Quote of the Day: Stop Snitchin’
Posted by Bossip Staff
David Banner (who is not afraid to speak his mind) had something to say about T.I. and his bodyguard snitchin’ situation:
“Tip was feeding this man’s family. We don’t do it like that, dog. We don’t talk to them boys. However it went down, we sit down [and do the jail time,] where I’m from. Dude, you don’t tell it. You hope the people you holding down is man enough to hold your people down. [The bodyguard] wasn’t a convicted felon, my dude. He could have held [Tip] down. We gotta start making the environment in our neighborhoods not conducive to snitching. How I’m doing this song, I’mma make it uncomfortable for snitches.”
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Brilliant David. That’s right lying is good. Tell that to the father on judgement day.
*takes a bow*
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I want to know what got TI so shook that he felt like he needed all that arsenal in the first place.
How about not making our neighborhoods not conducive to crime? Mr. “Who are you leading?” who the hell are you leading?
way to keeps the guns off the street Banner…
ummm david why not work to make the environment free of violence? ignorance is bliss i guess. i wish he would sit his stupid ass down
oops meant take out the first “not”
So now i guess we are teaching our children to go to jail for others….this is sad. Maybe TI should take some responsibility here. What is this world coming too??? And I do not know anyone who really wants to keep it “real” and go to jail for someone else. And Im sure the bodyguard has a family too.
I don’t understand why Banner is mad at the bodyguard for snitching, but doesn’t he say something about T.I. being a dumbass for trying to buy illegal weapons as a 2-strike felon? Guns are killing our people, yet your gonna criticize a guy for snitchin’, yet not the one who was buying the guns. What’s gonna hurt our communities more: snitching or guns? This stop snitching crap is gettin’ stupid.
i refuse to accpet anything coming from a man best known for wanting women to get their pussies wet!wtf? thinking he can turn around and get intellectual on my azz. NO! David Banner and his stupid ‘hood’ philosophies need to stay in the damn hood. i hate the fact that such an ignorant roach gets the chance tp spread ignorance amongst the black community (many of who will agree with this ghetto mentality). Informing the police is part of our civic duty in order to ensure the safety of ALL OF US. quit wid that NWA mentality. if his family got shot down tomorrow (God forbid)and I was the only witness, i know that David would be on the phone begging me to ’snitch’. THINK PEOPLE
all my love as always(but not to you David)
Mary Jane Elizabeth Shardice Blige
The stop snitching mentality causes more criminals to walk the strets, and more black people become vicitms of crimes because of it.
Tell that man to shut up.
That is phenomenally ignorant!
“Snitching” probably saved some lives in this case. Maybe even one of TI’s kids. No telling what could have happened.
I’m not doing time for anybody else’s crime. That’s not honorable, that’s stupid. I work for a Fortune 500 company. If some Enron type shit went down, should I take the fall because the company is “feeding my family”??
Negro please. TI dug a hole for himself. Not using wisdom. That’s what Banner should be mad at: public over the top head shaking stupidity.
I agree with making “our” neighborhoods none condusive to crime. BUT on the other hand, my mother alwayz taught me to stay away from crime, but if your gonna do the crime, you HAVE to do the time. That dude is a SNITCH!!! HE was a grown man, that made the wrong decisions for himself and got caught and thought he could make it better by snitching on his boss!!! What a FUCK UP that dude is? Are you fuckin’ kidding me? I grew up in all WHITE neighborhoods and even there that shit is NOT OKAY!!!
FUCK A SNITCH, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS and leave the rest up to GOD. No one get’s away forever,GOD won’t allow it. But it’s wrong to pull someone down just because you jumped into a sinking ship in the first place ya dig? You just gotta chalk it up and charge it to the game.
@ Mary J
I completely agree- if you were the only witness to a crime committed against one of his loved ones, he would probably threaten your life if you DIDN’T snitch? Where does it end??
What kind of idiot would spend years in jail for someone else’s stupid mistake? Not willingly! This “don’t snitch” foolishness is some of the dumbest sh*t in captivity!
Don’t be a f*cking criminal and get yourself caught up in some stupid sh*t in the first damn place!
We need to get the good people out of the hood and replace them with the likes of TI and David Banner. Let them destroy each other and leave the good black folks out of it!
What a JACK AZZ!!! The stop snitching message comes from and is carried out by some messed up in the head FOOLS.
The ATF are vigilantes in what they do.
