Dear Lil Wayne, Stop Promoting The Bloods
Dear Lil Wayne,
My friend brought over your mixtape , No Ceilings, the other day and I gave it a listen. I have to say I was impressed. You clearly are a talented rapper with an excellent ability to ride beats, clever wordplay and smart punchlines.
Still one thing about the mixtape disturbed me. Your constant references to the Blood gang and soo woops seem like something a 15 year old kid might be saying, not a veteran rapper who has been in the game for more than 10 years.
I realize that many people in poor neighborhoods join gangs because of peer pressure, the threat of other gangs, for a way to make money and for a sense of family. Still, you have been a professional rapper earning money since you were 14. What reason did you have for joining the Bloods? It seems that you are claiming the Bloods to increase your street credibility and help your record sales.
After the Derrion Albert beating, we see the negative effects gangs have on African American youth. Everyday, gang violence leads to teenagers in the hood getting stabbed, shot or jumped. As the “Best Rapper Alive,” when you start bigging up a gang it makes it seem cool to your young fans. These young fans who use your slang, dress like you dress and idolize you, now want to be in a gang like you.
I know you don’t think you’re a role model. Still your record label, BET and urban and pop radio are constantly marketing your music to children between the ages of 10 and 14. When they play you Lollipop single on BET, the kids who watch you buy your album and mixtapes and get to hear all your Blood gang propaganda.
Hopefully, your time in jail will give you time to reflect about your actions. Gang violence is a big problem for young black males. In L.A. two thirds of all youth killings are gang related. Gang members are 60 times more likely to be killed than non gang members.
Being in the Bloods might be cool for you, but for the thousands of kids in the hood who join, it is a deadly choice, that far to often leads them to jail or the morgue.
Please, for the sake of your impressionable fans and the image of African Americans across the world, stop promoting the Bloods. You are a very clever young man with more power than you may know.
Sincerely
Casey Gane-McCalla
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« Previous 1 2 3 4I been a little rock piru blood since 91 rip to all my fallen soldiers chris d, eric allen, harold brown, aron williams, damion freeman, lil pedro, real bloods fallen soldiers some killed by other blood gangs so to them niggas wayne jim baby U AINT MY SET U AINT MY FRIEND I DONT GIVE A F**K BOUT THAT FAKE S**T THEY FAIRY TALE ANYWAY EIGHT BALL PIRUS ALL DAY
Fuc^ lil wayne, jim jones, baby those niggaz are millenium bangers, they just started hollerin that blood s**t a couple years ago. I been crippin since in elementary school at the age of 12, im 26 now which means i been down since 95, and im from new york a lot of niggaz aint know what a crip or blood was at that time. 14 years later i see these grown ass men now joining a gang and throwin up gang signs, the same s**t i was doin 14 years ago, this whole rap game is full of cb4 niggas.
I understand about street credibility, but let me just say as a mother of a 12 year old boy. It’s hard to compete with Lil Wayne. You can holler Blood all you, want you know why, cause people respect people who came from nothing and got something. I’m 28 and I can’t hate on Wayne or any other rapper who came from nothing and got something. I just hope that parents who have struggled to give their kids a better life explain to their kids that hard work and perserverance got them where they are now. I try to tell my 12 year old who has an absentee father that! I respect 50, Lil Wayne, Jay Z. Anyone who had it hard and made something out of their misfortune.
are u all stupid or what….snoop claimed crip because he really was one and he was reflecting his life in the street in his music because back then, rap really was about the street and also hes been consistent since he came out….lil wayne aint never been no damn blood and now all of a sudden its “blood” this and “blood” that which says he is exploiting the gang culture for some sort of credit. so quit comparing snoops real gang ties to a fake industry gangbanger like lil wayne…totally different..we know thats snoops past but wayne is brand new with this s**t
its a damn shame when gang-members are tellin “role-models” rite from wrong…smh…wtf
Lil wayne and jim jones both suck. I don’t know why anyone one listen to anything they had to say…much less join a gang because of them.
when snoop promoted the crips for 20 years nobody said a word,had kids cripwalking on tv,and promoting. why? i dont promote either one ,but lets keep it 100,i’m a muslim,so i feel its got to be a better way to holla at weezy without trying to destroy his past. thats his-story not yours..as-salaam alaikum
I STILL SAY-IF YOUR IN A GANG OF ANY KIND your IGNORANT and CAN’T THINK FOR YOURSELF-YOUR A COWARD IN BEHIND A GUN AN A GROUP OF N!GGAS WHO REALLY WHEN IT COME DOWN TO THE FED RUN’ING IN ON YOUR A$$ AND YOU GET INFRONT OF THAT JUDGE AND GOING TO DEATH ROW-IS WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU DONE WAS FU^CKED UP AND YOUR SORRY FOR WHAT YOU DONE. BECAUSE IN THE END NOBODY IS GOING TO LAY DOWN THERE LIFE FOR YOU TO WALK AWAY FREE. IF YOU WANT TO KILL OR GO HARD AND BE A GOON…GO FIGHT IN THIS WAR AND SEND OUR TROOPS HOME. THAT WAY YOU WILL BE LOOKED AT AS A HERO AND NOT A ZERO AKA(DUMB IGNORANT A$$ N!GGA)PLUS YOU GET PAID. GANG VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE NOMATTER WHICH GANG YOUR IN-YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER AND WONDERING WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXTS…ITS TO MANY(BLACK) PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED AND DONE NOTHING WRONG AND SO MANY WHO KEEPING DYING FOR ALL THE WRONG REASON. YOUR FREE LEARN TO LIVE WITH BEING FREE-WITHOUT ALL THE OTHER PROBLEMS…LIFE IS HARD AS IT IS-WHY ADD ON MORE THAN WHAT YOU CAN HANDLE? THINK FOR YOURSELF DON’T GO BACK BEING A SLAVE-WITH A SLAVE MIND AND GIVE UP WHAT SO MANY OF OUR ANCESTOR FAUGHT AND DIED FOR…YOUR FREEDOM.(JUST KEEPING IT REAL)
All I have to say on this is . . . I’m from Louisiana, and it’s not real “gang bangin” around these parts. I moved back down here from Cali when I was 13 people claimed blood and crips blah blah but it was just claiming not real. That has faded out, it’s a few knuckleheads still hold on to that but its dead around here. I can’t speak on N.O. not from there but some of my friends from there never talked about gangs! To each his own though
Wow really all this gang s**t is bull. Grown ass people playing follow the leader. Bright idea do your own s**t for a change.
