MICK JENKINS
  • MICK JENKINS

Shout-out to all the folks who are still caught up in the unmitigated devilry that is Facebook—though it steals your privacy (don't download the messenger on your phone, people) and pimps your info (ooh, you like Reeboks?), it's still somehow a good way to spread information and have conversations—sometimes? Ask Facebook user and Seattle police officer Sergeant Christopher Hall, who recently flexed much support for Ferguson's infamous Officer Darren Wilson on his wall. No shock whatsoever, of course—cops back each other up, no matter what. (That's basically the same thing they say about us, by the way—"us" being the people they seem to shoot so much.)

You'll remember I was wondering where the hiphop response to the killing of Mike Brown was. Well, damn him for reading that, but ya boy Game got together a whole bunch of freedom fighters—Diddy, Rick Ross, 2Chainz, Fabolous, Wale, Yo Gotti, Swizz Beatz, Curren$y, and Problem—to make a #poignant song about Mike Brown's murder, and it's the definition of "be careful what you wish for." While "murdered son" does indeed rhyme with "Ferguson," there's a day-late-dollar-short-itude in the song's terrible Kidz Bop hook and the references to Diddy's Ciroc and Ross's status as a bawse, not to mention the blustery, fervent promises of first-person warfare.

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