Tell me why rappers got shot but other singers not?

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Packerjohn

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I love music and have been listening to it since Johnny Cash sang about "shooting that man in Reno, just to watch him die." I like most music. Just can't stand the loud noise of heavy metal and I can't stand rape music.

My question is how come every few weeks the news reports that another rapper has been shot. Over the 70 years that I have been listening to country and pop music, very few, if any singers have been shot but when it comes to those rappers, they seem to have a very short life span. How come they get shot? Is it because of the nature of their "music?" Is it because they are black? Is it because they do drugs? Is it because they hang around with the wrong type of crowd?

I often wonder about this? What do you think the answer is? No one ever shot Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson nor Elvis Presley but if you are a rapper, it seems someone is out there to get you? Just curious!

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It has been said that Rap and Hip Hop music evolved from thug life in high impact drug infested impoverished neighborhoods. Dealing drugs makes impoverished youth feeling that whatever they attempt fails so they sell crack for approximately 12 hours daily walking away with 2K in cash tax free. Production companies, phantom investors collaborating with money launderers through shell companies and entertainment promoters exploited that lucrative cash cow by penning the inner city youths despair to music and everybody including the singers themselves involved in promoting Rap and Hip Hop culture made 1,000 times more money weekly then everybody involved in crack cocaine sales alone made in a year.

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Sam Cooke got shot. Snif.

I think the world around rap music probably takes them to some pretty wild places.

It was wild around my generation's music (Woodstock,) but there was still a message of peace in lots of the lyrics. Sadly lots of those musicians died of drug overdoses.
 
Terry Kath ā€” the guitar player and singer of the original band Chicago ā€” shot himself, albeit accidently. He thought his semi-automatic handgun wasn't loaded because its magazine was empty, so he put it to his temple and pulled the trigger. Surprise, surprise... there was a round in the chamber. Ooops.

Al Jackson, Jr., the drummer for Booker "T" and the MGs, I believe was shot by his girlfriend for cheating on her.

There have been quite a few suicides by musicians where they used guns.

But I agree with the OP that rap/hip-hop music is violent. They often sing about all the gun violence in their neighborhoods that's part of the culture.
 
Their culture is basically disenfranchised from a wage society. Most families are on federal assiastance and live in very poor conditions. There are burned out buildings and cars, and homeless bums every block. The youth get together and eventually have a choice between getting into a gang or trying to stay out of that mess...and some do. Once in a gang you become reponsible for your territory. In that territory you control the drug trade. That includes guns which are very important to fight these turf wars. Many of the "mass" shootings are gang related.
 
Della said:
Sam Cooke got shot. Snif.

I think the world around rap music probably takes them to some pretty wild places.

It was wild around my generation's music (Woodstock,) but there was still a message of peace in lots of the lyrics. Sadly lots of those musicians died of drug overdoses.
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So did Marvin Gaye. :cry: Snoop Doggy Dogg is still alive, I think and so is Kid Rock. I'm not a fan of rap either so I don't really follow it.
 
Packerjohn said:
I love music and have been listening to it since Johnny Cash sang about "shooting that man in Reno, just to watch him die." I like most music. Just can't stand the loud noise of heavy metal and I can't stand rape music.

My question is how come every few weeks the news reports that another rapper has been shot. Over the 70 years that I have been listening to country and pop music, very few, if any singers have been shot but when it comes to those rappers, they seem to have a very short life span. How come they get shot? Is it because of the nature of their "music?" Is it because they are black? Is it because they do drugs? Is it because they hang around with the wrong type of crowd?

I often wonder about this? What do you think the answer is? No one ever shot Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson nor Elvis Presley but if you are a rapper, it seems someone is out there to get you? Just curious!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sidhu-moose-wala-dead-1.6470189
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I think it's their Thug lifestyle.
For some reason, they all try to live up to their dead "Hero" 2PAC
 
Geezer Garage said:
Often gang related, or possibly some people like there music even less than I do.
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I must be mistaken. I always thought that music meant singing. Apparently with rap it seems to be talking and swearing. I just don't get it. I cringe at the thought of Johnny Cash doing "Folsom Prison Blues" in rap. How about Hank Williams doing "Jambalaya" in rap. Maybe Elvis could have done "Heartbreak Hotel" in rap but I am very glad he never tried.
 
Packerjohn, as many rappers are (or were in recent past), the rappers you mentioned were active gang members at the time of their murders, and some rival gang had beef with them.

This is why so many successful rappers travel with several body guards, keep an arsenal of weapons in their luxury cars and limos, and have their tailors include hidden holsters in their custom clothing.
 
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He, he! I hear you loud and clear, FlaSkyEye: I too like Mantovani. Also, Roberto Delgado, James Last and even those nice classical pieces by Chopin, etc. Like, I said, no one every tried to kill Mantovani or James Last but those rappers really seem to have a short life span. I guess what goes around comes around!
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I am a staunch Boston Pops kind of guy. Show tunes also.

Enjoy:


Roberto Delgado:


James Last:


Frederic Chopin:

 
timoc said:
My idea of torture is being locked in a room and having to listen to 'rap' or 'heavy metal' so called music.................where's my Mantovani LP, I can feel a headache coming on? šŸ˜Š
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Back in the sixties, I pretended to enjoy the youth culture bands that became known world wide because teenagers like to fit in with their peers. In my room at home though, I played my big band collection from the 30's, 40's and into the 50's. Much prefer "Sway" by Dean Martin, than "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley.
As for Rap & Heavy Metal, never even heard it. My Jukebox would leave home if it had to play such.
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