Hire fukking security and stop pulling up at spots where your “opps” be at you dumbass millionaire
Hire fukking security and stop pulling up at spots where your “opps” be at you dumbass millionaire
OneManGang
Veteran
I ain’t never seen one nikka who cut his eyebrows that wasn’t corny and or made smart decisions
If you go looking for trouble, you’ll definitely find itHire fukking security and stop pulling up at spots where your “opps” be at you dumbass millionaire
Pulling guns on 17 year olds in pickup games and flashing guns equates to a security measures?
I guess the gang talk and calling yourself a savage and moving around with criminals too?
Nobody criticized him for owning a gun
This shyt sounds like kids from Montana tryna explain shyt.
There's apartments in Brooklyn that cost 20 million and people who barely can eat.
A lot of neighborhoods are diverse, his house was nice, he was a nice kid and both his parents had middle class money and both college educated, and obviously hella supportive.
Still doesn’t explain why he’s craving the gang life after becoming a multi millionaire
It’s just extremely uncomfortable for some to reconcile that black people have exported a music globally that glamorizes and celebrates the murder of black people and that this image has become the prevalent one of young black males to emulate. So people react as is human nature when confronted with realities they don’t want to face - denial anger defensiveness.That's not an argument I make but I do understand how it's always read that way. People have an emotionally abusive relationship with the genre, any critique is met with swift defense in spite of the content literally reveling in Black death.
The leading cause of death for Black males between the ages of 1-44 is homicide, while this is certainly not a function of music, my question is, why do we find content that literally promotes and celebrates Black death to be entertaining as so-called Black people?
There's nothing strange about Ja deciding to show off a gun while rapping along to a song where the artist is rapping about gun violence. There's nothing strange about him wearing the same costume as these rappers while doing so.
We're teaching Black boys and men that this is how they should behave and that's where the music and accompanying videos is responsible.
I’m not blaming hip hop entirely for Ja’s behavior but the current mainstream cultural climate for hip hop is based almost entirely around the celebration of the criminal lifestyle. It’s what is seen as “cool”. Young people want to emulate what’s cool, and for someone like Ja who seems to have more of a follower mentality that means acting out what he’s seen in rap videos despite making hundreds of millions of dollars.
I just don’t see him behaving this way if he grew up on BDP, Big Daddy Kane Rakim etc. I mean it’s possible but remote. So it isn’t hip hop in and of itself. It’s what hip hop has become.
Leave it to Bomani to be the one to actually hit the nail on the head
…I wasn’t even paying attention, bc we so used to that ‘posse’ issueAnd this is why Wilbons comments touched me pause. Bc this is a huge cultural issue. This is the crash out generation. We come from the generation of ‘he hoop so we give him a pass.’ What Nas say ‘go home Shorty we about to be shootin.’. Nggas protect the young talent and especially thrthe breadwinner (except Pac)
Now? These youngins got the generals on the front lines
It's cheap to own where he lives. You can do that on Amazon warehouse salary. Ya'll act like it's all that expensive to build a basketball court. You just need the land which is plentiful where he lives. You can get the whole package for less than 2.2k.
Doing that shyt where you and I live is different. Where to get land where we live cost 2.5 million for starters.
Fortunate Lee
Superstar
It would make sense if this was the reason. But we know Morant is a clout chasing attention whore.
What was the purpose of showing this on social media?
I just did a search on Ja's dad house. Brought in 2016 for 225k. Most of the cost is the land, 20.4 acres. 6bds. If they paid for the earnest, good chance Tee is paying 830/month.
Even the house before this was a 2bedroom which wasn't much considering the size of Ja's family.
That's not that much even in the country where houses are costing a lot more than this.
Even the house before this was a 2bedroom which wasn't much considering the size of Ja's family.
That's not that much even in the country where houses are costing a lot more than this.
this fukkin idiot. the fact that you're telling us you were carrying a gun after being stabbed is proof that your situation is not even remotely like this. you carried it without us even knowing.
what is the point of this? i don't think anyone said he grew up rich. what you posted (and that's more than i ever knew about him) is that before the NBA his family had 20 acres in the country. he grew up good enough where this wannabe gangster shyt shouldn't be inevitable. was his bloods tree house on a section of that 20 acres?
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
He’s from the same place Ray Allen is from who was a military brat it’s home to army HQ’s.
“The median income for a household in the CDP was $40,750, and the median income for a family was $41,979. Males had a median income of $29,006 versus $22,000 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,124. About 12.0% of families and 14.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.3% of those under age 18 and 4.0% of those age 65 or over.”
It isn’t a high crime area or area of high concentrated poverty.