The “F” especially.
OK it’s official, David Banner is a Idiot.
What…..um yeah I love Bill Cosby.
ignorant is right. he is totally misguided. snitching is not the problem. crime is.he should speak out against silliness like a convicted felon attempting to buy firearms instead of a man who would rather turn in the dumb felon than go to jail himself just for the sake of being real and getting a mention in album credits for his troubles. such foolishness…
and that is this ridiculous mentality is the reason so many murders go unsolved and innocent lives unavenged. way to perpetuate this crap david dumbass
Oh F@ck That!!!
you are a perfect example as to why ignorant people like David Banner should get no shine. Now you blamin’ the bodyguard for dragging down TI? How about putting the blame on the one person who ACTUALLY PAID FOR the damn guns, hold up not guns, MACHINE GUNS! & another thing, what do you think TI was going to do with those guns anyway??? You think he was going Duck hunting ?? HELL NO!! If anything by “snitchin” on TI, the bodyguard probably saved someone’s ass, that’s for damn sure…
SMH while I feel sorry for what TI children are going through. he should have known better when are these damn fools going to get it. his 3 year old son is going to be traumatized for the rest of his life and if your so scared of being robbed ect. that’s what hired security is for no a convicted felon trying to buy an arsenal of high powered rifles, then the other children went off to acting school. here’s a novel idea how about having a tutor teach your children to speak other languages instill in them to be chemist, biologist, doctors, scientist, teachers and people of the like that truly contribute to society. why must be want another actor, rapper or celebrity in the family. out of the 35 family member who showed up for his dumb ass I wonder how many were lawyers, doctors or even a bus driver? these men fail to understand you can’t blame yt for the fuckery you do. being a convicted felon is a choice not the man out to get your silly ass. keep out of trouble, raise your children right, quit having a harem of babies mamma’s invest your money in stocks, bonds, and new technology designed to improve the environment instead of fly whips, fly cribs and big ass slave chains. how about opening boy’s and girls clubs in your communities, schools, supermarkets and no profit organizations benefiting the communities. this fool has so many cars that cost an arm and leg. he lives in Atlanta how about saving Grady Hospital that poor people in Atlanta depend on for their medical care? in Atlanta if your ass don’t have health insurance you will not be seen no matter what your condition. I don’t feel sorry for him he knew better but like he said in one of his song he don’t care about the feds investigating him. I can’t help but hear in my head the David Chappell skit “when keeping it real, goes wrong”.
You guys are taking this stop snitching stuff in the wrong way. First off no one in their right mind is going to let a serial killer live next door to them. Thats plain retarded. But at the same time The “Stop snitchin campaign” Is applied only to those who get caught up in their own situations. For instance If my brother gets caught robbing a liquior store, and i was the driver but he gets caught, thats him. Police do not know that i had anything to do with it. But if he says ” J.Logan was the driver” then thats snitchin point blank. Us as blacks coming out the hood or poverty do not condone that. Now the unsolved murder situations is only a symbol of people not being snithes. Its like this you cant afford to snitch on someone who killed somebody, or you are about to get killed. Thats why people dont snitch. You guys think that us saying “stop snithcing” raises up the bar for violence. IT DOESNT. Its just a national code for “Mind your own business” and “If you get caught in your actions do not tell on everyone around you”
David Banner should be SHOT–and nobody better SNITCH!!!!
I do not agree with this dick head Im so tired of people defending people just because there black.T.I should not have been in a situation that he could get snitched on.He has all the money he needs to take care of his family.David you really need invest in some kind of therapy you always sound like you on some bad medication.
David Banner I thought you were a educated man. Your talking real stupid, it’s time for all of you to grow up and realize that no one should be in a position to go to jail. Like Chris Rock said,”Dude your not suppose to go to Jail!”
David Banner is real backwards! The bodyguards job is to protect not to go to jail 4 T.I!!! Why should that bodyguard lose his freedom and get a record for someone who can hire and fire him the next day?? TAKE NO FALL FOR NO MAN!!!
Ttime
David Banner should be SHOT–and nobody better SNITCH!!!!
Great point!!!
I guess I shoulda expected them to support this ignorance and stupidity. I guess rappin is just another hustle to some of these dudes.
