The Link Between Rapper Deaths and Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
Something’s in the water. What could possibly explain the colossal and growing number of artist deaths within the American hip-hop community? How is it that these poignant occurrences filter through popular culture with negligible and short-lived scrutiny?
What seems to pass for analysis is a weak culmination of banal and predictable commentary — cold dissemination of circumstantial data surrounding the deaths of these rising and falling stars.
In other words, save for simple event reporting, which is chiefly the acknowledgment of facts, there is no deep dive into why rappers, in particular, seem to be dying at an ever-increasing rate.
People, try as they may to ascribe an all-encompassing line of reasoning, are still no closer to “inner-standing” the conditions behind the deaths of society’s most beloved hip-hop artists. ‘They’re all just drug users and murderers’, seems to be the common doctrine submitted to explain this phenomenon. Besides being disastrously ignorant and stunningly misguided, this explanation just doesn't cut it.
While it is no secret that humans kill one another and become addicted to harmful drugs, people are either unable or unwilling to comprehend that the motivations for these detrimental actions are both multi-varied and…
