Rap-Show Brawls Rapped

This is an open letter to all the rap fans who feel that a good brawl is the perfect topper to a rap concert. I’m not speaking as a rap fan, but as a veteran of more than a hundred rock concerts, dating back almost 20 years. I have attended everything from concerts by Los Lobos to Bob Marley to X, and not once have I had a chair hurled at me.

Granted, at a few of those X concerts, there were objects airborne. But those were bodies, and they were only involved in that unique pagan ritual known as slam dancing. No one was seriously injured, and not once were the riot police called in.

If rap fans wish to have venues such as the Forum and the Sports Arena continue to allow rap shows to be held there, some serious attitude changes will have to be made by those few “rotten apples” who insist on spoiling the fun for everyone else.

JOHN McELLIGOTT JR.

Fullerton

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