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"The character Tony Montana went from poor to mad rich by selling coke. He made tons of young cats want to sell cocaine too, including me."
-Azie Faison
"After watching Scarface, I wanted to be the Tony Montana of Harlem. I easily made more than $40000 a week, and became a millionaire before reaching voting age. I was on a paper chase."
-Azie Faison
Both from his book.
If it's art, it's art. To say we need to censor rappers or that rappers are the root a gun violence problem alone is unfair. Art is art. There are impressionable minds if course, but that doesn't stop Quentin Tarantino from sensationalizing violence.
The issue is these communities are more susceptible to falling into this lifestyle for a myriad of factors. Broken households, lack of role models, lack of education, poverty.
To just pin it on Rap is cheap and ignores the real issues in favor of villainizing another group of black and brown men.
-Azie Faison
"After watching Scarface, I wanted to be the Tony Montana of Harlem. I easily made more than $40000 a week, and became a millionaire before reaching voting age. I was on a paper chase."
-Azie Faison
Both from his book.
If it's art, it's art. To say we need to censor rappers or that rappers are the root a gun violence problem alone is unfair. Art is art. There are impressionable minds if course, but that doesn't stop Quentin Tarantino from sensationalizing violence.
The issue is these communities are more susceptible to falling into this lifestyle for a myriad of factors. Broken households, lack of role models, lack of education, poverty.
To just pin it on Rap is cheap and ignores the real issues in favor of villainizing another group of black and brown men.
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