In 2004, Baltimore, Maryland witnessed the first of the Stop Snitching Campaigns. An ingenious idea created by local drug dealers to intimidate potential snitches through underground DVD's.
Since then, fledgling rappers used this same campaign to try to add street cred to their fake credentials and ultimately to sell records.
For those of you that are already lost, a snitch is a tattle tale and no one likes a tattle tale, right?
Yes, right! No one likes a tattle tale. But, there are times when snitching is truly acceptable:
1. If you see someone obviously under the influence while driving, call the cops on their dumb asses. Drinking and driving this late in the game is like finding a NEW crack head. You have to ask yourself, how does that happen?
2. If someone is attempting to break into your house and you kill them outside of your house. Drag them in and call the cops. Everyone is broke and the economy is an old excuse for someone to make that a viable reason to take YOUR shit.
3. If you find someone that’s a recent METH or CRACK head, call the cops. There’s not a reason good enough for anyone to take a drug whose only claim to fame is bad breath, lost teeth and the ability to turn the user into an instant thief. Clearly someone else needs to make the decisions in their lives.
4. If you realize your neighbor is a convicted pedophile, beat his ass (daily), plant METH and CRACK on him and call the cops. Olivia Benson (Law & Order SVU) taught me that pedophiles can’t be rehabilitated. It’s best to keep them locked away until their nuts shrivel up like sundried prunes.
In most cases, snitches are identified as weak individuals only out for the money. I can’t say that I wouldn’t turn someone in for the loot (times are hard). Anything you can do to get a menace off the street is truly the right thing to do.
I’m a fan of both drugs and violence but everything in moderation. When a person(s) jeopardizes the balance of a neighborhood or city, it’s time for them to move on. Nino Brown and Tony Montana were fictional characters. The real urban heroes pay taxes, pay bills, bitch about being too broke and budget our weed.