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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

Hip-Hop Cops

I had to do it again for the support duke has given me. Once again, here's Boston's own Mighty Casey...


If I was an asshole the easiest job I could think of would be to be a hip hop cop. Rappers are the most blatant stupid criminals possible. You won’t need any wiretaps, photographs, surveillance or informants; just watch these guys dry snitch on themselves on record, YouTube and interviews.  Don’t get me wrong cops are assholes for fuckin with rappers rather than dealing with real criminals like rapists and murderers but hey this is America, the police love arresting celebrities and they love arresting black males, so rappers are like a wet dream for cops. Knowing such one would think that rappers would be more cautious concerning law enforcement.  Mafia dons have gone to extreme measures to hide there conversations, affiliations and dealings from the cops, from speaking in codes, secret meetings etc. most of what I know about law enforcement comes from watching the Wire. I’ve seen McNulty and Freeman go to extreme measures to decode beeper messages, drug talk and text messages going through extreme measures to get warrants and such. The Hip Hop cops should have it so hard, they don’t need to be smart to catch rappers, they don’t need to decode any messages all they need to know is basic slang, YouTube, some mixtape and albums, and the latest blogs to hear the radio interviews to find out a rappers cohorts, organizational structures, enemies, hang out spots, guns and drugs of choice. Rappers are probably the easiest targets besides bimbo actresses. Maybe if rappers want to avoid police they should stop bragging about their drug use, weapons, gang affiliations and criminal past and or present on record.
With all the recent arrests of rap artists one might wonder if the Hip-Hop cops are paying extra attention to rap due to the recent controversies. With Ja Rule and Lil Wayne both getting arrested the same night, is rapper profiling at an all time high. Given what I’ve read both artists will where arrested in Manhattan after cops smelled the scent of marijuana and raided their respective tour buses and Maybachs. No offense but I ain’t think the Hip Hop cops had shit to do with it. This is Manhattan fuckers you ain’t gotta be a rapper to be arrested all you gotta be is black, spitting on the sidewalk riding your bike on a sidewalk looking suspicious to get searched, having a burner and weed on you ain’t helping.  Was their extra police presence at the show I’m sure given the rate of violence at Hip Hop concerts and violence as well as violence between rappers you have to expect po-po to be deep out there, y’all ain’t hear Raekwon ‘mad police in Manhattan.’ Smarten up rappers you know they’re watching be cool. Cops love arresting blacks, celebrities and people who flaunt their illegal wealth, rappers fall in all 3 categories. Cam’Ron was on Hot 97 a while back talking about how his probation officer found out about his 50 beef through YouTube. If probation officers are getting on YouTube, the hip-hop cops must have every, mixtape, DVD, interview and album to find out about beefs and criminal affiliations.
I was arrested a few months ago for buying piff uptown, wasn’t fragrantly smoking in public just buying some weed, despite my many spins on BET UnCut I doubt the Hip Hop cops had anything to do with it. I was just the wrong color wrong place wrong time. It ain’t the rapper profiling I’m worried, its racial profiling every day thousands of black males without record deals are harassed wrongfully arrested beaten and generally mistreated. Black males who never proclaimed themselves on record to be gangstas, criminals, carry keys, guns and weed.  Just fucked with by the cops cuz of their color. It’s the brutality and the racism that affects black males without lawyer money that bothers me. Its messed up that rappers have to get fucked with but its kinda like running by a pitbull with a slab of meat in your back pocket and then complaining what assholes pitbulls are when they bite you in the ass. Cops are assholes black people have been for a long time; it’s your job as a criminal and or African American to make it as hard as possible for the cops to fuck with you. If a man named himself Billy bin Laden and sung songs about blowing up planes and rolling with Al Qaeda, do you think he might get harassed a little more at the airport? If George Michael had a song called Child Porn surfing don’t you think Dateline’s to catch a predator would have a fake 12 year old decoy boy hitting him up on instant messenger. Its kind of like Chappelle’s joke about women who dress like hookers complaining about being treated like hookers, if your shirt says you sell drugs, you pose with guns on DVD and constantly rap about criminal activity, how do you think police are going to treat you? The problem with gangsta rappers is that in order to be a successful rapper must expose your criminal past, connections and knowledge as much as possible and as a criminal, to be successful you should hide any criminal connections to avoid attention from the law. Anyone who has watched the history channel knows that gangstas always start their downfall when they start getting flashy and want to become celebrities. Recently BMF had several indictments on them in which the DA specifically mentioned their billboard in downtown Atlanta, one might think that their connections in the Hip Hop world might’ve also motivated the law to go after them especially as Hip Hop bling man Jacob the Jeweler was caught in their previous rounds of indictments.