If you get the opportunity in life to change for the better not in just your zip code or the car you drive, you need to use your brains. If you break the law, the law is more than willing to get you because you seem to be on the rise to living a better life, but you can’t do that behind bars. Think of your kids & the kids that know who you are. Wake up my brothers, wake up. Don’t break the law & stay out of jail. You know they would love to put you behind bars. Instead of weapons buy books and/or pay tuition for some unfortunate kids that use to be you.
The sad thing is the media will pick up on what Banner said and make it out that all black people feel that way. When are we going to stop hiding behind this victim mentality and take responsibility for ourselves???!!! What on earth are you going to do with a bunch of machine guns??? And Banner had the nerve to say he’s a victim? Negro please. You are sitting on a pile of money. You’re famous. You’re not a victim anymore!
@ J. Logan:
We understand what the REAL definition of snitching is….but these ignorant MFers who are promoting the “No Snitching” code DO NOT know what it means and they are discouraging honest, law-abiding citizens from promoting crime in their neighborhoods under the threat of retaliation.
You are preaching to the choir. We all know the real definition of a snitch. The problem is that the “hoodrats” are promoting something that they cannot even define. Criminals don’t want law-abiding criminals to report the crime that is plaguing the inner cities.
Would David Banner say that of Clifford took one of those weapons to shoot his family?
That’s not the point, and neither is his bodyguard snitching, the point is, the bodyguard would not have snitched if Clifford thought twice about purchasing those weapons.
Stop holding black men and women in the wrong, David.
You know better.
Another dumb ass rapper willin to get another dumb ass rapper already on parole for his dumb ass behavior, out of trouble. I say snitch on real black people. We have allowed these criminal minded fools to much leeway in our communities and look what it has done. Snitchin was the only way to break the mafia’s back when it was terrifying the streets and shooting up everybody that didn’t obey their criminal ways. The government put the dons away because people spoke up and now we have the chance to do the same. Of course this fool doesn’t like it and what in hell was Ti gonna do with all them guns anyway. You just know somebody, probably a lot of somebodies, was gonna get killed over some stupid shit, like stepping on Ti foot at the clubs. Like they say, evil prevails when good people do nothing.
Look T.I. bought the guns which was a big mistake. But damn His bodyguard not only got caught but set him up. And then told him exactly where the guns were? What type of stuff is that? His bodyguard is the one who got busted, so that gives him the right to try and bring the next man to jail? wtf?!! Even in our neighboorhoods we cant stop crime even if we told or not because what if the person you snithched n gets locked up but then the person he killed retaliates against him and his family? either way it go, we have no control over violence and we try to stay far from it. Thats why we do not snitch.
I am very happy to see that most here realize that Banner is wrong for this statement.
That cat is str8 up stupid. TI rap sheet is as long as his record sales. He was supposed to know better. Don’t blame the effect, deal with the cause.
“Stop Snitchin”, that’s some bullsh*t! Banner, why don’t your soft ‘bama azz do half of TI’s time.
David Banner should be ASHAMED of himself!!! He doesn’t even have the whack ass excuse of not being educated. HE KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS MESS! If it wasn’t T.I. and it was some random man we didn’t know buying a whole damn arsenal who lived near where we live, where our children played, and where our mothers walk would it still be STOP SNITCHING?! That’s a damn shame that some folks think letting criminals get away with this bulls#$# is the right thing to do. If a man is “slangin’” on my corner where my kids play, I could give a damn what color he is, I want his triflin’ a$$ in jail! WAKE THE %$^# UP BLACK PEOPLE!!!
You make a valid point Ttime. You are absolutely right
@Tara
It’s not about going about going to jail for others it’s about if your involved in something illegal you should know the consequences and when and if you get caught be ready to do your own time and not pass it on to others.
@ COOp
Thats what im trying to say. You make a valid point as well
*SMDH* “N*ggas” can’t STAND to see progress at all. Stupid son of a b*tch. RIP Angela Dawson and family! That’s what the “stop snitching” movement did.
I have his song B.A.N (bitch a$$ n*gga) on my page. Straight f*ckery.
This is for J.Logan. about the comment for T.I. he bought some Silencers T.I. and one of you children or your homies was at a club. T.I got in a fight and pulled out his gun, meaning to shot the other man but shot your hommy instead now your hommy is dead and his children or wife (family) is left w/out someone they care becuase they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. So please think about what you say before you say it. You can make different seniors on defending the stupid shit stupid people do. If it’s wrong, It’s wrong.
