Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather Explains Altercation With Rapper T.I.

[TLC8]

U earn the title for most idiotic post.. Good job

I'm sure it's tough to hear the truth about one of your own.

[IMDAZED]

one thing u should know is that 70% of the consumers of rap music are middle class white youth who have nothing in common with the lyrics they are listening to.. also, the violence in the hood has no connection to rap music, what you are witnessing are communities in drug/gang warfare, in the 70s-80s the violence was worse and rap wasn't heard of. rap music is now just a scapegoat for everything that was going on before it. its much easier to point fingers at rap instead of trying to address the real issue, which is poverty, mass incarceration, a public school system in horrible shape and that operates as a pipeline to prisons, and the deteriorated family unit, these things take effort and dedication to address and fix, but its easy to blame a rapper that way you ignore the real problem.

Thank you. I've read some incredibly dumb posts today from some ignorant ****s who should stay silent and learn something instead of commenting like they know what the heck they're talking about. This buffoon of a clown actually wrote that if the poor aren't being influenced by hip hop then why are their neighborhoods the way they are. Please remember to put that up for 2014 Dumbest Post of the Year.

[ßringer]

This may come as a shock to you but...those neighborhoods were poor before hip-hop existed.

Second, since all you wanted to be like was Snoop and Dre, I'm assuming you've shot at least one undercover cop?



70% of hip-hop albums are bought by white folks. So tell me, how do they emulate hip-hop artists?

If I can, allow me to play devil's advocate - Could that possibly have something to do with black youth being too poor to afford the album in the first place?

[kingfaze19]

And Floyd is every bit as much a fool, maybe even more so. Despite his own childhood, Floyd still acts as much a gangster and womanizer as every rapper in music. Just thugs.

how did Floyd act like a gangster when he was confronted by butthurt TI who shoulda been talking to his wife instead. he talked it out like a man and TI started swinging ..so how did he act like a thug.. a thug woulda left TI leaking right where he stood, stop using that thug word so lightly.

[IMDAZED]

If I can, allow me to play devil's advocate - Could that possibly have something to do with black youth being too poor to afford the album in the first place?

Even if they can or can't, my point stands. Those 70% aren't going out and killing people and they aren't the reason for poverty. It's just idiotic to assume hip-hop is the cause of that.

[Hallaqsillaq]

As a championship level boxer whose insanely rich? Of course. But do they look up to the chair tossing bar room brawling Floyd? Of course not. To assume such would make me believe someone is an ignoramus. I can't STAND when people judge an entire community they know nothing about just because they go on ****ing worldstar everyday.

Back about 15-16 yrs ago as a high schooler I argued that kids/youth growing up in an environment with clearly decaying social values (where the impact of the parents/traditional family figures is greatly reduced as a guiding/forming entity due foreign negative influences) would ultimately be swayed towards the values of the urban movement in general (in our case regaetton) because this is what they would be exposed to most of the time.

I was told I was mad. Out of line. Exaggerating.

It takes a person of great integrity and strength of character to rise above this, how many children/kids/adolescents out of 100 can truly step away from the negative influences of their friends? Of their social cliques?

I always saw the continuous exposure to the urban lifestyle, through the music etc. as corrosive and noxious and rejected it as being one of the catalysts for the loss of values of traditional PR culture and upbringing.

I can only tell you, and you may see a parallel here, that the PR I knew is no more. It is lost. I decided to leave the island last year, not only because it is truly turning into the Greece of the Caribbean, but because I could no longer feel safe there, anywhere. I take with me the values my grandparents and parents instilled in me, values that contrast greatly with whatever PR society has become lately. I can no longer identify with the values of the masses there, but I could as I was growing up in the 80's...

I do not believe the average person has the strength to reject and stand above social pressures. This can perhaps be seen as being a little arrogant, but I digress. Both you and Bringer drop truth bombs around here on the daily, but you may err in your judgement of exactly how many of those youths exposed to that music/subculture can completely reject its influence, especially when the influence of other traditional formative pillars in their communities is so greatly eroded.

Apologies for the wall of text, but this seemed like an interesting discussion to dive into...

[R_Walken]

Because kids look up to these idiots,, in reality they should be looking up to damon that started FUBU, Magic Johnson, The guy that started BET-i forgot his name...
There are tons of great black guys that are true role models on how to be successful and how to conduct yourself with class.. unfortunately most of the youth idolize idiots like floyd and TI

Can you imagine *****, oprah, denzel, ****e lee, getting into a fight at god damn Fatburger...

Your generalizing way too much, and it's not a good look.

Disagree about Robert Johnson founder of BET the guy turned BET into a modern day minstrel show, He's more responsible for promoting derogatory black stereo types then almost anyone. He held the power and he chose profit over leadership.

But you seems to value corporate wh0res who have got rich who didn't really stand for anything, explains why your such a fan of Oscar

[QballLobo]

The question going forward is if anything will come of this. Sounds like the employee who got hurt is not talking, maybe one of Mayweather's people offered some hush money before the cops got there.
If they pursue it though then I have to believe both guys are on some sort of probation with their recent jail stints. Without anyone involved coming forward with any facts though and the only thing to go off is a very unclear video they may just let it go...

[TLC8]

The absence of "mommy and daddy" in black homes is exaaggerated. Most black kids have someone in the home that's a good role model. If its not mom and/or dad, its a grandparent, aunt, uncle, or someone. Its not Floyd, TI, or any other public figure's job to raise kids that aren't their's.

Exaggerated??? That IS the problem idiot. Mommy & daddy are supposed to be raising their kids in a married, family environment. They aren't supposed to be raised by "some other good role model, like a grandmother, or an uncle or a cousin or a brother & sister". That's the problem clown . Many African Americans have daddy flown the coup, or in the klink, never knew daddy. Mommy is doing tricks out on the corner or dancing around a pole, of in rehab again. Floyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson are just high profile examples of African Americans with painful childhoods, later playing the same fool in life that was witnessed to them, no matter how much money they make later. I'm sure it's tough to hear as much about your favorite sport star or celebrity, but that doesn't make it not true. The examples are lengthy.

[KillaMane26]

Everytime something like this happens....it opens a big discussion that shows just how ****** and racist some of yall are.......SMH