{"id":210,"date":"2012-03-08T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=210"},"modified":"2014-01-13T19:07:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:07:39","slug":"a-list-you-dont-want-to-be-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2012\/03\/08\/a-list-you-dont-want-to-be-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A list you don&#8217;t want to be on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/03\/2Pac-and-Biggie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-213\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/03\/2Pac-and-Biggie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/03\/2Pac-and-Biggie.jpg 216w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2012\/03\/2Pac-and-Biggie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>The <em>Washington Times <\/em>today includes a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/culture\/the-list\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">list of 20 rappers<\/span><\/a><\/span> who were killed at a young age. \u00a0There&#8217;s no real argument or stated purpose to this piece, but it does serve as a reminder of the violence that has sometimes followed rap music. \u00a0(Though, it&#8217;s worth noting that hip hop actually evolved, in part, through a desire to end street violence, and it still serves that function in many ways.)<\/p>\n<p>Globally speaking, however, rap is not the only music genre that has seen its rising stars killed off; in fact, the Mexican narcocorrido (a folk genre that often mythologizes drug kingpins and their violent lifestyles) has witnessed a truly <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/25\/AR2007122501437_pf.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">shocking number of murders<\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0\u00a0More than a dozen performers were murdered in just over a year (between 2006 and 2008), and just a few months ago, Diego Rivas was added to the list of slain Mexican musicians. With this disturbing context in mind, rap doesn&#8217;t seem so hazardous after all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times today includes a list of 20 rappers who were killed at a young age. \u00a0There&#8217;s no real argument or stated purpose to this piece, but it does serve as a reminder of the violence that has sometimes followed rap music. \u00a0(Though, it&#8217;s worth noting that hip hop actually evolved, in part, through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2012\/03\/08\/a-list-you-dont-want-to-be-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A list you don&#8217;t want to be on<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}