but all the concert shootings happened in the 80s...you almost never hear about anyone getting shot or stabbed at a rap concert any more...sadly, in the 80s, that was a little too prevalent.

anyway, i think that what happened was, hip-hop used to be a closer knit community. i believe it was chuck d who spoke on how whodini sat him down and explained a lot of the major label game...just read an ice t article where he explained how him and kane explained the record game to a young jay z, who went on to learn from all their mistakes business-wise. nowadays, cats just come out of the blue. i mean, you think somebody mentored Nelly? so, you know, it's a matter of older rap veterans pulling aside the young cats and schooling em...as well as labels not signing people who are like, total menaces to society and show no sign of changing just cause they can rap well (i mean, mysonne was still robbing cabs after he got his deal, rigth? that's something that the a&r guy should have talked to him about: "yo, you don't have to rob cabs, that's what we gave you an advance to live on for" *sigh*).

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