Posted on 11/16/2017 9:13:57 AM PST by JimRed
Lol!
Yet the next generation of young Italian guys (following the 70-80s disco/Classic Rock period you’re referring to) were listening to that gangsta rap crap. It was the beginning of the end around that time. Can’t find nearly a single Italian around there these days.
The people I know that are depressed and suicidal don’t take very flattering pictures either.
He was obviously having a great time posing for those pics. Would someone so deeply depressed make such an enormous effort to pick out all those different styles and looks? When a person's depressed they typically aren't interested in much of anything. They can hardly get off their backside. They have a near total lack of enthusiasm for anything.
All I know is what he said in interviews:
“Some days I’ll be very down and out, but you won’t be able to tell, really, because I don’t express that side of myself on social media,” he added. “That’s the side of myself that I express through music.
Just speculating here, but maybe he succumbed to people's humiliating criticizing of him. I'm sure that a lot of black rappers and black rapper fans had been hard on him, either in person or via social media.
On the outside he merely pretended that it didn't get to him. Because this is a fairly common story in a lot of young suicides, bullying and rejection.
I guess it’s just my perception that anyone with all those gang=looking tats is bound for a criminal life. Perhaps I’m being unfair to some “body-art” aficcianados.
Not only black rappers. He was always driven to try something new but of course we all know how that turns out sometimes. The emo, hip hop or grunge people didn’t want to claim him either.
I'm sure it paled in comparison to what they did to Vanilla Ice back in the day, (Jim Carey on In Living Color, anyone)
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