Why do we like yelling at people through our phones?
In my last post, I talked about how flexing and self-snitching are damaging the black community beyond repair. However, an online beef (if you can even call it that) between a gangsta rapper and a YouTube blogger has sparked me to write a follow-up post about something I think rivals flexing for the main problems that are holding our community back.
A rapper by the name of Casanova 2x has recently been sending very passive aggressive threats towards DJ Akademiks, a blogger who happens to make opinionated youtube videos. I would love to reference the tweets/Instagram posts, but a lot of them have already been deleted. Which would be smart if not for the fact that the internet remembers everything and the internet also know how to screenshot. To get the full context of the situation, I will point you to Akademiks video explaining the situation, since he screenshotted the tweets/IG posts before Casanova was able to delete them
In that video, Akademiks makes a point that gave me the inspiration to write this post. Casanova claims that Akademiks puts out everybody's personal business for everyone to see and it leads to a lot of men getting in trouble. Akademiks counterpoint is twofold: the first point is that he does not put out any information that the rappers themselves does not put out. The second point is that Akademiks is not gangsta and isn't really intimidated by the threats since he WILL snitch if something was to happen to him.
Heres the problem with rappers. Rappers will show themselves doing something that they probably should not be doing, and then get mad when the blogs report on it. I talked about this in my last post related to Meek Mill. If you do not want to suffer consequences for doing something you should not do, you simply should not put it out there for all your fans (and law enforcement) to see. It's not a hard concept. It shows that most of these rappers actually care far too much about the opinion of the fans and they get very sensitive when someone does not talk about you in a favorable way all the time. Furthermore, even if the blogs reporting on it blow it up more than it normally does, it still doesn’t take away from the fact that if you did not publish it yourself, there would be nothing to report on to get you in trouble…it's very backward thinking that kind of exposes the intelligence level of these so-called gangsta rappers.
Which leads me to the second point. Gangsta rappers, regardless of the age, are as dumb as ever. Since the advent of social media, so many rappers seem more and more compelled to talk about how gangsta they are online to people they never met (and never will meet) and how they will do something to someone to get a few likes on their Instagram video. Which leads to them being the main suspect if something does go down….Attacking a media personality online does not give you points with anyone that is actually gangsta and doing crimes. On the topic of gangsta points, let's take a deeper look at Casanova himself.
Many people have told me in my lifetime that real gangster individuals move in silence and more importantly, Real G's don’t get caught. Casanova has been caught. Multiple times. That’s not exactly a gangsta to me, just a dumb criminal. So as an individual that is one unlucky run-in with the hip-hop police away from a lengthy bid in jail, you would think that someone in that kind of position would not be so brash and public with potentially committing a crime. Also, just cause you are off of parole means that you are now free to commit crimes, you are still a felon, my guy.
I'll never understand why people that are supposed to be the toughest dudes feel the need to threaten people online other than that they have no other way to deal with criticism or someone saying unfavorable things they might not like other than to resort to violence, then to delete it. Behavior like this only leads to two things: jail time or death. When outsiders (not black people) look at these gangster rappers, there's already a myriad of stereotypes to choose from to dismiss us all as black people. Constantly threatening each other both in the real world and on social media continues to reinforce these stereotypes and keep us from worrying about issues that really matter because we are all too busy watching grown men yell into their phones all day.