tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508515983039535869.post9084261008016058593..comments2023-10-23T06:48:35.135-07:00Comments on Hip Hop Law: When Rappers Had Day Jobs: The Rick Ross Credibility ConundrumHipHopLaw.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805407660957118078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508515983039535869.post-72799646761855297932011-08-23T08:25:40.578-07:002011-08-23T08:25:40.578-07:00T pain is also good rapper but now B.O.B is one of...T pain is also good rapper but now B.O.B is one of most popular.dress pantshttp://www.mensusa.com/tools.aspx?id=125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508515983039535869.post-44420146884655931042011-01-23T21:52:35.372-08:002011-01-23T21:52:35.372-08:00Only in hip hop is having a legit job and not bein...Only in hip hop is having a legit job and not being a criminal considered a bad thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508515983039535869.post-5975971995033851632009-05-15T15:55:00.000-07:002009-05-15T15:55:00.000-07:00Excellent question about whether the influence is ...Excellent question about whether the influence is positive. We will see what the answer is over time. I would add that we also should ask which who is influencing whom? Theoretically, more diversity on police forces is a good thing. But several high profile brutality cases in New York recently have involved officers of color. If the hip-hop judges, cops, etc. are to have the effect that we want, they must influence the prevailing culture more than they are co-opted by it.Horace Andersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508515983039535869.post-5252454570501313012009-05-15T05:01:00.000-07:002009-05-15T05:01:00.000-07:00professor anderson:
truth be told, my guess is th...professor anderson:<br /><br />truth be told, my guess is that there are MANY hip hop cops, hip hop correctional officers and are beginning to be more and more hip hop judges and hip hop mayors. hip hop has infiltrated the world and its messages have influenced millions.<br /><br />the question is whether the influence has been a positive one. are hip hop cops and hip hop co's more willing to treat criminals fairly or with greater disdain? are hip hop judges and hip hop mayors more prone to equality and fairness? have they been influenced more forcefully by chuck d., krs-one and talib kweli or do they take their cues from fifty, eminem and lil' wayne?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508515983039535869.post-3666334193051030822009-05-14T20:00:00.000-07:002009-05-14T20:00:00.000-07:00Horace,
Great post. Along these lines... Many h...Horace, <br /><br />Great post. Along these lines... Many hip-hop artists have also gone to great schools (high schools and colleges), are successful entrepreneurs, have stable family lives, and more characteristics that the mass produced image of hip-hop might not embrace. Furthermore, these artists may in fact rap about events that run contrary to their own experience. <br /><br />It seems to me that it is time we sought to expand notions of credibility and/or authenticity to include, not exclude, individuals from hip-hop. If one has to be a criminal, a drug user or seller, or misogynistic to be respected in hip-hop, then hip-hop's defeating itself. To define an individual by one marker, such as defining Rick Ross as a former corrections officer, is an act in hijacked subjectivity. Who are these Ross critics to whittle away at his credibility based on one aspect of his character that they find disagreeable. Does being a CO really eliminate one’s ability to be a hip-hop artist, to be Black, to understand urban issues? There are law professors with criminal records. Should they not be able to teach criminal law? Should police officers with speeding tickets not be police officers? Such reasoning seems to go too far because it reconstitutes subjectivity in such a narrow way that it limits people being people. It conforms them to such rigid molds that individuality and breadth of experience is eroded.Nick J. Sciullohttp://ssrn.com/author=981024noreply@blogger.com