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Photos: In hip-hop, violence is taking on a diminishing role
Violence is taking on a diminishing role. (Edel Rodriguez / For The Times)
Drake (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A song that never popularly hit the airwaves gained traction when one specific verse spread to the masses. On the track titled “U.O.E.N.O,” Rick Ross delivers a line describing date rape as entertainment. Because of that verse, Reebok dropped the rapper-mogul as a spokesman. He later apologized on a New Orleans radio station, saying, “As far as my camp, hip-hop don’t condone that, the streets don’t condone that, nobody condones that.” (Isaac Brekken / Getty Images )
Tupac Shakur (Ron Galella / WireImage)
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