The rap community is still digesting the news of Drakeo The Ruler’s death. The Los Angeles-born rapper was fatally stabbed in the neck backstage during the Once Upon A Time In L.A. Festival at Exposition Park on Saturday night (December 18), just hours after performing at the star-studded event.
Dipset rapper Jim Jones, who has continually preached about how “dangerous” being a rapper is, shared his thoughts via Instagram but has been met with some alternative takes on his remarks.
“Rip to this brother drakeo this is sad,” Jones wrote. “To all rappers I urge u to protect urself start to move tactical. Preservation of life is everything they do not value our lives anymore we are targeted. They know who we are cause of our fame but we don’t know who they are because of our fame. I pray everyday I make it home to my family because it’s tht serious out here for us.
“Feels like we lost a rapper every week this year. There was a time when we protected in th community we were treated as super hero’s not no more. Stay safe & stay dangerous I pray I never have to make a decision. Say ur prayers n move sturdy. Rappers have th most dangerous job in th world I stand on my statement.”
But many are calling Jim Jones’ comments hypocritical, pointing out the brawl he allegedly got into with Freddie Gibbs at a Miami steakhouse last week. As one person tweeted, “Jim Jones on IG talking bout how dangerous being a rapper is after the death drakeo like he wasn’t just giving Gibbs the Fistmas spirit smh.”
Many echoed those sentiments, with another fan writing, “I hate to say this but @jimjonescapo saying this is sort of hypocritical…he just got into a brawl at a steakhouse in Miami with another rapper. Little does he know he’s part of the same issues he’s warning of. #ripdrakeo. Rappers be safe, be smart.”
Jim Jones caught the wrath of a Iraq war veteran in February 2020 after he compared rappers to soldiers, claiming being a rapper is “more dangerous” than being a solider.
“Heard the comments you made about ‘being a rapper is harder than fighting a war in Iraq,'” the vet wrote at the time. “You allowed to have your opinion without any facts nor truth to it, but as a Vet and hip hop fan, I found it extremely disrespectful and ignorant. Here’s some facts, my unit which fought in Iraq 2004 lost more Marines in two months than ‘rappers’ in the past 3 years. Keep talking but there is zero comparison.”
Jim Jones was ready with a rebuttal and replied, “Here are facts. Every nigha I grew up wit is either dead or in jail, so u wanna compare death tolls it won’t add up. u went to army n met n-ghas U never knew or grew up wit. I grew up wit all these n-ghas all my life so it different. u wanna continue this debate.
“Yal was shooting at kids n innocent bystanders in the midst of shootin at the enemy. We was kids shootin at kids. That mentality split over to success.”
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Jones hasn’t changed his stance in a year where at least 21 rappers have been fatally shot or stabbed. Still, some people can’t help but highlight the hypocrisy of his latest statement.
So you cant get in a fight and a few days later wish someone else entirely a rest in peace? How close minded and stupid!
normal civilized people don’t get in fights past 12 years old
Yes they do, everybody lifestyle and up bringing is different. I rather beat the breaks off someone verse killing them, there’s a difference. One gets to live another day and the other dies. Ppl today rather bang, bang verse shooting the five or just letting them hands go period.
Its not the fact he said RIP. Its the fact he tried to give a lesson to rappers while engaging in similar activity himself. Read past the first line.
LMAO I SEE U JIM
They will show you 3 tweets and say the “internet is dragging jim jones” and people fall for it. Completely unnecessary, Not one of my homeboys has called me saying jim jones is a hypocrite. Maybe a washed up 45 yr old up and coming rapper, but not a hypocrite.
with a combined 10 likes. trash.
well fuck he showed a bit of sympathy didn’t he. dangerous to be in l.a..
*Farts*
Take a damn shower, Jones. Smelly bastard…
Technically, drug dealers have the most dangerous job. Fact: there are far more drug related murders than rap related murders
Big facts
There was no marks on Gibbs whatsoever so I don’t know what kind of “asswhoopin” that was supposed to be. More like it was their entourages who did the fighting
“They used to treat us like super heroes” yeah before they realized you dont give a single F about them
A lot of this traces back to the late 90s when several NYC street rappers made serious threats to black hip hop journalists. If I remember correctly it centred around Fugees and Wu, could have been others. Lots of qualified black critics and journalists stopped covering rap music at that time. It was those black critics that made Nas and Wyclef famous and created the atmosphere where a Jim Jones or Cam’Ron could feel like a superhero in the hood. Now all rap brings is shame is trash to the hood. The white critics praise the Drakeo’s of the world they don’t give a fck about our community. So what go around come around unfortunately
the reporters said the rappers threatened them because they got average reviews in the source and vibe, etc, the rappers said the reporters were on the take and that record companies paid them to boost some records and down others. probably both was true at the same time
The issue is you dont hate rap and you dont speak out. In the age of me too and lgbt black people focused on black lives matter instead of getting rid of this trash called hip hop.
yeah yeah whatever – if you’re not adding anything then bounce