Al Sharpton Says Gun Violence, Not Hip Hop, Killed Takeoff

Al Sharpton is laying into people who blame hip hop culture for Takeoff‘s murder, and says social networks just fools you into believing rap artists are more violent than society, at-large.

We overtook Rev. Al Wednesday in New York City, where he mentioned hip hop is filled with artists who are accountable and actively raise their neighborhoods. He says it’s regrettable the introduction of social networks assists to enhance violent occurrences way more than the great ones.

The Rev properly mentioned all the other music categories where violence has actually happened for years — and he mostly concurred with what Method Man informed us about the Takeoff catastrophe.

The Wu-Tang Clan star was irritated over the killed Migos rap artist’s death, and similarly irritated over all the scapegoating of rap.

In reality, Rev. Al is offering hip hop credit for being proactive when it concerns spreading out awareness versus gun violence.

Late 1980s rap tunes such as Stop the Violence Movement’s “Self Destruction” and West Coast All Stars’ “We’re All In The Same Gang” are proof of that.

Sharpton likewise remembers R&B vocalists entering shootouts prior to the supremacy of rap … a reality to which superproducer Teddy Riley can guarantee.

In 1989, entourages for Teddy’s group Guy and New Edition started beefing … causing NE’s production supervisor Ronald Byrd fatally shooting Guy’s security chief, Anthony Bee.