H-Town Shooting and Normalized Violence

Migos' star Takeoff was shot and killed outside of a Houston bowling alley.  Steve has a powerful message regarding success and what can come with the territory.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Migos rapper Takeoff was killed in an early morning shooting
in Houston yesterday. The twenty eight year old rapper in
the Migos rap group, whose name is Kurz nick Ball,
was shot and killed outside of downtown Bowling Alley where
private party was being held. Now. This is according to bystanders.
Takeoffs Uncle Quavo, also of the Migos, was arguing with

(00:25):
a group of guys. Takeoff and others had Quabos back
while he argued with the guys about playing basketball, and
then seconds later a single shot was fired. Then a
flurry of gunshots rang out armed at a crowd of bystanders.
There were reportedly more than ten shots fired from at
least two different guns. Takeoff was reportedly dead on the

(00:47):
scene with a gunshot to the head or the neck.
Houston Police Department held a press conference yesterday afternoon and
reported that a twenty three year old male and a
twenty four year old female were also shot and are
currently hospitalized. Houston Police are asking for bystanders and witnesses
to the shooting to come forward with information about what happened. Wow, wow,

(01:12):
it really is Yeah, I don't nonsense. Man has nothing
to do with anything, brother, Yeah, we really, man, we
were playing basketball. It makes no sense, man, what we're
doing out here. And I don't, I don't. I don't understand.
In the hip hop community today, it just seems like

(01:37):
there's no discussion. If you get out of line, we
kill him, carriod. If we disagree, there's an argument, it's
just gun violence. I just don't understand this, right. And
I'll tell you another sad thing too, about a code.
It's sad that when you become successful, you have to

(02:00):
pull away. You have to pull away from the things
oftentimes that are dear to you. But oftentimes a lot
of stuff you have to pull away from. It is
not what's dear to you. It's just what you were
accustomed to do it. But Steve, you can't. You can't
always go back ye stand around and participate in the

(02:22):
things you used to be able to stand around and
participate in. A hatred out there and a jealousy, evil
and a spirit out there who he think he is,
But you don't be thinking that at all. And it's
sad man that you and this happens to so many

(02:45):
by young people today, and it happens from or what
you let's let's I'm just using this as an example.
It happens too often between a celebrity and a layman.
And I'm not to make one better than the other.
I'm just using this for a term so we understand
what we're talking about. It happens too often between a

(03:06):
celebrity and a layman, meaning a famous person a non
famous person. But in your attempt to stay regular, in
your attempt to keep it real, in your attempt to
be down, you got to be conscious. Man the whole time.
You can't do regular stuff anymore. Once you become a celebrity.

(03:28):
You just can't. But you try to, Yeah, you try to.
But it seems like week after week a rapper is killed,
a hip hop artist. It's like it's like a norm
and it's it's not it's not cool. It's just not
it is. It is it is, Carla. That's absolutely true
because the generations has changed. I mean, if you look

(03:50):
at the sports world, there are no more great heavyweight
champions that are no more black great heavyweight champs. Right,
boxing used to be a means to an end in
our neighborhoods. Everybody wanted to box, to be our lead,
to be to be Joe, to be norm and to
be Sugar, to be Thomas Hearns, hitting man out of Detroit.

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Everybody wanted to be somebody because it was a way
to a means to an end. We don't have great
black heavyweight champs anymore. There are no more. There just
aren't any the weight classes. Lord, it's less of us
in boxing, and so because less of us throw hands. Now.

(04:39):
I'm from the generation of throwing hands. The video games now.
I was watching two guys the other day play this
game called Mortal Comeback. I've never seen it played before
in my life. Most people have. But I thought the
fight was over because this guy had took this acts

(05:00):
and split the dude's head open and drug him a
little bit, and then took these two knives and chopped
him in the side. I said, okay, he done. He
got his ass up and kept fighting. He got more lives.
I'm so confused, ye, I'm thinking game over. You got

(05:21):
to get you another person man this one day. No, no,
no energy pill or something he got. I don't know
what he got. And he got up again. All the
games I see now, other than Maddens and basketball, it's
all fight and killed games. This even Grand Delf thought,
O the Grand Theft Auto is a violent game. Everything

(05:43):
is violence, and they've normalized it to where these kids
they play in violenceized their music is violence. You play
in violence, Your music is violence. You're gonna be violent.
And they talked about this refle elective of our society.
But you keep putting it on these young people man

(06:05):
like man, I don't. Yeah, it's really sad, but the
same thing is happening to far too many of our
young kids who ain't celebrities. Yes, that's the real sadness.
That's true. That's true. They don't get the coverage this

(06:26):
one got. All right, all right, we're gonna move on
and switch gears a little bit here coming up at
twenty minutes after the hour. Election day is coming up
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