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Hip Hop is having a tough week. A few days before this whole Nipsey incident beloved battle rapper Tech 9 passed away and we were told he died in his sleep. Tech wasn't a mainstream star but he was well known through out the "battle rap community", which still amounts to millions of people. He was an active battle rapper and co-host on the popular Youtube show "Champion". I've personally watched him over about a 10 year span. Everyone loves Tech so it was pretty sad for him to suddenly die like that. People donated upwards of $30k to his family's go fund me account and made tribute videos for about 2 days. dThen a few days later Nipsey gets shot and obviously you see the widespread affect that has had on people combined with all the conspiracies, the vigil debacle.
Well just when we thought we had a moment to catch our breath from this terrible week this news breaks yesterday morning:
Rapper Tech 9 Was Facing Multiple Sexual Assault Charges Involving a Minor Prior to Death
https://www.complex.com/music/2019/...ssault-charges-involving-minor-prior-to-death
Turns out Tech 9 was facing charges for some pretty horrific sex/pedo crimes. Some real weirdo, R Kelly stuff. He was set for pre-trail the following day and ultimately killed himself out of shame and embarrassment. Now all of these millions of people who love Tech and just got through a week of mourning and praising Tech 9, along with Nipsey, now get hit with this. People are mad and hurt. Someone they loved and thought was one person turned out to be a monster. Many people feel like they got scammed out of their money by the family and others who knew what really happened. They let people think he just randomly died and took in $30k. It's just a big mess.
I know Tech isn't the biggest name but when combined with the tragic death of Nipsey, the destruction of R. Kelly, the recent character assassination of Michael Jackson...its been quite a psychologically traumatic year for the idol worshiping portion of black America(which unfortunately is quite large).
JayBlac Speaks:
Well just when we thought we had a moment to catch our breath from this terrible week this news breaks yesterday morning:
Rapper Tech 9 Was Facing Multiple Sexual Assault Charges Involving a Minor Prior to Death
https://www.complex.com/music/2019/...ssault-charges-involving-minor-prior-to-death
Turns out Tech 9 was facing charges for some pretty horrific sex/pedo crimes. Some real weirdo, R Kelly stuff. He was set for pre-trail the following day and ultimately killed himself out of shame and embarrassment. Now all of these millions of people who love Tech and just got through a week of mourning and praising Tech 9, along with Nipsey, now get hit with this. People are mad and hurt. Someone they loved and thought was one person turned out to be a monster. Many people feel like they got scammed out of their money by the family and others who knew what really happened. They let people think he just randomly died and took in $30k. It's just a big mess.
I know Tech isn't the biggest name but when combined with the tragic death of Nipsey, the destruction of R. Kelly, the recent character assassination of Michael Jackson...its been quite a psychologically traumatic year for the idol worshiping portion of black America(which unfortunately is quite large).
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