Some of ya’ll are idiots and im not talking figuratively im talking literally. NONE of your SO called artist are literally in the streets . Thats why i respect HOV because he grew with his music unless he making a point. 50cent sold hand to hand crack but calls himself a dealer smdh..he did 3 months in shock treatment but says he did a 3-9 …. What else Killers you know in the rap game? Now catch up on there history.. Them dudes never No rapper ever did Hard time with the exception of Maino and shine (and thats after the fact he didnt want to look soft and though he had a chance to beat the case) These rappers be like 20 yrs old acting like they made millions before rap ..

These N&&az be soft stunting making less than a grand a week doing dumb ish by hand to hand drug sales catching minor charges might as well get a real job… they start rapping like they got bread..they lease a car and its gone in a year or two (watch your neighborhood hustlers) These same dudes start rapping talking about what they have and its never much all they have to show is a car and fugazy jewels they buy downtown in china town ask to see their accounts they may have 5 grand if that they can cause they dont own nothing but the clothes on there back 90% live at home cars are lease etc etc

sorry for the long writing but These are the Younginz thats rapping At the end its rapping EVEN cash money was stunting till they made it..Even in bling bling with the rented helicopter that never even left the ground and their biggest car was a stretch PT cruiser etc etc now baby comparing his money to Jayz lmao the whole industry is fake and its all entertainment cause no one is shooting stealing and selling or robbing no one

@…Info, Thx for weighing in on the topic. It’s okay for one to state an opinion but there’s no need for internet thugs/bully…
cause of you TheScholar got all edumacated on the blog LOL

As for the Soph vs sophists vs Plato and the psychs who dissected their writings….ad nauseum ; )…..I didn’t retain much from those classes on the Canon, lol. When I read my goal is usually to get out of my head, not make more of mess inside of it.

Ad Hominem Argumentum is an error in reasoning when one attacks a person’s character rather than their argument. It’s a fallacy.

Sophocles and the sophists are not identical. Sophocles was a Greek playwright. He wrote the famous “Oedipus Tyrannus,” which Freud perverted and used for his own purposes. The sophists were philosophical charlatans who made weak arguments appear as strong ones. Interestingly enough, Plato despised Sophocles and the sophists. While Nietzsche applauded both. But Nietzsche, more often than not, despised Plato. Go figure.

okay cool I get it…

Y’all riding with Ross cause y’all like his music… I for one can’t F…k with it but aight!

but wait???? you said and I quote

“of course he’s [Rick Ross] not doing those things, but he’s a living metaphor for a real gangsta.”

C’mon son lol I cant event take you seriously after that B.S.

Not knowing an artist does not prohibit you from defending an art.

Not only in America do people feel this way. One need only look at the sophists to see the same thinking at work in antiquity.