Thug Ethos: Why Vivica Fox Crying Over 50 Cent is a Bad Thing, on a Few Different Levels

We have the same celebrity culture in which everyone that does everything wrong is cool and anyone that truly stands for anything is a bit lost or is not hip to the game yet. We just express it a different way; how can we talk about uplifting and raising ourselves as a people when we continue to reinforce the same stereotypes. We’ll talk about how, despite the amoral and unethical behavior of what the individual represents, they are there for their kids, are good fathers, provide for them, whatever. Then the guy who isn’t killing anyone at the 9 to 5 with a college degree who isn’t making as much money is the one that can never get it right; it just doesn’t make any sense. You know what is being done, what the drug addicts go through, what comes with the profession yet this is what it comes to; while I do not necessarily agree with a lot of the pundits I understand their anger, their rage, I get it.

Then we have our own hypocrisy; I listen to the music, think that it is cool, like to listen to the beats. It may not necessarily be gangsta music per se, could just be your typical amoral rap music from someone who on so many different levels does not personify the characteristics I should be looking towards as an individual, but it is the same thing. That new album comes out, that single, that mix-tape, and I want to hear it, I need to satisfy my curiosity. Can I honestly say that those I hang around do not at least adhere to the stereotypical style, way of dressing, way of carrying themselves? I don’t know what they do in their spare time, but I sure as hell am not somewhere around public intellectuals or our Black intelligentsia, as we like to say; the bourgeois are boring, tired, so, well, eighties. I don’t want to have anything to do with it, so why should I complain?