Why does it seem like Hip-Hop exclusively has this problem?

In no other genre of music have I heard of so many prospective and talented artists alike being murdered.  I mean, rock music has some violent lyrics too, rockers are known for doing drugs too, how come they aren't in as much danger as a rapper of getting shot?

I think it's because we continue to try to hybridize and make thug culture synonymous with hip-hop culture, so we create people who feel they have to be aggressive and violent to be successful as a rapper.  The media does nothing to help this, they try to make us as a group of people loving a culture look like savages and low-lifes.  But hip-hop as self doesn't always help itself either, what other genre do you know that was founded on battling other fellow artists?  Ignorance on the part of everyone is to blame I believe, rap is the music and hip-hop is the culture, that's all, it doesn't denote anything about one's intelligence, aggressiveness, inclination to crime, etc.

It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. TallicaFan2005

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. SunJian18

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. SunJian18

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

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[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. xArKKAAaEX

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

Exactly, but it seems in today's entertainment industy, in order for a rapper to make it they need to be into that kind of thing, that or sell out into that stuff.

BET has literally banned a rap video by the group Little Brother for being "too intelligent".  It's as if they WANT to keep the hip-hop community dumb when you hear things like that.

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[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. TallicaFan2005

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

Well when a part of an industry requires joining a gang to be "cool" you're bound to have issues.DrummerJon

Yeah, because in the rapper contract you must sign, you are mandated to be in a gang...

[QUOTE="DrummerJon"]Well when a part of an industry requires joining a gang to be "cool" you're bound to have issues.SunJian18

Yeah, because in the rapper contract you must sign, you are mandated to be in a gang...

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[QUOTE="DrummerJon"]Well when a part of an industry requires joining a gang to be "cool" you're bound to have issues.Def_Jef88

Yeah, because in the rapper contract you must sign, you are mandated to be in a gang...

:lol:

Yeah, they're like 2000 years old but they're still spring geese in the sack!

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[QUOTE="DrummerJon"]Well when a part of an industry requires joining a gang to be "cool" you're bound to have issues.SunJian18

Yeah, because in the rapper contract you must sign, you are mandated to be in a gang...

:lol:

Yeah, they're like 2000 years old but they're still spring geese in the sack!

[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. SunJian18

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

"Heinous crimes help records sell more than creative rhymes" -NaS

That's why. Alot of  rappers feel they need to have this thug image to sell records, and that ends up making them pay the price.

Proof was shot and killed. Pac shot and killed. Biggie shot and killed. They, to some, were the epitome of the so called 'gansta' image. But what about John lennon? Jam Master Jay? Marvin Gaye?bigdcstile

Scott La Rock too... He was killed for pretty much no reason.

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[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. en-z-io

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

Okay, that's 2, you could make a list of probably a dozen rappers or more who got shot the past year.

[QUOTE="bigdcstile"]Proof was shot and killed. Pac shot and killed. Biggie shot and killed. They, to some, were the epitome of the so called 'gansta' image. But what about John lennon? Jam Master Jay? Marvin Gaye?familyguy77

Scott La Rock too... He was killed for pretty much no reason.

One of the saddest for me was Big L, because he stopped living that life and rapped about going legit and such after his first album "Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous".  And after he was killed you hear these rhymes on The Big Picture.  He was supposedly shot for being mistaken for his brother, and his brother was killed too later.

cause it's gansta foo'

John Lennon was totally gangsta'
jrhawk42

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[QUOTE="bigdcstile"]Proof was shot and killed. Pac shot and killed. Biggie shot and killed. They, to some, were the epitome of the so called 'gansta' image. But what about John lennon? Jam Master Jay? Marvin Gaye?SunJian18

Scott La Rock too... He was killed for pretty much no reason.

One of the saddest for me was Big L, because he stopped living that life and rapped about going legit and such after his first album "Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous".  And after he was killed you hear these rhymes on The Big Picture.  He was supposedly shot for being mistaken for his brother, and his brother was killed too later.

Big L's murder was really sad, I agree. He gets shot on the same block he spent most of his life on, and it was a case of mistaken identity to boot:(

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[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. SunJian18

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

Okay, that's 2, you could make a list of probably a dozen rappers or more who got shot the past year.

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[QUOTE="TallicaFan2005"]It's not so much with hip hop. Most of the people being murdered are in poverty, and usually black. I don't think music has anything to do with it. bigdcstile

But you don't hear about many black R&B singers or Jazz musicians getting shot...

Okay, that's 2, you could make a list of probably a dozen rappers or more who got shot the past year.

Like I said, a dozen.

Every music genre has its problems, look at black metal, its been known that most black metal bands has been involve with church burnings and such, maybe other bands too but not sure.

because rappers are blackxArKKAAaEX

[QUOTE="xArKKAAaEX"]because rappers are blackKingJustinII

I'm about to put the "That's Racist" kid back in my sig too...

listen to some hip-hop/rap songs, usually the songs are talking about one of four subjects or some combined: money, sex, violence, drugs. i hope this helpedhalfnaked

[QUOTE="halfnaked"]listen to some hip-hop/rap songs, usually the songs are talking about one of four subjects or some combined: money, sex, violence, drugs. i hope this helpedbigdcstile

[QUOTE="bigdcstile"][QUOTE="halfnaked"]listen to some hip-hop/rap songs, usually the songs are talking about one of four subjects or some combined: money, sex, violence, drugs. i hope this helpedhalfnaked

because rappers are blackxArKKAAaEX