rap is an art then google busta rhymes 60 second assassin...

37KO,

Welcome back well I agree, mainstream rap sometimes attract violence. not all but a good number. that east coast west coast riff was so damn ignorant and I'm glad it dead. think about it can you image Linkin Park would have beef with Korn...? sounds ridicules right. Just like you I only listen to the classic underground. I don't care for this new school stuff.

37KO,

Welcome back well I agree, mainstream rap sometimes attract violence. not all but a good number. that east coast west coast riff was so damn ignorant and I'm glad it dead. think about it can you image Linkin Park would have beef with Korn...? sounds ridicules right. Just like you I only listen to the classic underground. I don't care for this new school stuff.

e.g right now macklemore, kendrick lamar, chance the rapper and lots of other artiste

to be honest with you rock music goes hand in hand with drug use, i get it that you might not like rap but the truth that everybody forgets is that artistes are not supposed to be role models. secondly, they are reflecting their environment in their own unique way. thirdly, music is art, rock,rap, hîp-hop,pop, blues name it they are all art forms and the thing about art is that it is expression.
let's imagine that da vinci and van gogh and picasso all use the same style to paint, then what is the essence?

Ciretom

how many has been killed directly by another rapper? it is not a rap thing to get shot, it is an American thing

MarkJacobsen,

Hey sorry I'm just getting back to you. I almost forgot I posted a rap topic like this. Okay see back the 70's in The Bronx New York, black & Spanish kids needed a outlet to showcase music poetry. It was underground for years until the outsiders took an interest in the lifestyle & the music. Fast Forward to today, the music of rap is nowhere as authentic as yester years. Rap today content is way negative, exploiting women, racism, sexist, and creatively just suck. see when my era of hip hop was around it was all about fun. Rocking a party with 1 mic & a deejay, and the party people. I also observed the music today is a lot more demonic as well. The devil always was part of music but today its all about the wackiest things we thought was bad is now the new trend to be wack. feel me. but no one wasn't dying over the raps I grew up on. that was a rare back then.