RadioOnFire.com - Rakim spoke out on the killing of blacks by police, and said the laws we use are outdated and need to be changed in order to correct some of these issues. “The laws are gonna have [to] change. And it’s 2016. We can’t keep using all the laws that was made back in the 1700s. We’re gonna have to understand that times have changed,” he said to HipHopDX.
The legendary emcee also explained how negative stereotypes of black men plays a huge role in them being profiled by police all over the U.S. “I feel that, it’s a corny word, but the first thing is we’re being stereotyped. If you look a certain way, you’re gonna get handled a certain way. It stems back to stereotyping and racism. So we gotta understand what’s going on, and avoid it as much as we can. You know, I got kids. I got sons, and I try to tell them, ‘Look, man, when you in the car and you get pulled over, hands on the steering wheel. Yes, sir. No sir. Your job is to either wind up in jail, so I can come get you, or be able to pull off. That’s your job. I’d rather come get you from the precinct for whatever happened, instead of mouthing off or giving them any reason to use that physical abuse,” continued Rakim.
And while he admires that people use social media to express their feelings on these kinds of issues, he prefers to vent through music. “We all understand and see what’s going on,” he said. “Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.”
Source: hiphopdx.com
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