“aspiring rapper”
Surely, even the most cloistered of leftwing journalists now realize how absurd and cliched it is to use that term. Don’t they? Please?
Funny how many aspiring rappers become expiring rappers.
They use it here because Bowie Richard was largely an exception to what we normally find in “aspiring rappers.” This victim was by all accounts not in a gang, or into drugs or violence. He had a full time job, a wife and two kids. And the Facebook page is downright tame compared to most “rappers”. Finally he is white. In other words when the next thug is described as an aspiring rapper they want you to think of this guy.