Nicky Barnes. Frank Lucas. Sammy the Bull. Chris Brown?
There’s no link there, right?
If you would have asked the nice folks on Twitter this morning — or the editors of a certain largely read urban website — there is a connection.
Nicky Barnes, Frank Lucas and Sammy the Bull are all well-known informants — or snitches as you young folks like to say. This morning reports came out that Chris Brown was talking to the police about the big fight that went down between Breezy’s crew and Drake’s entourage at club W.I.P. in New York City early Thursday morning.
Not a lot of details about their talk has leaked, but we can assume they weren’t discussing the possible third single choices for Fortune. Chris Brown was giving up information about what really went down that morning.
So does that make your boy Chris Breezy a snitch?
Hmmm. OK, well first, what is a snitch?
I would define a snitch as a criminal in the streets being witness to a crime and giving away details to the authorities.
The idea is that if you’re doing dirt, you shouldn’t talk about other people’s dirt.
In simpler terms: if you’re out here shooting people in the face and you see someone get shot, you can’t talk to the police. You would be a snitch.
But if you’re a poor old grandmother and you see someone shoot a person in the face FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LADY CALL THE POLICE.
That’s my definition. However, my interpretation feels distorted considering I sit in front of a f*cking computer all day, and have no attachment to the streets.
I needed some help finding out how to define snitch.
After several text messages to my cousin Kilo went unanswered, I hit the net.
Wikipedia had a pretty unsatisfactory page dedicated to the word. When I Googled “What is Snitching” I got results from WashingtonPost, and some catholic forum where they asked “is snitching a sin.”
The best answer I found was from a thread called “What constitutes snitching?” in a forum from PrisonTalk. I’m assuming some of these folks have been snitched on, so they know what’s up. Some dude named Wobabi had this to say about the topic:
“Cuts-talking to staff period, people can/will think you are a snitch so yes,,,if you pounce on your celly (which is against the rules) and then rat him out for breaking your glasses-you are snitch toast.
An eye witness is a person who sees a crime being committed and goes to the authorities,,A snitch is a person who gets invovled in an illegal activity and then rats out his co-conspiritors or others invovled in illegal activites (him breaking your glasses is not right as well as you beatin his azz).
I would keep my mouth closed and do the time,,hope the celly fesses up first as to what happened and THEN tell your side because either way they will probably give both time in the hole so there may be no winners regardless.”
I didn’t understand most of that.
However, I was able to decipherer this little portion of the post (I fixed the spelling):
A snitch is a person who gets involved in an illegal activity and then rats out his co-conspirators or others involved in illegal activities.”
Which is actually pretty close to what I came up. Which brings us back to our friend Chris Brown. Last I checked, despite his various faults and outbursts Chris Brown is not “involved in illegal activities.” He’s a multimillionaire with a temper and some demons that he needs to shake.
Let’s cut off the fake macho nonsense. Unless you’re living like Wobabi or my cousin Kilo (text me, bro) cut all that fake tough sh*t. We should applaud Chris Brown instead of calling him silly names.
One of the ugliest hip-hop situations occurred back in 2006 when Busta Rhymes’ bodyguard Israel Ramirez was shot and killed on the “Touch It” video set. Busta Rhymes and at least 20 people saw what happened. No one came forward. Israel’s killer never got punished. Israel’s family — which included a wife and three children — never got justice.
Obviously, this Chris Brown and Drake situation isn’t as serious. There were no deaths Thursday morning. The only victims were a couple of cracked heads and a injured NBA point guard (stop flopping, Tony Parker!)
To all you boogers on Twitter who sit by a computer everyday follow Chris Brown’s lead.
Hit me on Twitter if you wanna call me a snitch.
