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A document titled “Ja Rule and 50 Cent Leave Blood on the Tracks” filled the screen. As I read the article, it became clear that this was José’s commentary on the latest feud between rival hip-hop artists. Such conflicts had led to the murders of some of rap music’s biggest stars in recent months.

José pulled a butterfly knife from his back pocket and whipped it around above his head like a rodeo ninja. “What can you even say? You ain’t down with the game, the youth, the Native Americans.”

“These gangstas gots to be bigger than that,” he wrote. “They gots to leave the beef char-broiling at Burger King and stick to making dope records. We all remember those who been felled by the bullet: Biggie Smalls, Tupac Shakur, and Notorious BIG. But ain’t nothing ever gonna bring ’em back. We can’t afford to lose no more of our voices from the ghetto to senseless murder and mayhem. I got a message for all you rhyme-slingers out there thinking you badder than Ice-T in NWA: Leave the damn blood on the tracks.”