Also I am not glorifying growing up in the hood and selling crack to make it but see people like Ron Artest that are products of Queens, 5th Ward, at Watts had to do what they had to do to get buy. They have now since left that life behind and are successful. See they didn't have everything handed to them so they had to man up and take it.
Derailing the thread. Give me a break with the "do what they had to do" nonsense. There are very few instances where that applies to life and growing up in the ghetto selling dope isn't and never will be one of them. People that grow up the right way under adverse conditions are the one's that "man up", not the gang bangers and dope slangers. If anything the one's that did that took the easy way out by taking advantage of the people in their own community.
Go Read a book, okay. I will. From pimpstick to pulpit is a very good read. Fat Pat got shot over some drug money. Different deal.
No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. Is he still cooking up crack and serving fiends, NO! I am pretty sure you regret some things you have done in your life. All I am saying is this, Ron was dealt a tough hand but he worked through it now he is an upstanding citizen that gives back to poor kids.
what makes me sad is that I wish Tupac was still alive. He'd have front row seats and Ron and Pac would have shaken hands too.
LOL maybe so. Tupac was great. He was more than a rapper. He had so many positive messages in his music.
Oh the irony...talking about "street cred" on an internet message board. This thread is hilarious. Seems tinman has brought out a whole new demographic of Clutchfans.
you are terribly misinformed. What are you gonna tell me next? Pat's brother Hawk was run over by some reindeer? some of the stuff you are saying I tend to agree with, but the other spewage is so far off.....hard to take you seriously.
Maxwell was a huge Tupac fan. he talks about it in this book: http://januarymagazine.com/nonfiction/keepinit.html Keepin' It Real: A Turbulent Season at a Crossroads with the NBA By Larry Platt
To be honest I don't know why they killed those two S.U.C. members. What I was told Fat Pat was over some dice and drugs. I could be wrong. Landlord why did they murk them?
thanks, this thread has turned into a hip hop education thread. I thank Ron Artest for keeping his promise about bringing culture here. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3512419 "I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto," Artest said, according to the report. "That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrD-Yp3a-dY&feature=related I think Ron has too much street cred for 2pac.
Man, I hate when I hear people say "bling or bling bling on tv"...That crap was never really in style....lil wayne made that one song, and the word bling went out of style as soon as the song did
"Keeping it REAL" : the most loosely defined, exaggerated, make it up as you go subjective way of being EVER. It means everything and means absolutely nothing at the same time. Most people seem to miss the point. But then most people dont even know what the original point of the saying was to begin with. Being that 70% of rap music is bought by white people, (doesnt mean 70% of whites like rap, just 70% of rap buyers are white), thats especially true.
