Remember when we used to remember and honor heroes!? This week, New York City and the MTA will celebrate the 50th birthday of Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace. Wallace will not be here for his birthday as he was killed in a drive by shooting in 1997! Wallace was born in poverty, was in the drug game, made records about women, dope dealing, and the ghetto culture. Instead of making a difference, he kept up with the gangbanging shit and was shot and killed!
I could think of hundreds of people more deserving of a celebration. Including the 343 souls lost on Black Tuesday! Wallace was a drug dealer turned rapper who lived like a dug dealer. Rock stars die of overdoses, not gunfire. Wallace is no hero, he is not a pioneer, or a trailblazer. If he was alive today, he would get little fanfare.
We used to look up to people like Columbus, Magellan, Edison, Tesla, Ford, George Washington, Alvin York, Audie Murphy, John Kennedy, and George Patton. We don’t anymore. These people were smart, brave, and honorable. We don’t look up to that anymore. Maybe if they rapped about bitches, or shooting black people, they would be looked up to by society today. But a guy like Wallace or a freak like Bruce Jenner is a hero while Edison and Patton could fuck off!
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