Music, Apathy and Barbie
TAGGED: Music fur Hip hop rap DMX Ruff Ryders dog fighting animal abuse animal cruelty
OK, y'all it's time for a little game I like to call "Get the Picture."
This is DMX:
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He's the Ruff Ryder who's been under investigation since police raided his house and reportedly found 12 starving and severely neglected pit bulls, along with the bodies of 3 others who allegedly had injuries consistent with dogfighting. He portrays himself as a tough guy and raps lyrics like these:
"Place your bets
You can imagine what the bloodline is like
Since I love mine to fight...
All my pups is crazy, cause off the leash
They can eat, stand a match for 3 hours at least"
Typically, dogfighters "toughen up" pit bulls by beating them, taunting them, and leaving them outside in extreme heat and cold, alone at the end of a heavy chain. This abuse begins when they are just puppies, like this little guy:
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Now, rather than avoid the appearance of being ruthlessly cruel to little animals, the rest of the Ruff Ryder crew has made the brilliant move to release a line of fugly-ass fur coats. This means they're charging suckers a couple grand to sport the skins of animals like these:
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Seriously, as if fake beef for marketing purposes wasn't wimpy enough, now rappers gotta get mixed up with fur farmers to confine tiny critters in crusty cages and then skin them alive so that they can pimp coats that make people look like a Sasquatch with shaved legs. Get the picture?
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AVAILABLE IN MINK, FOX, CHINCHILLA AND EVEN DOG!! DON'T WORRY
YOU WON'T EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE! YOU PROBABLY WON'T
EVEN CARE! CHANCES ARE, YOU ARE PROBABLY ALREADY WEARING
ROVER RIGHT NOW!
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