The Rest in Peace Thread (RIP)

[Lucem Ferre]

It's the standard conservative take to bash hip hop in general and search for reasons to dismiss the genre. Especially these days when hip hop just might bring us the first transgender superstar. The homophobia take is so outdated. It's like they don't know about Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean, Kevin Abstract & Lil Nas X being huge in the culture.

I think Adi has every right to hate and celebrate DMX's death but to me it just feels like him looking for another way to criticize black culture and bring attention to himself rather than genuine outrage because why wouldn't he bring up the dog fighting? The actual animal cruelty is far worse than some words in a song. Make all the excuses you want for DMX but who ever traumatized him probably made the same excuses too.