It’s very sad that people don’t understand how SNITCHING has created the world that we live in. And that’s not a good thing
STOP SNITCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next time, before you put your 2cents in, go buy some lip chap for them crusty face flappers!! Damn…
And I thought this dude was intelligent. Oh well, I thought the same thing about TI. I have been wrong before.
David, sweetie, how about a message about not committing crimes? How ’bout that?
it’s amazing how there is no unity in the black community. we have been conditioned to snitch on ourselves while there is never a witness when some officer beat and kills a black man. WTF! white people are not sitting around saying, those officers were wrong. But why would they when all they have to do is to say he had priors or drugs on them and then ignorant ass blacks will just back off and walk away. idots
@Happy Nappy Head
You sound intelligent.
But……
@koon
And the blue wall of silence.
blacks are only concerned what master thinks of them. they will never prosper beyond that.
Hey if you choose to do a crime then you set yourself up for somebody “snitching” on you. This “honor among thieves” code is stupid. An individual decides to break the law (ie code) and then expects another individual to adhere to the law (ie code, “don’t snitch”). Foolishness.
You can tell a person is not intelligent just by their conversations. You know exactly who you are.
Get a clue, DUMB ASS
Ignorant!!!!
@ Tee
Thats not the situation though tee. You guys are bashing David banner for his “Stop snithchin comments” Im just stating why we do not snitch. Furthermore im also stating how T.I. had nothing to do with his bodyguard getting caught. But his bodyguard ratted him out. Now the situation you brought to my attention, if it happens, then thats a tough pill to swollow but how is banner wrong for explain his views on stop snitchin and why t.i. is in jail. What he said about t.i. is true. simply as that. You guys think hes wrong for stating the truth? T.I. wasnt in his right mind to be buying guns. But his bodyguard ratted him out and david elaborated on that. Dont bring the next man down. NOw what you are talking about with the homies and all that, i cant speak on that because thats not the sitaution thats at Hand.
Amen Dchick! How about making it uncomfortable for the idiots out here doing the stupid sh*t!
Listen Tee just because you was the sister or brother at home telling on your siblings for stickin their hand in the cookie jar doesnt mean that everyone else is going to do the same like you or condone. Snitching. Obviously david banner is not condoning it.
That singer from the song “SEX”, forgive me but I forgot her name. That young woman is DEAD. Her life is OVER because some bastard decided that was the day he’d murder her. Her mother is sobbing. Her loved ones are missing someone who will never come back. Is it still STOP SNITCHIN’ if it would have saved her life?! These sorry a$$ rappers who have money, nice neighborhoods for their children, and security gaurds to protect them are selling this nonsense to OUR BLACK CHILDREN who believe them!!! They are just as much at fault as the institutional racism that waits for young black men to F$^# UP! If you KNOW certain powers are waiting for you to fail…why, why, WHY do you make it so EASY for them to get you?????????
And this is from a person who used to respect T.I.
@J.Logan (Hold on)
You guys are taking this stop snitching stuff in the wrong way. First off no one in their right mind is going to let a serial killer live next door to them. Thats plain retarded. But at the same time The “Stop snitchin campaign” Is applied only to those who get caught up in their own situations. For instance If my brother gets caught robbing a liquior store, and i was the driver but he gets caught, thats him. Police do not know that i had anything to do with it. But if he says ” J.Logan was the driver” then that’s snitchin point blank. Us as blacks coming out the hood or poverty do not condone that. Now the unsolved murder situations is only a symbol of people not being snithes. Its like this you cant afford to snitch on someone who killed somebody, or you are about to get killed. That’s why people dont snitch. You guys think that us saying “stop snithcing” raises up the bar for violence. IT DOESNT. Its just a national code for “Mind your own business” and “If you get caught in your actions do not tell on everyone around you”
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Bravo
The problem is that the authorities don’t make many cases from normal witness so they need snitches AKA RATS. And to fight the “Stop Snitching Movement” they used propaganda to make it seem like was about someone Grandma looking out the window witnessing a crime. On the “Stop Snitching” video they only talk about people that rat on others in order to get less time for the crimes they have committed.
@MRSTHREATT
Like the RATS
if we spent as much time learning about the stock market, real estate, etc., we would be far better off than worrying about dissecting a fucking rap song. Who do you think puts out these storie anyway? dummies
J.Logan SMH Tee
@ Tee
Thats not the situation though tee. You guys are bashing David banner for his “Stop snithchin comments” Im just stating why we do not snitch. Furthermore im also stating how T.I. had nothing to do with his bodyguard getting caught.
