AR-AB: The Worst Criminal in Hip Hop History
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Since its inception, the lines between what’s real and what’s discussed on record in hip-hop has always been permeable. Often, rappers will conjure up tales from a treacherous past in order to illustrate not just how far they’ve come, but every potential hazard that they had to circumvent on the road to success. And depending on if you’re an elder statesman like Jay Z or a younger artist such as 21 Savage, the amount of space between you and your past conduct on the street can vary wildly.
But no matter the case, the general perception is that anything you talk about within the confines of your rhymes is in a reflective sense. As if you were still actively partaking in illegal activity, it’d be pretty inadvisable to draw attention to whatever enterprise you’re in and alert the cops. Particularly when your life as an MC has meant that there are now more eyeballs on you than ever before.
Well, while this may seem like a simple case of common sense to most, there is a subset of the hip-hop world for whom keeping it real has gone wrong. Very wrong.
Believing that authenticity is everything and knowing that it can translate to a whole host of sales, some rappers have interwoven the reality of their worlds with their artistry. And in doing so, did all but tell the long arm of the law where the bodies were buried or their contraband is stored.
A phenomenon first detailed by MF DOOM & Mr Fantastik as they discussed “Rap snitches, telling all they business, sit in the court they be they own star witness,” their warning about the potential pitfalls of speaking too freely and getting “the whole label sent up for years” proved to be less of an effective PSA than they’d probably hoped for.
As in recent years, far too many rappers have allowed there to be a correlation between the dirt they were doing and what they were discussing on their tracks. In essence, making them hip-hop’s dumbest criminals.
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Written by: Robert Blair
Edited by: Roman Bill
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Ar ab like that villain that captures the hero then turn around to talk about his plans and when he turn back around the hero escaped
He said “I SEEN HIM DO IT” with so much conviction, lmaoooo
He is literally confessing to crimes seconds into the video 💀💀
“I seen him do it” 🤦🏾♂️
The “self snitching compilation” clips of AB never get old. I cry laughing everytime 🤣🤣🤣. That man was bold lmao
Can you believe we live in a world where people will go to a interviewer tell them everything and then blame the interviewer for being the feds?
"Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin." Proverbs 13:3
AR-AB ain't even a minute in the vid and he's already solidifying his 45 yr life sentence
"rap snitches, telling all their business, sit in the court and be their own star witness, do you see the perpetrator, yeah he right there, fuck around and get the whole label sent up for years" - MF DOOM & Mr. Fantastik
Police don't need a Detective department the way rappers snitch on themselves 😂😂😂
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"AND I SEEN HIM DO IT!" and homie was just sitting there chilling/nodding, he should have jumped up and snatched that camera real quick
In the words of Gangstalicious: Play it for the jury, the defendant and the plaintiff, court reporter and the bailiff. 🤣
He wanted people to know he was real so bad. He wasn’t stupid, he just didn’t care because the clout from it meant more to him
The crazy thing is that his upbringing was positive. He started doing street shit because he was bored and wanted to be outside with his friends
"I seen him do it! I know he did it for a fact!"
😂😂😂😂😂 I can not till this day believe this dude was really describing actual crimes and pointing out his own guys and they sitting there co-signing it.
AB is that friend you do not want to know any of your secrets.
" I seen eem do it, I know he did it for a fact" might've been the wildest thing I've heard in an interview
Crazy that the conclusion you draw is for rappers to not self snitch. The conclusion should be, don’t be a criminal. Don’t be a stain on your community and culture. Do good things. Be a positive force. Then you won’t have to worry about what you say.