LOL how r u goin to put down your soulja rag for a red rag LOL BABY fake for that 1 so i guess lil wayne stunting like his daddy LOL, fake ni….. hang together(JIM JONES)NO REAL STREET CREDIT N THEM LOS ANGELES NI….. SHOULD NOT TOLERATE FAKENESS LOL. “NEW ORLEANS FOR LIFE” YALL KNOW HOW WE GET DOWN!!!! (L.9TH WARD)CTC
LOL how u goin to put your soulja rag down for a red rag LOL
I dont understand when snopp dogg was crip this cuz that wasnt nobody trippin. The country took the crip walk by storm now finally some niggas is try to rep it for the Blood gang niggas starting to trip I say let these niggas rep. Blood gang was the minority now we showin that we on top. Ruuu Power,Money,Cars and Hoes U KNOW
lol it lil gay wayne..lol
WHY THE F_U_C-K EVERY BLACK MAN GOT 2 BE THE LAST ACTION HERO
PEOPLE JUST WANNA LIVE THEY LIFE BUT WHEN WE GET FAMOUS WE GOT 2 TRY 2 B SUPER SAVE A NIGGA
RASIE YO OWN GOT DAMN KIDS AND STOP LETTING THEM LISTEN 2 MUSIC U DONT WANT THEM 2 HEAR
EVERYBODY THAT GET FAMOUS DONT WANNA B A ROLE MODEL THEY WANNA DO THEM AND ENJOY THEY LIFE IF U DONT LIKE IT DONT FORCE PEOPLE 2 BE YO KIDS HERO DAT YO FU CING JOB
Lil Wayne is a dick riding p***y flow nicca. Wack rappers took over hip hop. I dont understand. His rhymes are so ABC 123. I guess you have to be hella ignorant and ghetto to think its good.
tha homie t rodgers speakin some real s**t….dont claim it if u aint it…period…some real gangsta/soldier types have died behind that s**t
I see a lot of you arent up on the use of gangs today…A lot of gangs outside of cali are only used to pushed drugs…Thats all his blood gang is, he’s not bout to throw down with no crips or nothin, just a form of franchising the blood gang…so anyone can be a crip, blood, piru, vl, gd, folk, u name it…is it legit…i think not
THEM SOUTH RAPPERS LIKE LIL WAYNE ARE FAKE AND THEY’RE GAY! ARE THE BLOODS ACCEPTING HOMOS NOW. GIVE ME A BREAK, LIL WAYNE KISSED A GROWN MAN THAT IS HIS “PRETEND DADDY.” HINT: HE’S PRETENDING TO BE A BLOOD. DBL IMPAQ, “HIP HOP APOCALYPSE”
born and raised in new orleans all my life and still wondering where the bloods and crips at, they know not to come down here . Yea you got a few peeps claiming but trust me you come down here you wont see them like talking about it. new orleans one of the few major citys without a gang problem but they do got killers down here . 7th ward all day
first of all ….the joke is on all of u….lil wayne aint a blood…he know he aint a blood..and everybody in south louisiana knows he aint a blood….and WHY does everyone know that…..???????…….
CUZ WE DONT GANG BANG DOWN HERE!!!!!!…….north louisiana…shreveport..monroe…..yes….they gang bang
but DOWN HERE….its white t…against white t…mono y mono…..period…no ifs ands or butts
and second…its entertainment….if he made part of his gimmick gang banging with red…thats what he did….so…..all yall IDIOTS thats gang bangin….who cares…..ALL MEN down here….with big super fine country WOMEN!!!!……eat some GUMBO!
anybody thats thinks lil wayne is a real blood is just as stupid as wayne is. i’m so proud tha real bloods are stepping up and calling him out. wayne needs to stop. how u banging and u always on the road and staying in 1000 a night hotels.and u got dudes in the street losing thier life everyday in the streets and this nigga wayne faking the funk cause he think its cool.stop being a fake wayne. before this s**t cause u your life.
people can be doing anything, you never know.
Lil wayne is a buster. He’s not a real blood. Check ur history, lil wayne is confused, I am a crip from L.A. and you would never catch a crip wearing a red rag. (lil wayne has several pictures wearing a blue rag around his head). That is a major violation that will get u killed. Jus be who u r. Ever since Mac 10 went to N.O. and showed them boys some love, he took that as his ticket to claim blood and get some street cred. True enough i’m sure he knows some of them but he’s not 1. He NEVER put in work for the hood nor did he ever get courted into the gang. The reason u know that he never did any of this is because he’s been in front of a T.V. camera most of his life which would make that damn near impossible. And he was scared for his life in L.A. when some real crips got at him. If he keeps this up, some real bloods will be at him soon enough. U can’t hide behind tattoos, that don’t make u a gangsta. Keep it real lil wayne and just be urself
All these rappers are fake. Black people need to stop idolizing these fools. They are controlled by white people to keep black people stupid. These guys are just being used as puppets to help perpetuate eugenics in the black community.
BLACK PEOPLE WAKE UP!