Rappers React To Alton Sterling Police Shooting

Baton Rouge, LA – Alton Sterling is the latest name to be made into a hashtag after the 37-year-old man was shot and killed by police as he sold CDs outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge.

Many in Hip Hop mourned Sterling’s death as another victim of police brutality. Some called for true action beyond social media. Others expressed sadness, disbelief and anger.

Sterling’s death comes after Hip Hop rallied around the families of Michael Brown, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Samuel Dubose and others who were killed by police officers without the proper protocol being followed.

All we gone do is repost it & type "SMH" over & over again huh ?? Then we gone put #JusticeForAltonSterling & #BlackLivesMatter hashtags on Instagram & pretend that's us taking action huh ??? What happened to the generation of people who stood together, held hands & took to the streets peacefully or violently if it had to come to that & wouldn't move or be detoured from that stance until real results were handed over to us ?!?!? Huh ??? WTF is wrong with us these days that we will sit here & watch a video of yet another innocent man shot & killed in cold blood by police officers in this country ?!?!? WTF is wrong with ME, YOU & everyone else who will watch the video & read this caption & DO NOTHING until it happens again… Then what we gone do ?? The same shit we been doing… Hashtag #JUSTICEFOR[insert name here__________] & #BLACKLIVESMATTER when it really seems that they don't at all… & if #BLACKLIVES don't even matter to #BLACKPEOPLE why the fuck would they matter to anyone else ?!?!?!? What on earth is wrong with US ?!?!?!? But lemme stop so we can get back to turning up, dab'n & hittin "them folks" while this man lay dead in a county morgue for selling some fucking CD's & asking what he was being detained for ?!!?!?!?!? NAW, fuck this……. WE AINT HAVIN THIS SHIT NO MORE !!!!!!!!!!! #THETIMETOFIGHTBACKISNOW !!!!! #MartinLutherKing got shot on a fuckin balcony because he wasn't scared to stand up for our parents, grandparents & US…. The reason our black asses can even do 1/2 the shit we do is because that man sacrificed his life along with many others so we could….. & we ain't even got enough heart to stand together as a RACE & pay them back !!!! #IMNOTSCARED #FAKECARINGASSGENERATION #WHOELSEOUTTHEREGONEFAKECARE ??? #WEAINTGONEDOSHITBUTREPOSTANDHASHTAG #SCARYASSRACE #AMERICAREMOVED

A video posted by The Game (@losangelesconfidential) on Jul 5, 2016 at 11:10pm PDT

Executed this man about selling bootleg DVDs! Smh it's only gone get worst! They don't care about us!

A video posted by Meek Mill (@meekmill) on Jul 5, 2016 at 11:21pm PDT

Selling…………..cds? W…….T…..F????? This cop was deranged and KNEW he was gonna DO this one day-it was a matter of when AND who

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 6, 2016

IF anything THIS proves why the term #BlackLivesMatter is the CRYOUT to the rest of the Planet Earth from this United States Of America.

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 6, 2016

Angry tweets, marching, protesting,none of that shit works. We have to speak economically. We generate BILLIONS, and retain none of it.

— XZIBIT (@xzibit) July 6, 2016