Please Don't Dominate the Rap, Jack

Rappers are a curious breed. With the violence, misogyny and hate they spew, it's surprising that more rappers aren't involved in incidents such as the shooting of Marion "Suge" Knight.

The police, however, are having a hard time getting the witnesses to speak up:

A police report described the man who shot Knight in the leg Saturday at a party held in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards as black and wearing a pink shirt.

Miami Beach police spokesman Bobby Hernandez did not return a call Monday from The Associated Press, but he told The Miami Herald that the investigation was being hampered by witnesses' unwillingness to talk.

"We don't have any physical description. We don't know how many subjects were involved, which is mind boggling, with all those people around," Hernandez told the newspaper.

Yeah, it sure is "mind boggling." All those partying folks around and no one saw a damn thing.

"It's disturbing that someone can let off six shots in a packed club and can escape without being arrested," said Elliott Wilson, editor in chief of the rap magazine XXL. "The hip-hop community doesn't trust the police to confide info to them, and in turn the police have done little to make us feel like they give a damn about our safety. It's a vicious cycle."

The police are to blame, okay, I get it now. It seems as though you would've been alot safer by not attending a party with a roomful of rappers and their collective posse's, especially if the bullet magnet Suge was around.

At the awards ceremony Sunday night, one rap star downplayed the shooting.

"I don't think that what happened was any different than at any other event where you have a lot of people," said David Banner. "It's tragic that it happened and that the media magnified this so much."

You know, I haven't been to a party where someone was shot in at least three whole weeks. It's normal, you know? BTW, what kind of rapper is named David Banner? His street cred must be low, and the fact that the media played up a shooting is the tragic part, but the fact that a dude walked into a party with a gun, walked up to Suge Knight and popped a cap in him is not at all tragic.

Another thought, where was Suge's posse? You know the guy has to have some type of body guards and this idiot still got close enough to put a slug in his wheel.