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Michael Brown’s Raps: Money, Sex, Drugs — And A Vulnerable Side
LATimes ^ | August 17, 2014 | MATT HANSEN AND KURTIS LEE

Posted on 08/17/2014 10:18:04 PM PDT by Steelfish

Michael Brown’s Raps: Money, Sex, Drugs — And A Vulnerable Side By MATT HANSEN AND KURTIS LEE AUG. 17, 2014 In the neighborhood around the worn Canfield Green Apartments, 18-year-old Michael Brown was known as a young man with some potential. His peers around him struggled to hold jobs and had multiple run-ins with the law, but Brown had graduated from high school and was headed for community college.

And he had another ambition: his music.

Calling himself Big’Mike, he was a prolific amateur rapper, recording solo and duet tracks and posting them online. He even included a phone number where he could be reached, asking for “features and advice.”

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There is no mention of his Dad, only his mother and grandmother
1 posted on 08/17/2014 10:18:04 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Calling himself Big’Mike, he was a prolific amateur rappe

Catchall media phrase to garner sympathy for thugs....aspiring rapper.

2 posted on 08/17/2014 10:20:18 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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Aspiring rapper, turning his life around, a good boy according to his mother and grandmother, etc...

He was a thug, plain and simple.

Bum rushing an armed individual WILL result in lead poisoning.

I wonder what the toxicology report from the autopsy might include?


3 posted on 08/17/2014 10:23:22 PM PDT by Tigerized (Keep Calm, Carry On, but Never Give Up.)
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he probly hangin with the aspiring rapper and his mgr from the Bronx that ate a couple of slugs last night


4 posted on 08/17/2014 10:27:23 PM PDT by albertabound
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To: Steelfish
Michael Brown was known as a young man with some potential. His peers around him struggled to hold jobs and had multiple run-ins with the law,

I'm curious about his juvenile records. I have to wonder if this is just another media sham that he was a "young man with some potential." maybe he was really just a habitual criminal all along.

5 posted on 08/17/2014 10:28:05 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: albertabound

being an aspiring rapper has a longevity reminiscent of a JFK assassination witness or an Obama gay lover.


6 posted on 08/17/2014 10:31:21 PM PDT by albertabound
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To: Steelfish

much of rap music romanticizes violent thuggish behavior. It seems at some point he wanted to start living that kind life not just make recordings about it.


7 posted on 08/17/2014 10:32:14 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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Rush was calling him something, I know Rush in his style also used the term “Gentle Giant”, not sure if Rush said “Big Mike”.


8 posted on 08/17/2014 10:42:01 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Tigerized

> I wonder what the toxicology report from the autopsy might include?

You can forget about the truth now that Holder and the race baiters have stirred the masses for November elections. Expect another white cop vs thug shooting in the last week of October...


9 posted on 08/17/2014 10:42:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Agree. St. Trayvon and now St. Big Mike well timed to motivate black voters.

All-time unemployment highs for them.

Hispanics displacing them both in low-skill jobs and as the nations largest minority.

Time for some distractions.

Arms up in the air? Nope. Front entry wounds.

Shot in the back? Nope.

Gentle Giant? Nope.

Wilson will have it worse than Zimmerman.


10 posted on 08/17/2014 10:46:58 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Steelfish

Aspiring rapper = criminal with no plans to get a real job.


11 posted on 08/17/2014 10:57:25 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: TigerClaws

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- Legal Hispanics do tend to at least perform some kind of work or service - They must tire of being taxed by Beery Hussein Ebola (Junior) to pay for the crackhead “Little Mikeys” that work the system and put these sub-humans on SSDI to pay for Gramma’s huge new HDTV and “medications” and steaks and lobsters and booze and...


12 posted on 08/17/2014 11:15:38 PM PDT by devolve (- - Balack Hussein Ebola (Junior) the flaming Turd -- So how's that cigar Mikey? - -)
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To: All

Another “Expiring Rapper”


13 posted on 08/17/2014 11:23:31 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Has any President in history sunk to such a level of self-flattery & validation-seeking?)
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That explains it. He was acting out the gangsta’ rap life. He is famous now.


14 posted on 08/18/2014 12:09:38 AM PDT by pallis
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His peers struggled to hold jobs, but apparently he didn’t because he never had one - no mention anywhere that he ever worked.


15 posted on 08/18/2014 12:12:06 AM PDT by aquila48
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one of his raps

“With this Glock in your face

And you betta not make a sound
And I only like white men on my money
Those who are last shall be first,
Whites on the bottom”

Kinda reminds me of trayvon’s crazy ass cracka comments


16 posted on 08/18/2014 12:13:41 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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His peers struggled to hold jobs, but apparently he didn’t because he never had one - no mention anywhere that he ever worked.

good catch. the media lying again.

And now something came out about college bound Mike Brown being "a year behind in his studies."

It just keeps getting more absurd almost by the hour.

17 posted on 08/18/2014 12:20:00 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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Calling himself Big’Mike...

Has anybody pointed out yet that "Big Mike" was the character nickname for Michael Oher in the movie "The Blind Side?"

Big Mike says that the one thing he doesn't like is being called "Big Mike."

Did this kid fancy himself to be another Michael Oher, but without the ambition and discipline?

-PJ

18 posted on 08/18/2014 12:20:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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>" known as a young man with some potential."

Well he certainly lived up to becoming a strong armed robber.

19 posted on 08/18/2014 1:25:16 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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“Smoking dope and f’ing hoes
Smoking dope and f’ing hoes!”

Quite the “gentle giant”. Can you imagine the outrage if a cop or Republican politician referred to women as “hoes” even once? I think the reaction to the Rush Limbaugh “slut” comment gives us a good idea of what it would be.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 3:16:00 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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