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TI had everything to do with it. The guy was buying the guns for him.
*cosign Tee*
Coop I would be flattered that you think anything of me if I gave a damn. But I don’t. Just looking at your comments tells me that approval from you would mean that I HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG. So you can feel free to keep it.
All of you who say “Stop Snitching” need to have something violent happen to you and WATCH that song and dance change. Only lemmings think in the manner in which you “T.I. apologists” do.
Go to Angela Dawson’s family and TELL THEM TO THEIR FACE stop snitching. Do you have the gall?
DAVID BANNER YOUR AN IDIOT…
T.I’S EGO GOT HIM IN THIS YOU SHOULD TAKE HEED AND LEARN FROM HIS DUMB ASS…DUMB ASS !!!
I’m just saying, if that bodygaurd has a family why should he deprive his family to benefit T.I.’s? And I put money on it that all these mumf&%&&^as talkin’ ’bout STOP SNITCHIN’ ain’t going to jail for NOBODY else! Y’all just like those rich, body gaurded up rappers selling PURE BULLS^%$. Y’all talk all this mess about STOP SNITCHING and ain’t NANAY’ALL really about that stupidity. PURE COONERY. You might as well be a minstrel shuckin’ and jiving because that’s about as genuine as y’all STOP SNITCHIN’ cats are. PEOPLE ARE DYING! OUR PEOPLE ARE DYING! OUR MEN ARE DYING! OUR CHILDREN ARE DYING! AND ALL YOU GOT TO SAY IS “STOP SNITCHIN”?!!! I’m through…y’all done ran my blood pressure up with this nonsense. I got a new campaign for the “hood”…
STOP KILLING!!!!
How ’bout that! Y’all have a blessed day my beautiful black people!
@Tee
Don’t be so preconditioned. A rat is a rat. That bodyguard knew what he was doing was wrong he snitched to cut his time not save someones wife, child or anything else. Snitching ratting or what ever you want to call it has gotten bigger in the last 20 or so years. Does it seem to be making the world better or worse?
@loverofall
He knew he had a family before he agreed to do it and who was helping him feed that family
STOP SNITCHING
STOP RATTING
Half of the people defending T.I. and going against his bodyguard are the same people who would do the same thing if they were in his shoes.
This topic is old and done. No matter how hard you all try to defend him, it doesn’t matter. He was WRONG period. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can snitch on you if you have done nothing wrong. So he was wrong and so was the bodyguard so f*ck ‘em both.
how many people here are homeowners? Exactly, and you never will, because master will continue to get blacks riled up about some stupid issue that they put out there. we are so delusional about what our issues need to be. We don’t have a mind of our own. we will always be followers and never leaders b/c YT got this country on lock
J.Logan
Your argument is flawed with so many holes that it is, at best lauughable! 1st you use the example that if you are the driver in a getaway car & your brother who is robbin the store gets caught then its ok for you to get away because your brother should just shut up because you were not involved. HELLOOOO!!! if you are the getaway driver - aren’t you already involved?!?! But wait, in your view, as long as you didn’t get caught then you are not involved. & as far as your comment “You guys think that us saying “stop snithcing” raises up the bar for violence. IT DOESNT. Its just a national code for “Mind your own business” and “If you get caught in your actions do not tell on everyone around you”- If you really believe that, then debating against your ignorance is futile.
Coop
@Tee
Don’t be so preconditioned. A rat is a rat. That bodyguard knew what he was doing was wrong he snitched to cut his time not save someones wife, child or anything else. Snitching ratting or what ever you want to call it has gotten bigger in the last 20 or so years. Does it seem to be making the world better or worse?
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Your logic is warped and inaccurate quite frankly. How can you say that “snitching” has made the world “worse?” Surely you jest. The CRIME RATE has gone up amongst young black men and therefore the “snitching” goes up. Haven’t you ever heard of CAUSE AND EFFECT???
How about making the environment not condusive to crime in the first damn place!!!!?!?!?!??!!? Why is that option not on table!?!?!?!??!!?!?
@Happy Nappy Head
How sad you and others are.
Do you not understand that the stop snitching is for people living that street life.
As I said before you sound intelligent.
But……sounds are like looks they can be deceiving.
