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I'm old and totally ignorant about rap music, but what is it about Laurian Feb 2013 #1
Agree. I don't get it either. longship Feb 2013 #2
But they yell at you in a beautiful and harmonious manner. kentauros Feb 2013 #20
I love opera too. Beacool Feb 2013 #41
Recitative can be very nice, though. longship Feb 2013 #44
Oh, I got no problem with recitative. Beacool Feb 2013 #45
It's great. longship Feb 2013 #46
Great singers all of them. Beacool Feb 2013 #48
Agreed. Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #51
I like both, actually Warpy Feb 2013 #77
Rap comes mostly from inner-cities... Archae Feb 2013 #3
Sounds like Scorsese's filmography alcibiades_mystery Feb 2013 #27
Can you imagine Martin Scorsese committing a drive-by? Freddie Stubbs Feb 2013 #37
No, and I can't imagine Jay-Z or Method Man or Rakim or Kendrick Lamar or KRS-1 committing one alcibiades_mystery Feb 2013 #39
Exactly. Beacool Feb 2013 #42
yep, sucks when hoodlums make something of themselves... snooper2 Feb 2013 #53
Chivalry Ash_F Feb 2013 #4
Yep. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #50
Here, this might help... Ian David Feb 2013 #8
No comment other than to say that callous taoboy Feb 2013 #18
Go trap a wild mountain lion in a corner and start beating it with a stick... Larry Ogg Feb 2013 #21
Right. All kids who grow up in the ghetto choose to go gangsta. Got it. callous taoboy Feb 2013 #31
Wrong! Try not seeing everything as being black and white. Larry Ogg Feb 2013 #34
You say pretty concretely that the ghetto traps young people. Really? All young people? callous taoboy Feb 2013 #35
The man was a PIMP! FrodosPet Feb 2013 #70
Worship of gang culture, hanging around with kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #11
Bingo. Insanely stupid. callous taoboy Feb 2013 #19
You got the order of event wrong most start in Gangs and many use rap to get out of the game Exultant Democracy Feb 2013 #33
Think of the hiphop nation as one where ANY kind of crime is a capital crime rocktivity Feb 2013 #14
Rick Ross was also sued over his stage name in 2010 RZM Feb 2013 #29
The Gangster Disciples use the six-pointed star as part of their logo rocktivity Feb 2013 #32
Gang culture is intertwined with segments of the rap culture hack89 Feb 2013 #22
they are not fake fucks brought up by Disneyland to fill your afternoon drive hour? snooper2 Feb 2013 #54
So what you appear to be saying bitchkitty Feb 2013 #58
This had nothing to do with rap music Nevernose Feb 2013 #63
rap is c-r-a-p triplepoint Feb 2013 #5
This incident seems to have killed people not Laurian Feb 2013 #6
Nobody on DU cares about them slackmaster Feb 2013 #30
If you dislike DU so much why do you stick around? Seriously, I've seen you trash apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #74
Years ago when I moved to Vegas, kiva Feb 2013 #7
here's Kenny Clutch and apparently the Maserati involved in the shooting rollin74 Feb 2013 #9
This megalomaniac shit sucks more than my Dyson. callous taoboy Feb 2013 #17
The comments on that video thread jzodda Feb 2013 #57
one more case of assault gun violence mwrguy Feb 2013 #10
How long before they catch the shooter? mokawanis Feb 2013 #12
I'm certain the LVPD will assign an army of detectives to the case Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #23
Why the sarcasm? kiva Feb 2013 #24
Well, like the mafia killings of yesteryear that another poster already mentioned Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #25
The mob owned the casinos, kiva Feb 2013 #36
Somehow I doubt the NRA will claim this could've been prevented by arming all rappers Adenoid_Hynkel Feb 2013 #13
Message auto-removed cantilever Feb 2013 #38
When I heard about the crash, I said it was probably a rapper; I was thinking back on this news: lexw Feb 2013 #15
yup. Diyames Feb 2013 #16
Read it many times. :) lexw Feb 2013 #40
What a shame to ruin a perfectly good Rolls. Beacool Feb 2013 #43
they couldn't ID the shooters car "black Range Rover " from security video? Sunlei Feb 2013 #26
I've never heard of him slackmaster Feb 2013 #28
Taxi passenger killed on the Las Vegas Strip identified Bosonic Feb 2013 #47
Thank you for calling attention to the tragic death of Sandi and two others. classof56 Feb 2013 #55
If he was only an "up and coming" rapper, where did he get the Maserati money? rocktivity Feb 2013 #49
SUV, suspect identified in shooting that led to death of Oakland rapper Kenny Clutch rocktivity Feb 2013 #52
DING DING DING! Rocktivity, you're our grand prize winner! rocktivity Feb 2013 #56
The rapper was a pimp????? Beacool Feb 2013 #61
He wasn't sufficiently successful as a rapper to afford the kind of car he was driving slackmaster Feb 2013 #62
Thanks for the explanation. Beacool Feb 2013 #64
Police seek woman as 'person of interest' in Strip shooting rocktivity Feb 2013 #59
This story had legs and keeps on walking .... kwassa Feb 2013 #60
Woman sought in Strip shooting found, confirms 'I'm fine' on Instagram rocktivity Feb 2013 #65
(Las Vegas) shooting suspect who bragged about life as a pimp now on the run rocktivity Feb 2013 #66
Las Vegas shooting suspect has been arrested in L.A. rollin74 Feb 2013 #67
Family members still mourning expressed relief that Harris was arrested rocktivity Feb 2013 #68
We really need to be easy on the guy FrodosPet Feb 2013 #69
Arrest report details Las Vegas Strip shooting rocktivity Feb 2013 #71
The father is not liable for the crimes of the son. kwassa Feb 2013 #72
If he funneled his son's "income" into the "real estate investments" rocktivity Feb 2013 #73
The temptation at this stage will be to blame the *real* victim here: the precious gun. apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #75
Original Gangsta Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno Just to watch Him Die graham4anything Feb 2013 #76
Reno is 453 miles from Vegas .. kwassa Mar 2013 #78
UPDATE: Ammar Harris convicted, sentenced to death rocktivity Nov 2015 #79
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