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Discuss “"It's not sweet in the streets"”

Rob ?Biko? Baker didn?t take long to lose his sweatshirt at his talk last Wednesday. Underneath was a blue T-shirt that read, ?Kanye was right.? But Baker wasn?t there to bash Bush, who Kanye West famously said doesn?t care about black people. Rather, Baker was there to bash 50 Cent. In the wake of the Waterfront Loews Cineplex shooting, Baker, author of The Source?s article, ?G-Unot! Is Corporate Rap?s Top Unit Fading Fast??, decided to speak at Urban Youth Action about the image of ?gangsta? rap and hip-hop.

Baker started right in on his criticism of rap?s image. ?A lot of those things you see in the videos, the chains [and] the rims... they?re rented,? he said.

Baker wrote on the board behind him a diagram of all the people that make money...

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Comment 1. britt
Apr 12, 2008 at 10:03 PM

im sorry but to this day i do not believet he get rich or die tryin movie was the cause of sheltons death i believe if he even saw a different movie he would have still been shot it was nothing dealing with the moviei twa s him and the three men that were in it.

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