{"id":1796750,"date":"2023-01-05T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1796750"},"modified":"2023-01-05T19:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:54:35","slug":"after-recent-shootings-waka-flocka-flame-says-rappers-need-to-leave-streets-behind-when-they-make-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-recent-shootings-waka-flocka-flame-says-rappers-need-to-leave-streets-behind-when-they-make-it-big\/","title":{"rendered":"After Recent Shootings, Waka Flocka Flame Says Rappers Need To Leave Streets Behind When They Make It Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-recent-shootings-waka-flocka-flame-says-rappers-need-to-leave-streets-behind-when-they-make-it-big%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1796750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rapper Waka Flocka Flame said that the recent rash of shootings should stop rappers from going back to their old neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with TV host and former NFL start Shannon Sharpe on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGBMCDe1xv0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cClub Shay Shay\u201d podcast<\/a> this week, the rapper, real name Juaquin James Malphurs, reacted to a rash of shootings among rap artists in recent weeks. Waka said that once a rapper achieves a certain level of success, he or she needs to leave their old streets behind, because that is how other rappers got into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirty years after Tupac and Biggie, and we\u2019re still having \u2014 we saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/migos-rapper-28-shot-dead-in-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Takeoff<\/a> just recently get killed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rapper-pnb-rock-shot-and-killed-in-l-a-days-after-talking-about-criminals-targeting-rappers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PnB Rock<\/a>, we see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/trouble-rapper-killed-suspect-in-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trouble<\/a> \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/02\/19\/pop-smoke-dead-dies-20-murdered-home-invasion-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>,\u201d Sharpe began the exchange. \u201cCome on, Waka, give me something. Why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you why, and I never want to speak on nobody\u2019s death, but I could tell you this: when God [blesses] you, you have to change your ways, you have to evolve. You have to,\u201d replied the rapper, who himself was shot in a 2010 robbery. \u201cI could just say wrong place, wrong time for these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, in other words, once you ascend to a certain level, you gotta leave that alone,\u201d Sharpe interjected. He then referred to the fact that Takeoff was reportedly rolling dice with his uncle and fellow Migos member Quavo when he was shot and killed at a bowling alley in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah, I don\u2019t roll dice,\u201d Waka responded. \u201cWith all respect, why would I roll dice with somebody that ain\u2019t in my tax bracket? It\u2019s liability that some s*** could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t gamble,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou know what I gamble with? My business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharpe went on to admit that he often went back to his old neighborhood and gambled with his friends, in an effort to prove to his old friends back home that he was still one of them, that he \u201cwasn\u2019t better than them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper replied that he was never like that. \u201cI watch people die everyday like that \u2014 that\u2019s why I ain\u2019t never been [that guy] \u2026 I ain\u2019t got nothing to prove to y\u2019all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waka Flocka Flame went on to discuss the difference between full-time rappers and up-and-comers who still make money by selling drugs, and how that influences young artists. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of rappers out today,\u201d Waka said. \u201cIf you\u2019re a rapper, that means hip-hop pays your bills. It\u2019s a lot of [aspiring] rappers. There\u2019s people out here that spend money just to look like a rapper, to try and be a rapper, and they are the people getting into more trouble than the people that\u2019s actually getting paid off hip-hop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where the mental confusion happens between rappers and [aspiring] rappers,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey feel like they gotta hang around the guys that\u2019s inspiring, and that\u2019s when they go back to their old ways, and get tied into some old s***. I\u2019m not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the man who allegedly shot Takeoff was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/05\/migos-rapper-takeoffs-suspected-killer-released-from-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released from jail<\/a> after posting the $1 million bail set against him by a judge in Harris County, Texas. The suspect will remain under house arrest and wear a GPS ankle monitor.<\/p>\n<p>At least three up-and coming rappers were killed in shootings in 2022, including Louisiana rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/louisiana-rapper-shot-in-his-hometown-dies-of-injuries-at-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JayDaYoungan<\/a>, Florida rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-rapper-gunned-down-minutes-after-daring-critics-to-confront-him-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rollie Bands<\/a>, and Chicago rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/31-year-old-rapper-fbg-cash-killed-in-chicago-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBG Cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Waka Flocka Flame said that the recent rash of shootings should stop rappers from going back to their old neighborhoods. In an interview with TV host and former NFL start Shannon Sharpe on his \u201cClub Shay Shay\u201d podcast this week, the rapper, real name Juaquin James Malphurs, reacted to a rash of shootings among &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1796753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,13569,13571,4591,12814,6744,10293,13570,6195],"class_list":["post-1796750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-flame","tag-flocka","tag-leave","tag-rappers","tag-shootings","tag-streets","tag-waka","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}