Joey Badass Takes Stand Towards Hip Hop’s Deadly Tradition At BET Awards, Calls for Change From Rappers 

Joey Bada$$ is urging rappers to place an finish to messages that will end in deadly actions, inflicting their very own dying or the demise of others.

The New York rapper made the highly effective assertion throughout his efficiency on the 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards. Whereas taking the stage for his monitor “Head Excessive” off his 2000 album, Bada$$ assembled a line of 12 backup dancers who every repped a hoodie embroidered with a rapper’s title. They had been organized in chronological order primarily based on the rappers’ deaths, which ranged from 1987 to final month.

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Honoured through the efficiency had been Scott La Rock, Tupac Shakur, the Infamous B.I.G., Huge L, Soulja Slim, XXXTENTACION, Nipsey Hussle, Pop Smoke, King Von, Younger Dolph, Hassle, and PnB Rock, who handed away in September. Every artist was a sufferer of gun violence.

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Bada$$ argued that rappers are scary their very own expiration date and preached that the tradition should take duty for the message it’s sending to children.