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Baby CEO, 14 y/o aspiring rapper
Posted on 7/23/15 at 7:39 pm
Posted on 7/23/15 at 7:39 pm
Paints a good portrait of what it means to be cool for many inner-city yoots.
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A disturbing video is making rounds on social media.
A young Memphis boy points guns and raps vulgar lyrics.
It has some in the community concerned.
14-year-old Johnathon, known as “Baby CEO,” raps about guns, drugs and gang signs and posts his videos on social media, hoping to find fame.
J.R. Futrell with Young Men University works with young men to keep them from a life of crime. He said he was not surprised by the video.
"It's a product of reap and sow, and we've sown things into our children's lives,” Futrell said. “They live in a world that they did not choose and here we are with the results."
He said the video is disturbing and he recognizes some of the kids from Frayser.
"If that represents the poison, within that same poison is the cure,” Futrell said. “So we're going to have to be patient and see where he is."
Altonious Meyers from Young Men University said his 14-year-old self may have done the same thing.
"I'm thinking it's cool when I'm growing up, because it's all I've seen," Meyers said.
It may be the only way Johnathon knows. His sister is in jail on aggravated burglary, robbery and kidnapping charges for an incident that happened in 2012.
Futrell said kids like Johnathon need mentors who will continue to show them a different path.
"I don't believe if you build it they will come, he said. “I believe if you stay when they come, you're there to provide the service that will help aid in the positive change."
This post was edited on 7/23/15 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 7/23/15 at 7:44 pm to FenrirTheBeard
The future of inner city kids!!!
Posted on 7/23/15 at 7:45 pm to FenrirTheBeard
Lil Wayne started at 13
Posted on 7/23/15 at 7:47 pm to FenrirTheBeard
Lil Boosie "the youngest out da camp" was doing this at 14 many years ago.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 8:22 pm to FenrirTheBeard
Hopefully a rival gang takes them out
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:49 pm to FenrirTheBeard
Remind me again why we want to block access to abortions?
This post was edited on 7/29/15 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 7/30/15 at 12:06 am to FenrirTheBeard
Someone needs to abolish violent hip hop/rap - it's retarded and just creates more racism in America. Martin Luther King would be sick to see this shite. Young black males think it's cool and it spreads like the plague. Go read a fricking book and contribute to society like the rest of us. Nothing good comes out of this garbage. Look at me, I can wave guns around and find 47 different ways to rhyme about how I'm the realist, I can kill you, and I have a lot of homies that share the same primitive, psychopathic mindset.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 12:37 am to FenrirTheBeard
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Futrell said kids like Johnathon need mentors who will continue to show them a different path
Fathers, not mentors.....
Posted on 7/30/15 at 5:33 am to FenrirTheBeard
Well this isn't a new trend at all
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:13 am to FenrirTheBeard
I understood 29% of what that child said.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 7:17 am to FenrirTheBeard
Society, in general, is to blame. We have been far too tolerant towards bad behavior. We are our own policeman, and we have been doing a lousy job. Here's the remedy: We need to be more judgemental. With me?
Posted on 7/30/15 at 8:28 am to FenrirTheBeard
Gotta love what rap "music" did for the youth of today. The glorification of being a TPOS.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 10:22 am to FenrirTheBeard
THIS is a baby CEO.
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That Dindu Nuffin couldn't be the CEO of a lemonade stand.
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That Dindu Nuffin couldn't be the CEO of a lemonade stand.
This post was edited on 7/30/15 at 10:23 am
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