Rapper profiling doesn’t seem like a major issue to me yet. The recent arrests of most rappers seem to stem from their own stupidity rather than ‘rapper’ profiling. Right before Ja Rule was arrested he was on YouTube wearing a supreme team shirt, connecting himself once again to the infamous gang that terrorized queens for years, and received numerous prosecutions from the government. Even Jon Gotti never wore a Gambino family T-Shirt and he suffered enough persecution from police. Rapper profiling has yet to affect revolutionary, positive Christian, humorous or abstract yet, so it seems the only profiling being done is on the gangsta rappers. Cops fuck with gangstas if you don’t want cops fuckin with you quit telling the world, you a gun packing, drug dealing weed smoking, violent gangsta, if you can’t stand the heat stay out the kitchen.     
When Ja was arrested he gave a Scarface-esque speech on how hip-hop isn’t what’s wrong with America it’s the media or the system not quite sure (say goodbye to the bad guy, you need me to point your finger at). However if Hip Hop wasn’t so busy playing the bad guy maybe it could actually make some legitimate attacks on the system but now one wants to here a neighborhood poisoning killer talking about the social ills of America. Mind you Ja Rule is the same rapper who proclaimed on a mixtape ‘murder inc, we laundering money nigga!!!!’
    With Hip-Hop under attack from the media it seems more than likely we’ll se a lot more rapper arrests in the future. Prosecutors want to be District Attorneys, District attorneys want to be governors, police chiefs want to be mayors and they all need bad guys to scapegoat to make them look like good guys for the upcoming elections. Now that Hip Hop has alienated the forces that would defend them Al Sharpton and the NAACP aren’t gonna fight for the same rappers they believe are denigrating the community. Cochran is dead now so all rappers got left is to keep on making their Jewish attorneys rich. Most likely most high profile rappers will be able to beat their cases sacrificing only lawyer fees and the occasional weed carrier. However as people’s attitudes towards hip hop change, even the black jurors who tend to be older will turn their backs on hip hop as support for hip hop from the black community (hip hop aside) has been eroding.
Even though we’re supposed to have freedom of speech and artistic license here in the US, this rarely applies to black people. In an ideal world, one should be able to say they what they want and not have to have the police fuck with them based on their ‘artistic’ statements, but this is far from an ideal world. Politicians and cops are assholes who want to seem like good guys and rappers are willing to play the role of the bad guys giving them the necessary distractions from real issues like the war, poverty and education, police brutality etc.  In the rap game it seems as if street cred has trumped creativity and skill as the number one factor in being a successful MC. But with that street cred comes police attention. Organized crime and the music business have gone hand in hand since prohibition when jazz cats had to play in illegal speakeasies. However you never heard Frank Sinatra shouting out my Carlo Gambino and the Five Families. They kept it on the low. Biggie once said real gangstas move in silence, if so these rap cats with their loud ass bragging on they guns drugs and thugs are the furthest thing from real.
If you a successful rapper and you don’t think your being watched do some research, read Derrick Parker’s book Notorious COP, the Hip Hop cops have been around for a while now nothing new, they got files on every major rapper for 4 years now.
Rappers you are being watched so act accordingly. Don’t expect Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP or any other civil right organization for help, Hip Hop had them jump ship years ago. Rapper profiling's here to stay you can’t want to have the whole world believe you’re a gangsta except for the police. Cops love fuckin with young rich black men and you guys are making it very easy. When rappers are advertising their price for kilos, drug habits, guns and gang affiliations for their street it puts them in a tough position, either admit you were lying and lose your street cred or say they were telling the truth and deal with the cops. One kid from my neighborhood once played me a track in which he bragged about what corner he sold drugs on, what drugs he sold for what prices and even who he got his re up from everything but a signed confession. If your black in America you don’t need to say you’re a criminal to get treated like one, so until the po-po starts targeting underground humor rappers, I’ll be way more worried about racial profiling than rapper profiling.

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