Recently various gossip & celebrity websites have been rampantly pointing the finger @ Rick Ross for being a corrections officer before he was a rapper. This whole circus is really stupid though. Who cares what he did before he was a rapper? He made money doing that but decided there was more money in being a rapper. This isn’t the point of this one though.
There is a problem with us as a people…
I don’t agree with him lying about it once he was confronted with the allegations. I know he is denying it so hard because he doesn’t want to lose street credibility. In order to be a rapper you gotta “appeal” to the streets. What is this appeal? You have to talk about selling drugs. You have to talk about sleeping with a lot of women. You have to talk about having heaps of cash. You have to talk about killing people to protect what’s yours.
I’m gonna say this as nice as I can… fuck the streets! Who cares what a bunch of aimless, wastes of potential think about you? These rappers want to appeal to the streets & have them love them, but they forget about the bucket. What do I mean? The minute one crab, lobster, or whatever animal you prefer, gets too high; the others pull him or her down. It’s ALWAYS the same.
The streets do this because they don’t want their mediocrity to be exposed. The minute another person does something extraordinary the others get mad because it reveals how ordinary they are. Years pass & one has millions & is living a great life, while you have been on the “come up” for 10+ years. What are you doing???
Another problem is our perception of what’s cool, what’s acceptable, what’s black. What’s wrong with him being a corrections officer? He worked to help men become better, to give them discipline in hopes that they would turn their life around. The problem is we put too much faith in rappers, too much faith into celebs. We forget they are capable of living lies, cheating, murdering, being addicted to drugs, raping, anything… These rappers get their lives from movies like Carlito’s Way, Scarface, Belly, New Jack City, Blow, Sugar Hill, and anything else they can get their hands on. I mean think about the movies and how similar their lives are to it. Get outta here with that!
I never believe rappers anyway because what kind of idiot would say they killed someone, or make legitimate death threats to a nationwide audience knowing the police can hear it? It’s all entertainment, but not all entertainment is good entertainment.
Wake up…
**Fueled by passion, driven by pain before I die the world will know my name**
- JioVanni
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JioVanni, babes calm down, don't pop no blood vessel over it!LOL I hear you tho. Thats why I cut back on who I listen to cause alot of them never live the life except for a few small exceptions. I'll listen to Kanye,Lupa,Commen and old school anyday before I listen to whats out now. Somebody's card bound to get pulled, dudes just trying to be to hard, my thing is be real from the get up. I must say if I was the old me I would proberly did what Ricky Ross did even though I lived part of the life I would have added a little more to make more money. In the end the streets gonna be the streets and alot of black folks gonna do what they want and say what they want, and most will never realize the true motive of this industry is MONEY!!
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Yea. I used to be a big 50 Cent fan, but the older & smarter I became I realized he was fake. I remember all the death threats & talkin bout his people he beefed with were "green lighted" yet they all are still alive. I listen to those artists & a lot of underground acts too. I'm pumpin some Joell Ortiz right now though!
The music industry is so treacherous though. They'll take a person with talent & turn him or her into a cash cow & sex symbol rather than a symbol for something good. That's why the best thing for an up & coming artist to do is garner their own buzz, start their own label & build their own empire & not let the big biz take all their money.
Thank you for the comment!
- JioVanni
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