See shyt like this is a just a lose-lose situation for street rappers like Pop. You give up the jewels and now his gangsta image gets fukked up and his career might not bounce back. He fights back and shyt like this happens.
This quote encapsulates the difference between what rappers sell, and real life. It's only a lose-lose situation in rap...
In the real world dudes are giving up their shyt. You know how often some real solid nikkas get vic'd in a robbery? This is normal in the lifestyle, yet hip hop messaging tells you that it isnt, and if you're approached in a robbery you better go out guns blazing or you're some hoe ass nikka...
Whenever the lines in hip hop became blurred and the rappers were shown to start actively portraying the streets it fukked up the young and/or gullible who are too green to know the difference. And to be honest with you, alot of these young dudes ain't been around long enough to be able to reason with the impact of what they're chasing...
In the real world if you aren't ready to die, you let them dudes take whatever they need if there's no win there. It certainly doesn't mean they won't kill you anyway but as the homie
@Double Burger With Cheese said upthread, most robberies don't end in murder or even have the initial intent of murder; way, way more stick ups going on outside than actual homicides. But you let that shyt go, and if you're really cut like that you'll see them dudes down the line, but the reality is "get back" isnt always correlated with killing the dudes that robbed you, either...
All this hip hop shyt in fanatical, you don't get this education listening to "street" rappers, most those types aren't to the core cut from it anyway. This idea that you gotta either fight for some replaceable materials or you're a hoe, you're not wrong, I'm just pointing out that this is hip hop imaging, it's not an accurate reflection of what being outside is like...
I just have a real beef with the way cats discuss rappers and "street politics" at this stage of my life, and an even bigger issue with the excessive marketing of supposedly "street" rappers and their ideology...