Fat Joe addresses the recent death of rapper PnB Rock.
PnB Rock recently became a victim of armed robbery, as he was killed at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles in LA where he was having dinner with his girlfriend Stephanie Sibounheuang. Fat Joe, who made an appearance on Charlemagne Tha God’s new show Hell of a Week, stated that he’s not against robbing, but shouldn’t have killed the Philadelphia rapper.
“The young brother was supporting Black-owned businesses going to the Roscoe’s Chicken with his wife and his kid. And so we get all these deflections of, ‘Oh, but his wife posted the chicken. Oh, he’s not supposed to wear jewelry.’ How ’bout we not supposed to kill each other,” he said.
He continued, “I used to stick people up. I used to rob people. I’m being honest. I’m not trying to front for y’all. I’m not against them robbing him. Caught ’em, rob em. Why you gotta kill him? And that’s what bothers me. And not only destroy that family, but what about the other families that are sitting in Roscoe’s and they see somebody get their brains blown out in front of them? You destroyed a whole village with one shot. So, my thing is, when you go to L.A., they got a rule called ‘check in’ or something, right? Why don’t the check-ins check in ahead of time? You know when you go in your hotel, the key’s already ready? Why don’t the O.G.s tell ’em, ‘Hey, rob ’em, don’t kill ’em.’ And why do we hate us? Why are we not happy about people that come from where we come from being successful?! Why do we want to kill them?!”
Hip hop artists are “an endangered species,” he says in the second clip, which is included below. Some of them are not only threatened by violence in the neighbourhood but also by the government. “We getting hit up by the police, hit up by the feds. And we getting hit up by our own for being in our hood trying to show love,” he continued. “It’s so dangerous to be a rapper these days, it’s hardest job out there right now. Because they coming out you either way, they trying to put you in jail or these your own people trying to kill you.”
Check out the interview below.
Fat joe speaks on passing of Pnb Rock and people blaming him for wearing jewelry and girlfriend posting location pic.twitter.com/QtVrtB9urf
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