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Serious question.
Has someone like Eminem come out and spoke in favour of what these kids are doing?
greyl
(22,990 posts)brettdale
(12,331 posts)but gun control.
Good to know rappers have.
Ive never followed the genre, thats why i asked the question.
greyl
(22,990 posts)But don't you usually use Google when you're just curious?
Examples of both:
'They Love Their Guns More Than Our Children.' Eminem Calls Out NRA in His iHeartRadio Performance
http://time.com/5195505/eminem-on-out-nra-iheartradio-awards-2018/
Note the March For Our Lives T-shirts in the video:
Your boy got popped in a driveby yesterday
He'll be lucky if he makes it through the night is what the doctors say
U can take revenge or U can be the one 2 break the chain
U look up in the sky 4 an answer and it starts 2 rain
What are we if we're not 2gether?
How do we make a life that's better?
'cause when we be killin' one another (Take each other out)
How do we (Huh, how) call each other brother?
U tell me
What's the chance of a brother gettin' off the block?
What's the chance, not a damn
If all he wanna do is sell chicken wings and the rock
U can blame the system, U can be the one 2 even the score, huh
Yeah, huh, U look up in the sky 4 an answer and it starts 2 pour
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Rapped about gun control:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/common-joins-chicago-rap-initiative-to-end-gun-violence-20151014
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)Fishes the pier every night
He holsters his glock in a double retention.
He smokes while he waits for a bite.
He don't like the Muslims. He don't like the Jews.
He don't like the Blacks and he don't trust the news.
He hates the Hispanics and alternative views.
He'll tell you it's tough to be white.
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Some of my shooting buddies will howl at me for even considering the notion of gun restrictions and I dont blame them. The vast majority of gun owners, even those with a penchant for high capacity semi-autos, even those with full auto permits, the vast majority never do anyone any harm. And Ive always hated the need argument so often brought up by some who have never fired a gun. Its true, no one needs an Uzi; but nor does anyone need a Porsche, and no one will ever deny a person the right to own a Porsche, even though Porsches are designed to run at speeds far exceeding most US speed limits, and if driven at such speeds on public roads may endanger innocent citizenry.
Its not an exact analogy, but perhaps worth noting. People Ive known who have owned Uzis and various full auto weapons just used them to shoot up farm trash dumps and junk cars, an expensive but thoroughly fun past time which wouldnt be the same if one had to change mags every ten rounds. I cant blame a shooter who has always acted responsibly for being annoyed at gun restrictions, even if said restrictions could actually be proven to be good for society as a whole. Often it seems that the one bad kid on the playground spoils the game for the rest of us and our hard ball gets taken away, but thats life, and we have to start somewhere. We have to try something, or at least talk about trying something without immediately descending into factionalized shouting matches, each person shouting the slogan from his favorite bumper sticker to which he has chained his identity.
I dont want to take away anyones Uzi. I dont want to restrict anyones right to dig up a hillside with an AK-47, but I want that constable or deputy to have an extra second to make the shooting stop; that way, someone gets to see their child, someone who wouldnt without that extra second. I dont know of a fair way to make that happen. And no, I dont know if the unfair way would work either, but it seems like it might, at least in a case or two. Might . once again. One must try.
Full essay: http://blurtonline.com/2013/06/more-than-just-a-tall-order-james-mcmurtry-on-guns/
blake2012
(1,294 posts)That you use to shoot off in a junk yard or see you lose your ability to shott up a hill of dirt with your AK-47 just so some kids arent massacred in their schools every month....
Pretty sad that his fan base must be so rabidly pro gun he cant just say, your right to squeeze off a few hundred rounds without reloading isnt remotely as important as our kids getting home without being mowed down like grass within 10 minutes.
greyl
(22,990 posts)I'm part of his fan base, and am not pro gun, let alone rabidly.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Message to this song.
greyl
(22,990 posts)lame54
(35,130 posts)Great first line to a great song
brettdale
(12,331 posts)spoke of his support for Emma, and the march for our lives, march.
I do remember an old song he did, cant remember which, in which had
a anti gun line in it.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)As you can see from links, quite a few rappers do rap and/or have rapped about gun control
brettdale
(12,331 posts)Although its not the one Im thinking of, the Gaines line was
Maybe its the brothers or the mothers with the guns.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Not quite as strong as Common and other rappers saying put the guns down
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/common-joins-chicago-rap-initiative-to-end-gun-violence-20151014
brettdale
(12,331 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Clearly many musicians from all genres care about the issue. But the post originally asked whether rappers rap about gun control. We answered in the affirmative with proof. Then someone wisely asked if anyone in country music has sung about gun control. So far...nothing has really been offered which could be seen as proof that country music artists sing about it.
flying rabbit
(4,612 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Tanuki
(14,893 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)All Rappers Love Guns???
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)I grew up in Chicago and now it's a shooting gallery. And I don't mean needles...
Record deaths in Chicago, seems like every year. Shame.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Less guns in our country and better control of gun flow across the whole country would help with gun violence. Stats prove it the world over.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)There are numerous rap songs condemning gun violence.
Odd OP.
lame54
(35,130 posts)Voltaire2
(12,610 posts)Just because you put a serious question disclaimer on it doesnt make it so.
MineralMan
(146,190 posts)Google would have provided the answer to your "serious" question.
ismnotwasm
(41,917 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Iggo
(47,486 posts)Now nobody will think you're talking about black people.