[Physicist]

While I can't say I follow the rap scene, I've been a longtime fan of Run-DMC. They were clever and catchy without being overly crude or losing their sense of humor. I was shocked when I heard Jam Master Jay was assassinated.

We be illin'.

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[SamAdams76]

My only familiarity with Run-DMC is their "Christmas In Hollis" recording from a Christmas album I own. Not a bad song at all, so far as rap goes.

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanks for the post. I just figured he was just another gangstah rappah. I am glad to be wrong, and sad to have lost a good one.

[Dogrobber]

I don't like rap or hip hop. Never could stand it. And I thought the Run DMC remake of "Walk this way" was something which I thought I would only hear as a joke.

However, I can't say anything bad about the artists themselves. One can not have a taste for a persons music and respect the person who performs. Jay was OK.

What really frosts me is that hip hop has been taken over by the thugs. Yes, there are sane artists performing; good men and women who care about the right kind of things, family, god, their community, obeying the law and living a right kind of life. The press, the fame, the money seems to go to the thugs like Tupac and Smalls and those examples also seem to be paraded to the world as the model for young blacks.

I know there are better models for young blacks, and I don't just mean clones of white people who'se skin is black. Decent, upstanding African Americans who don't want to sell drugs, call women "Hos" and "cap" a cop (would they want to cap Chief Moose?). Jay fit that example better than he fit the current ideal of the hip hop star and we are the worse for his departure. I just hope that when we find out who was responsible, and it will come out, that it does not reflect even more this cult of violence which seems to prevail in the hip hop culture.

My two cents, for what its worth.

[cmak9]

BTT for the recognition of a good guy. RIP, Jam.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Now he can hang out with Joey Ramone.

[What Is Ain't]

That was a nice tribute.

He sounds like a decent guy. Too bad.

[Captainpaintball]

Isn't it funny that the killers were "buzzed" up, (as if they knew them) and that while Jay was shot execution-style, the survivor was only shot in the leg? Seems strage to me...