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**Gezus** · 02-28-2010, 06:46 AM

^ well i have talked to a lot of people that listen to hip-hop & rap & almost none of them have even heard of I.T. until i mentioned him...

**Diegoscp** · 02-28-2010, 07:00 AM

^ most people around where I live know who he is, but of course this are the people that listen to Hip-Hop.

**Gezus** · 02-28-2010, 07:13 AM

^ yea it probably depends on the area. now i do get surprises where i mention him & the person responds with that the heard of him or have some songs...

**shakur420** · (This post was last modified: 02-28-2010 07:24 AM by shakur420.)

^me too. And if they know anything other than "Dance With the Devil" I'm really surprised. And I'm talkin about people who only listen to rap...mixtapes off the street and shit from people I've never heard of. Not to many people I know get there rap from the radio.

**Boboulas** · 02-28-2010, 03:59 PM

Quote:lol, maybe after the Middle Passage, that twitter comment about how the song will finish him..been thinkin about what it could be about. Personally, I think another 4-5 years, a couple more albums, orphanages and interviews, and they'll start cracking down on him - hard. He'll get big in a few years, I think.

The USA is the free'est society politicaly speaking and they will never touch him. Why people think he is going to die or be forced to shut up is beyond me.

**El Mono** · 02-28-2010, 04:05 PM

^ I wouldn't say it was the free'est politically speaking. They may say what they want to a point, but most is swept under the rug completely. If it's ignored, it doesn't seem free to me. Like the UK, Ignoring the 2003 Anti-war March and for the US and the UK both cracking down on the G20 Protests, not letting their people speak?

**Boboulas** · 02-28-2010, 04:53 PM

okay mabey not freeest but deffinetly the most open (not so much on social issues), i would challenge you to find many more freeer countries in the world. And besides most if not all suposedly democratic governments attack protesters, the only reason you hear about it in UK and USA is because they promote the whole freedom and democracy thing.

**El Mono** · 02-28-2010, 05:07 PM

^ True, you have a point. And I probably couldn't name a one with a more open tone, Unless I said
Sweden? Norway? The Netherlands?

And France practically go on strike every week

Lmao but just more evidence to show they're ignored.

Yeah I guess you have it right..

**Boboulas** · 02-28-2010, 05:32 PM

Dont get it twisted though, you bought up a good point. Britian and the USA tried rigerously to destroy the labour movement at one point or another (note that its not the bullshit labour we see in britian today), and strikes used to end with 10 or so dead workers.

And the freedoms we have in the UK and for those in USA do not reflect at all the way they act internationaly.

I mean when britian was at the height of its power and when IT was the freeest country on earth it was acting like nazis against the indians expect the british got away with genocide and there was no memorial or even a mention in the pages of history. How many people on the street can say they have heard of what happened to the indians apart from the fact that they made you some great food?

Its really sickening.

**francisco** · 03-20-2010, 08:54 PM

(02-28-2010 01:14 AM)IslamicRevolutionary Wrote: it was first after his death that his music gained big interrest and many fans.

his music was just as popular when he was alive. just look at the numbers.

**Diegoscp** · 03-23-2010, 01:50 AM

(03-20-2010 08:54 PM)francisco Wrote:
(02-28-2010 01:14 AM)IslamicRevolutionary Wrote: it was first after his death that his music gained big interrest and many fans.

his music was just as popular when he was alive. just look at the numbers.

his sales increased....

**francisco** · 03-23-2010, 08:18 PM

^source.?

even if they did, saying "his music gained big interrest and many fans" is misleading at best and stupid at worst.