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As an example, I'll always cite Vibe magazine's coverage of all the bullshit... I remember that they were the main ones interested in fanning the flames of the beef, with various covers and articles, but then when both cats got killed, they did an about-face and tried to wash their hands of their role in the situation, on some "Hip Hop Nation, When Will the Violence Stop, Y'all?" steez... and yeah, that's only one example, but I think that's what Puff was getting at...
There was another, less grim example, back in the early 2000s... I'm out here in L.A., and this was back when there were two big hip hop radio stations... well, there were various beefs going on back then (though I can only remember the Kurupt-DMX beef over Foxy Brown)... and of course, they played ALL the diss records from each artist that was beefing with someone else (sometimes repeating tracks over and over again repeatedly)... well, if I remember, someone got killed or badly hurt, and the next thing you know, one of the stations decided to air PSAs talking about "hey, let's stop the violence in our communities, y'all"... ironically enough, the instrumental music that they chose as the background score for these important, community-serving PSAs was none other than Dr. Dre's "Bitch Niggaz"... ________________________________________________________________________ Your battleship has sunk I wish Grandma could see us...
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