Dylann Roof was arrested yesterday (June 18) for allegedly shooting and killing nine people inside of Emanuel AME church in South Carolina.
“We don’t know who we’re around,” Nas says regarding the incident to Vibe. “Every day we’re walking around and we don’t know.”
The Queens, New York rapper says that he hopes mental illness can be identified and cured from an early age to prevent incidences like this from happening again.
Mental illness is not the only problem that America faces, the rapper says.
“How do we heal them today?” he says. “How do we make them more respectful of each other, no matter what race you are? Racism has rotten America. It’s been rotting America since America’s inception. This is a time, a very serious time that we are moving into 2015.”
Many artists responded to the shooting via social media.
For additional Nas coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
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NO ONE CONSIDERS MIND CONTROL!!!! Of course with the background calling the shots with racism in the mix! I ain’t no bright bulb in the bunch, I’m just yo brother!!!But this has been in past incidences if you dig deep an mo used by who else but those in high places,we war not with flesh, y’all know the rest.Crazy plea coming!!! Same script, same no!
It’s so deep rooted in society that there is no fighting it anymore. White kids with no direction are being taken in by racist scum and fed hatred, and this is the result.
A white supremacist meeting needs to be promoted, encouraged and held in the Superdome…..then drop a bomb on the muhfucka!
racism isnt cripplling america..the media and their image is..im white and ive yet to run into real racist black ppl.. i mean ive gotten words here and there growing up but never anythign serious..and ive yet to see white ppl rly be racist to blacks and i hang around both alot
Every single black person I have ever met has been racist as shit. Not just to white people, but Asians and Arabs too. It’s so shameless.
@imho…..What you have yet to run into may be YOUR reality, but its not actual reality. As long as people have ethnic and cultural differences, the sick, uneducated and afraid will continue to spread their brand of hate and racism. I can agree that the media plays a huge role in escalating and capitalizing off of these sensitive issues. Its what they do best. @rekkington….the shamelessness here is your ignorance and lack of worldly/cultural experience. Get out of your mother’s bedroom every once and a while.
White American Supremacists like you make me the fuck sick especially when they listen to hip hop and probably act like they know it all. How about you just shut the fuck up? Racism is as relevant as it was 150 years ago if not more. And there is no such thing as a black racist dude.
Where the fuck you live…
@katara
No black racists?? Hahaha..man thats a good one. They are the most racist around. And whenever whatever happens to them they always play the race card. Maybe its time to justs stay in school, go to college. Or you could just keep gangbanging. Slinging crack. Knock up 16 year old girls..and leave them. These people chose to stay like this. Jails locked up with people who care more about some fuckin bullshit code than their own lives.
Open up a history book and you will see how white America has done the Africano ppl. Stop being so damn stupid white ppl invented racism.
Shut up, Nas! Your shit is garbage, now you trying to kick knowledge? Fuck outta here.
Shut thee whole fuck up.
shut up hater
Nas the GOAT!
White ppl love to change the subject when Yal on front street. Fuck outta here
Hey, I may be white but that just means I am right about Nash.
Fuck this left wing liberal cultural marxist washed up middle aged black man
He is jay’s bitch
Hey Nas
Why don’t you go back to Africa
You fuckin spear chugger
and you should go back to Greece
Look at nas trying to be all pretty in that picture.. old man in his 40s tryna be all cute and meterosexual.. all dolled up for jay-z
remember when jay-z signed nas just to make sure his albums would not be worth shit or get a release date
What in the f*ck are you talking about? Are you that much of a Stan dude that in the wake of tragedy, you wanna talk about who signed who and how another dude looks? GTFOH-ignorance will no longer be tolerated.
I couldn’t hear you. Take Hovs balls outta your mouth next time
What are you talking about little dude?
People need to be racist to build up their self esteem. In their own race they are losers so they at least need to feel better than minorities. Even the haters on here that claim some one is old are just tryn to undermine their achievements because they made it. Love all ya
this is just an isolated incident. but there are still people who are in high places that feel superior because of the color of their skin. This little nobody assed dude killed people and doesn’t even understand why.
I think a nations thats divided you always be some f***** up shit but in the same distance together this is stronger but that would never happenI think a nation that is divided you always be some f***** up shit but in the same distance together this is stronger but that would never happen
As long as racism is socially accepted, it will continue to plaque minorities, in general. (Know your facts)
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I expected nothing but ignorance in the comments once I saw the article headline. Difference now is the world will see you clowns exist and have always been this way so whatever you try to make it seem like American Blacks are such a worldly problem, the actions will show it’s the white American that’s the root of the situation.
Ignorance is a nice way to put it.
Every race is the root of the problem.
I’m not surprised at the racism comments on here. It just shows how sick white America is, and as been for hundreds of years now. The world is starting to see how Yal really are.
Racist*
Everyone is starting to see how narrow minded your comment is.