LikeI recently watched a documentary on Hip Hop named "Beef". What started out as a competition between entertainers trying to prove who was the best, escalated to the point they were killing each other. Character assassination became actual assassination. Asinine? Perhaps. I has certainly surpassed the point of insanity.
You would think after the premature deaths of 2Pac and Biggie Smalls, hip hop artists would've chilled the fuck out. But instead some, like 50 Cent, instigated "beefs" with artists to gain popularity, and it worked. You would think after being shot nine times (once in the face) he would've chilled, but no. His beefs continued, and his popularity grew.
It was a disturbing sort of documentary that indicates a culture of violence over little more than pride and oneupmanship. A culture now revered by many. Foreign to me and messed up, and yet as 50 Cent put it, it was either do what he could to make it or go back to the streets. The title of his first hit album says it all: "Get Rich or Die Tryin'". Can you blame him? Then again, when does it end?
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