The black community needs to look in the mirror

[Enayze]

There are no black owned labels. Game and the other rappers rap according to a formula and to an audience. Supply and demand. Its marketing.

You seen game on the tv show before he was famous? He was a stripper in some club. Ive never known a gansta stripper.

Or how about 50cent "You can find me in the club, hand full of bub..."

50's own words - HE DOES NOT DRINK OR SMOKE. He has only been drunk once or twice in his life. Google it.

He raps to a market...

Who owns Aftermath, Def Jam, Cash Money Records, No Limit?

[i_am_a_champ]

Who owns Aftermath, Def Jam, Cash Money Records, No Limit?

Aftermath is founded by doc dre but is owned by interscope and is part of the universal music group.

All those labels have the parent company Universal Music Group, ceo is Lucian Grange or Steve Barnett. Im not sure.

Both aint black.

Universal Music Group own them all.

[Jc8804]

Im not black

You dony need to be.
It was a point being made.

Fix the culture , fix the problem.

[SterlingStained]

Who owns Aftermath, Def Jam, Cash Money Records, No Limit?

those are all for show.

none of these rappers really own their record label. they are owned by the you know who oligarchy and they just let these rappers slap their record label name for ego purposes.

almost all of these rappers dont really own record labels.

[Enayze]

Aftermath is founded by doc dre but is owned by interscope and is part of the universal music group.

All those labels have the parent company Universal Music Group, ceo is Lucian Grange or Steve Barnett. Im not sure.

Both aint black.

Universal Music Group own them all.

All the labels I mentioned are black owned, whether they have a parent company or not is irrelevant. Does Universal Music Group tell them who they can or cant sign? Does it dictate what type of lyrics the rappers could put out? It doesn't mingle in the affairs of rappers and what they want to speak about, and that was the original point of the argument. What it does is get a cut of the musicians work for helping to market the said musician.

In anycase Rhymesayers Entertainment, doesn't have a parent company, and they have some pretty well known names under their belt.

[i_am_a_champ]

All the labels I mentioned are black owned, whether they have a parent company or not is irrelevant. Does Universal Music Group tell them who they can or cant sign? Does it dictate what type of lyrics the rappers could put out? It doesn't mingle in the affairs of rappers and what they want to speak about, and that was the original point of the argument. What it does is get a cut of the musicians work for helping to market the said musician.

In anycase Rhymesayers Entertainment, doesn't have a parent company, and they have some pretty well known names under their belt.

**** off ur dumb as ****

[Enayze]

**** off ur dumb as ****

I am sorry I don't subscribe to your dumba$$ conspiracy theories. I'll let you get back to your bilderberg illuminati videos, enjoy the kool aid.

[Larry the boss]

You should go to the black communities with a megaphone and say that only way it's going to work



Post and keep us updated good luck brother

I agree...............

[Death_Adder]

Where are the BLM people to defend this scumbag? He dinnu do nuffins

Chicago Gang Member Sentenced for Fatally Shooting Pregnant Teen as She Begged for Her Life

A Chicago gang member will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after he killed a pregnant teenage girl in 2011, firing on her multiple times as she reportedly pleaded for mercy, PEOPLE has confirmed.

Timothy Jones was sentenced this week to 90 years in prison after he was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the August 2011 shooting death of Charinez Jefferson, then 17, prosecutors said in a news release.

Jones, 23, was sentenced Monday in Cook County, a court clerk representative tells PEOPLE. Jones' defense attorney, Kevin Sterk, tells PEOPLE they are planning an appeal and that he believes it was "physically impossible" for his client to have been the shooter.

Prosecutors say Jones fired on Jefferson multiple times, on Aug. 16, 2011, after he saw her with a friend of her's, who was a member of Jones' rival gang.

Jones fired on Jefferson's male friend but missed and he ran away, prosecutors say. Then he started shooting Jefferson, who was seven months pregnant.

"She kept begging for her life, and he still shot her," witness Romell VanTrease said last year, according to the Chicago Tribune. "She begged for her life ... said, 'I'm pregnant.' " (Prosecutors said Jones was angry because in the preceding 24 hours, approximately, he had been injured in a separate shooting, according to the Tribune.)

Jones swore at Jefferson as he fired, and kept firing after she fell to the ground, according to the Tribune, which cited prosecutors. She was seven months pregnant.

Jefferson did not survive the shooting, but her son, Kahmani, did – though the now 5-year-old remains "fully incapacitated" with little hope of recovery, prosecutors say.

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The Victim's Mother Speaks Out in Court

Jefferson's mom, Debbie, cared for Kahmani since Charinez's death, even as she was urged to remove him from life support, she told the Tribune in 2014.

"I couldn't see turning the machine off on him. Who am I to judge whether he lives or dies, okay?" she said. "I was just grateful that he's still here."

Debbie died from cancer earlier this year, according to the Tribune, but not before she wrote an impact statement for Jones' sentencing.

It was read by a prosecutor in court Monday, according to the paper.

In it, Debbie said she "had to find a way in my heart to forgive you ... I had to let go of anger, resentment, bitterness and hatred."

"I watched you during the trial and you showed no remorse. So maybe you wouldn't know how I feel," Debbie wrote. "From this day forward, when you open and close your mouth and eyes, and you are still able to walk and talk, stop and take a minute and think about the lives you destroyed."

She wrote, "All of your sleepless nights and dreary days, I pray you ask God for forgiveness and to have mercy on your soul."


Defense Attorney: 'He Does Still Proclaim His Innocence'

Sterk, Jones' attorney, tells PEOPLE that one of the hardest things he's had to do, professionally, was listen to Jefferson's family statements at Monday's sentencing.

"To say that it was heartbreaking doesn't do it justice," he says.

Even still, Jones is adamant that he is innocent of the crimes for which he was convicted, Sterk says – and Sterk says he plans to file an appeal and seek post-conviction relief in the form of a lighter sentence.

Sterk says Jones had had emergency surgery on his leg and stomach, with a rod installed in his leg, five months before the 2011 shooting, and would not have been walking the streets, as the prosecutors argued. Sterk also called into question the testimony of both eyewitnesses.

He says that Jones knew Jefferson for years before the shooting.

"[Jones] prays for them and feels terrible for their loss," Sterk says. "At the same time, he does still proclaim his innocence."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-g...160839450.html

[Weltschmerz]

Fix yourselves , fix your mistakes and clean up your communities and stop pointing fingers. No one makes you sell crack on the streets, no one
Steals your child support money and no one makes you commit domestic violence.

Fact is , black on black crime is a huge issue that continues to be ignored by the black community .you dont see jesse jackson and al sharpton around after a thug shoots a gangster. And you dont see protests on the street or shutting down freeways when tyrone shoots malik in a drive by.

Truth is the black communities wanna blame everyone but themselves. You dont see white people making rap videos about busting caps in yo azz. Fact is black culture has put its own foot in its mouth .you cant have it both ways. You wanna see a change , look in the mirror and fix yourselves from within , be respectful and show integrity along with ending all the violence in your communities .

Stop making excuses and stop being tunnel visioned along with being overly biased toward the situation . Fix your culture and change will come , until then , you are fighting and losing the war . 100

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