“SUPPORT SNITCHING” IT’S a part of fighting crime, and it gets rid of the weak criminal minded, if you can’t keep it on the D.L you deserve to get caught,
RULE #1 TRUST NO ONE…
@ Koon… wtf are you talking about? This has nothing to do with officers beating and killing people… it’s about ignorant a** black folks doing ignorant sh*t
blacks minds are so messed up that nobody realized that what the bodyguard did was also illegal. buying guns for a felon. all blacks heard was a rapper was involved and since that is what has been in the news lately and we’ve been hypnotized to hate rappers all of sudden we have fallen right in line with what YT wants us to think. SMH it’s only a matter of time before we’re back in shackles.
at missdee: so why aren’t we just as concerned with the ignorant shit whites do as they seem to be with what we do. it seems that they only get involved to watch us bicker
p.s. and if you can’t see the correlation btwn stop snitching and officers then maybe you’re the ignorant one
@Happy Nappy Head
Your on the right path but going in the wrong direction. Do to snitching there is more violence before snitching got so big you had guys that would not allow kids to get guns. The detective that help create the show the wire even admitted in a interview how sending Melvin Williams to prison made thing worse on the streets. Which was done by SNITCHES.
So snitching is the cause and everything else is the ……..
KOON
You do make a valid point, the bodyguard should also do time cause what he did WAS illegal. BUT as far as being conditioned to hate rappers?? NOT…. I love my hip-hop & I support most of’em…. just not dumb ignorant fools like D Banner….
Thank you LOVEROFALL. It’s good to know that there are some people out there thinking what i am thinking.
We need more. And maybe just maybe we can make our neighbors safe and get our children to stop waiting and immitated these people that do stupid stuff. Why not let our kids immitate positive role models. That’s all I’m saying. Hell L.L Cool J, Kanye West. Common etc. That is what i call POSITIVE!
@Happy Nappy Head
Half of the people defending T.I. and going against his bodyguard are the same people who would do the same thing if they were in his shoes.
This topic is old and done. No matter how hard you all try to defend him, it doesn’t matter. He was WRONG period. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can snitch on you if you have done nothing wrong. So he was wrong and so was the bodyguard so f*ck ‘em both.
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Wrong again you should read how drug conspiracies work.
**Sigh**
David Banner, please do us all a favor and STFU and STFD.. I am beyond tired of hearing this muthaf’ers bullshit. He is asshole backwards… He lives in a fuckin’ box and he’s got the mentality to prove it. These men truly don’t see the error of their ways. And if they think they can out smart the Feds by doing this shit.. Mutha please… If the Feds, want yo’ ass, they are gonna get you by any means necessary. Believe that. So keep walkin’ around here runnin’ yo’ mouth.. They just waitin’ for your stupid ass.
@Coop
TI knew HE had a family too before engaging in that coonery!
His ignorant azz comments shouldn’t even get any airtime! He is what’s wrong with the black community. Dumb azz
For a man who likes to tout his degrees, he isn’t making a lick of sense. What foolishness. Making the hip-hop community look even dumber.
Wyclef Jean took his praise even further last week, calling T.I. a “prophet” and comparing him to Malcolm X.
Wyclef please stick to Haitian causes because apparently American history is not your forte’. Dumbass.
Happy Nappy Head
I hear what you are saying but. I Feel like this. Rappers from the street rap about the street. But when you start making lots of money and you live in a mansion at what point do you stop rapping about the streets and start talking about something else. For instance what’s going on in the white. Iraaq, Dead beat daddy’s. Come on now.
LMAO! I just ought to cut and paste some of ya’lls comments when you were defending this goofball!
Mind you — I am not saying that I agree nor agree with what he is saying but he really needs to make up his mind. Humanitarians don’t follow no “street code” and some of yous was making him seem like the black Angelina Jolie.
Play your position… not all of ‘em
lmmfao
in hindsight…maybe Angie Ange wasn’t the best example.
hehehehe
@Happy Nappy Head
Your on the right path but going in the wrong direction. Do to snitching there is more violence before snitching got so big you had guys that would not allow kids to get guns. The detective that help create the show the wire even admitted in a interview how sending Melvin Williams to prison made thing worse on the streets. Which was done by SNITCHES.
So snitching is the cause and everything else is the ……..
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Okay that’s all I needed to read. That’s ENOUGH lol. I can’t even BEGIN to keep reading this because this is like me arguing with a 2 year old. It’s not going to work until they get their minds right and quite frankly it’s retarded.
