You had to know it was gonna happen, with the spotlight on NFL star Michael Vick and his dogfighting indictment, pretty soon the finger pointing would eventually lead back to hip hop music. John Goodwin, a representative from the Human Society appeared on Fox News this week, and inevitably named rap music as an influence in the culture of dog fighing.
"The growth in dog fighting has been largely fueled by some elements in the popular culture, specifically some rap videos,” Goodwin told Fox's Bill O’Reilly. “For example, there is a rapper named DMX. He has a CD named Grand Champ. There is a big pit-bull on the cover and the booklet that comes with the CD describes a champion as a three time winner of dogfights. There is Jay-Z, who had a music video called “99 Problems.” The unedited version had scenes of him handling a dog in a dog fighting pit.”
Jay-Z's 99 Problems
DMX's - Where The Hood At
DMX - Where The Hood At - Ayo Kato
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It's easy to get into the music/video causing sociopathic behavior vs.music/video reflecting existing behavior debate. I'm not one to blame the problems of the world on the influence of the arts but, still, I could never get behind any artist who participates in or is an advocate for such a needlessly cruel and barbaric "sport".
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ghostofunder speaks for me.
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How about the 13 counts of animal cruelty he was convicted of in New Jersey in 2002?