I see what y'all saying. But sometimes it's just a young kid trying to be a thug. It's the environment you grow up in where the coolest cats were the ones known to pop nikkas.
I was once a 16 year old where the hottest rappers were 50 cent and the LOX. Couple that with the nikka that was the coolest at the High School was a stickup kid known to walk the streets with a glock-49. Breh walked with a bop to his step and crowds literally parted as he walked the hall in fear of him.
Mind u he stood no taller than 5'5".
U think at 16 I didn't envy his presence? I made it out by the skin of my teeth.
Most cases it ain't that deep. It's having the spirit in you to walk that tightrope in a valley of wolves...
I remember them times too. Cats want to be the 4th member of the LOX so bad that they will do any goon shyt to reach that status. All that ignorant ass crime and all the people rooting for them (hood dudes, birdbrain hoes, rappers, prison inmaes) and so few supporters for the intellectual dudes make this situation all the
Kids today have all kinds of images to inspire to (Kid Cudi, ASAP, Pro Era, Joey Badass), but they throw it away to be a goon.
this is all cause of Chief Keef
Keef gave birth to these young nikkas doing dumb shyt. Even after he flopped, people still want to be him.