Good day to you.
david banner is so ignorant and dumb that he actually went to congress to defend our constitutional rights for free speech. what an idiot. I mean I know that most of the people on here went to congress too to fight against racial profiling, for public schools in their city to provide books for all students, to stop redlining, for the victims of Katrina, to stop discrimination in the workplace, etc. SMH
p.s. racism doesn’t exist right? so, i guess there’s no need to
@Coop
I can’t BELIEVE your logic. LOL so the snitching makes the crime worse?????? Good God in His holy seat. This is the DUMBEST sh*t I have ever heard.
Oprah was in poverty she made it out. Me, you and everyone else can see she is giving back. David Banner is from the street and so is T.I don’t rap about sex,guns,hoes,bitches, and how much money you got. Tell other blacks that are still in poverty how to get what you got. Don’t teach my child or anyone else’s child how to have sex.ETC… They are no longer in the streets and if they are it a decision they choose to make. When they did live in the streets they were thinking of how to get out. SO GET THE HELL OUT. Stop making money off of peolpe who thinks this stuff is cool. They making money off you boo!!! and contataminating your mind!!
It’s so strange that this is the same dude that had a two page letter about how Oprah was sooo wrong b/c she doesn’t help enough black people and she doesn’t have any rappers on her show. WHY THE HELL WOULD SHE WHEN Y’ALL STUPID BLACK ASSES ACT LIKE THIS???? Oprah is about promoting something good. One minute you got these ghetto rappers talking about how everyone thinks they are bad and not giving them a fair chance but then they turn right around and do something bad. What the hell do you expect people to think you are? I’m convinced. 70% of black men in the industry are FUCKING IDIOTS. Stuff like this makes me want to give the po-pos your address so they can put your stupid ass in jail and keep our communities safe. This shit is messing up my Afrocentric wellness.
koon said:
“how many people here are homeowners? Exactly, and you never will, because master will continue to get blacks riled up about some stupid issue that they put out there. we are so delusional about what our issues need to be. We don’t have a mind of our own. we will always be followers and never leaders b/c YT got this country on lock”
Are you referring to this discussion on “snitching” as “stupid” and “delusional”? I hope not brother because I know many people who’ve lost loved ones to violence and drugs who think this issue is VERY REAL AND RELEVANT!
yall know what i kinda agree with him in this case because if somebody is payin yo bills and feeding yo kids……… man i dont know
at i stay smh: yes Angie was a good example for you b/c you are not conditioned to think of whites like that. see how easy it was to not judge her based on behavior like we do each other. keep shaking your head, it needs fixing
I hate this snitchin bullshit. The Black community can’t tell the police or authorities something that could be a threat to themselves or someone else without being called a snitch. wtf is wrong with Black people these days? we’re supposed to look out for one another…but instead we gotta ‘keep it G’ and not tell someone whats going on without being concerned about your own safety. TI dumb ass should’ve never ordered all those weapons..if he was in so much danger, go to the cops and let them know whats going on. Eh.
why are these the people that represent this generation?
it’s funny how people talking about ignorant david banner is w/o realizing their ignorance.
I’m joining the conversation late but so what. I would like to know why is it okay for David Banner to get mad at Oprah Winfrey & whoever else because he feels that they don’t do anything to change the situation on the streets as leaders. Its apparent that he’s not fit to be a leader if he feels that it is okay to go to jail for others. All these people keep talking about STOP SNITCHIN. David Banner should have been on hear saying DON’T ALLOW YOUR PARTNER IN CRIME TO GO TO JAIL BY HIMSELF. Or how about DON’T DO SHIT TO GET A RECORD IN THE 1ST PLACE & then you don’t have to worry about someone with no priors taking the fall for you. I’m not saying that snitching is okay, but if you know that your dumb ass already have priors then why do you continuoulsy do more dumb shit. That is whats wrong with the streets today. David Banner & TI’s families are set & will continue to be fed. This bodyguard’s familiy will be without a provider. To COOP, How did you just so happen to know that this bodyguard wanted to lessen his sentence just for himself. His children will be somemore statistics of black children whose fathers are not around so now they feel the need to sell drugs & do other things to help provide for their families. I’m not saying that the bodyguard was innocent but damn, he was doing a job for someone else. If you get in trouble at work for doing something that your boss told you to do, would you just take your pink slip and walk the fuck off? Hell naw. You gonna let the next person in charge know that your boss okayed it. You never know what’s going through someone’s mind unless your inside that person’s head. David Banner is all about rapping about how he “likes it when its funky” but can he like it when peoples children have the fathers in the household.
it isn’t funny. david banner is publicly encouraging lying. how can you condone this? TI is an adult, he is aware of the consequences for his actions. why should someone else jepordize thier freedom to protect that of someone who apparently doesn’t regard it?
@Miss K
They wouldn’t do that. It makes too much sense to do that. I don’t understand this mentality our men have about “being a Man”. It’s so sad but most of them don’t even know that it means to be a man yet they running around messing up stuff for everyone else to clean up like children do. WTF is wrong with us? WHERE ARE THE REAL MEN???? Not the boys, homies, or Gs with criminal records or doing something illegal. Where are my educated, strong, powerful, God fearing, caring, protective black men at???? I want y’all to stand up and show these boys what it takes to be a real man.
@Koon
I marched on Washington to support Affirmative Action because I was going to my classes at UofM getting called a nigger so PLEASE don’t even take it there! Racism is alive and well. And I don’t believe anybody on here is trying to even suggest it isn’t. But as I said before, if you know people (Hip Hop police) are waiting for you to fail, why would you hand feed them an opportunity to take you down? THAT’S STUPID! I’m not trying to get at you but you’re a young black man and I don’t have to know you to love you as my brother. Can’t you see how feeding into this “Stop Snitching” code is KILLING US. Even if “the white man” (and I hate using that terminology) buys a cargo load of guns to sell in “the hood” he ain’t got the POWER to place it your and tell you to SHOOT IT AT YOUR BROTHER! Brother please wake up because I’d hate to see someone standing over YOUR casket wishing someone had SNITCHED…
I usually dont comment on these but…damn. Stop snitching? Is this what the world has come to? The problem is the ridiculous mentality that (some) black folks have. Everyone thinks that it is about them. There is something bigger than you…The efficiency of the environment. We dont act as a collective unit. Regardless of if his body guard snitched or not, if TI did it, he deserves to go down. David Banner and the rest of the jack asses that side with criminal activity do a dis-service to our community. 50 cent, RZA and the rest of them should be ashamed of themselves. RZA seems like he blames the damned “hip-hop” police. Granted, the profiling of indiviudals is wrong. But if they would stop entertaining and participating in criminal acts, maybe there would not be a problem.
@jemanniecrickets
The more important question is why should Oprah waste money on trying to save the black community when people like David Banner are tearing it apart? What he is doing is adding to the lies and distrust. He should be ashamed of himself. She can’t help us fast enough before someone like him comes through and destroys all that has been built.
“being a MAN” is:
-not making babies that you won’t provide a strong family foundation for.
-not selling drugs [or encouraging drug sales]to your own community
-not feeling as though you have the right to put your hands on another human being because you cannot verbally express yourself.
-not disrespecting and exploiting women [even if some women allow it]
-seeking higher education
the list can go on and on.
SMH@Oh F@ck That…Jesus seriously needs to take your wheel, ya dig? David Banner AND TI need to pick up Bill Cosby’s book. These dudes float around in Hypocritical Land like ignorance really is bliss. Let me see David…so you want Bush to send some help to Mississippi? Okay…what if he does (laughing at that “what if”)and you witness someone stealing some of the money? Would you snitch? Prolly not, huh? You’re basically saying screw everyone that the crime affects. Which just seems idiotic to me. This, code of the streets crap has no business in the mind of an intellectual. If you know better, it’s your responsibility to do better. I think the press should really limit the airplay some of these rappers get. The amount of influence they have over our culture, generation, community…is sickening. And Lord don’t get me start on Lil Kim’s Stop Snitching Campaign. I still can’t believe how much glory she got, “in the hood”, for breaking the law. My people, my people, we really need to get our priorities in order.
The body guard work for TI and owes him nothing but a days work for a day’s pay. If he is the man in his rap songs let him be the man in his own punishment. He is not above the law this should be a wake up for all America to see who they are worshipping and where their money is going.
@Happy Nappy Head
So your not smarter then a 2 year old.
I used to think that Banner was one of the more intelligent hip hop artists. He does fight for the injustice of blacks but this statement does not become of someone thats suppose to be an activists. This no snitchin rule is something that I don’t bel