Is rapping a mental illness?

[Gary L]

HMP Birminghan inmates release prison cell rap music on YouTube.

Demehl Thomas and Moysha Shepherd reportedly used illegal mobile phone to record rap in HMP Birmingham

He appears with Shepherd, also known as Big Stygs, in the clip which has been viewed 10,000 times.
During the rap Thomas says: “I wanna mansion and I want my kids to live good.
“I don’t want to get locked up or killed in the hood.”
The 25-year-old goes on to threaten to ‘blast heads’ adding he has no time for ‘fake ho’s’.

A second mobile phone can be seen charging on the table during the video, as the pair perform wearing black tank tops.

Bent screws.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news...prison-9870984

[Stephen]

What on earth has rapping got to do with mental health??

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Stephen

What on earth has rapping got to do with mental health??

You have to be deranged to like it?

[Gary L]

Mental health comes in many forms. it's about the state of mind and how it works.

there's no reason why rapping isn't a form of this.

mental / health / mind / illness.

trust me. I'm a psychologist.

[mrmistoffelees]

If rapping was a mental illness GaryL would be up there with Dre, Eazy E, Eminem and all of Run DMC

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

You have to be deranged to like it?

That's a good point.
joining in means you're on the deffo list.

[papa smurf]

my eldest son is into rap -i have never heard so much shizzle on the bizzle from the nizzle

its garbage what a talent-less bunch of nobody's these rappers are
and why do their girlfriends all have huge asses

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Bent screws.

Not really sure where mental health comes into it. Also, have you any evidence that it is bent screws? It is (I believe) a chargeable offence for a prison officer to give a prisoner a mobile phone. At the very least they would lose their job. If they do end up being charged and in prison, they would spend the whole duration of their stay in serious danger. Think I'm joking? I have a friend who is a prison officer, and he said that the prison service advise officers that if he met anyone and they asked what job he did, that he should say he is a civil servant and not say any more. The reason being that prisoners have family and friends, and he could be risking serious injury (or death) by telling people he doesn't really know that he is a prison officer.

I think it's likely the mobile was taken in another way. You'd be surprised how inventive prisoners' families and friends are in finding ways to get things into prison. In fact, I suspect that if some of them showed half as much ingenuity in keeping their friends/family out of prison as they do in getting stuff into them, the world would be a better place.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

If rapping was a mental illness GaryL would be up there with Dre, Eazy E, Eminem and all of Run DMC

I'm sucking through my teeth at ya.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Not really sure where mental health comes into it. Also, have you any evidence that it is bent screws? It is (I believe) a chargeable offence for a prison officer to give a prisoner a mobile phone. At the very least they would lose their job.

Having spoken to a friend who *is* a prison officer, I think it's likely the mobile was taken in another way. You'd be surprised how inventive prisoners' families and friends are in finding ways to get things into prison. In fact, I suspect that if some of them showed half as much ingenuity in keeping their friends/family out of prison as they do in getting stuff into them, the world would be a better place.

you just had to go there didn't you

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Originally Posted by Gary L

I'm sucking through my teeth at ya.

word bro

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Originally Posted by Gary L

Mental health comes in many forms. it's about the state of mind and how it works.

there's no reason why rapping isn't a form of this.

mental / health / mind / illness.

trust me. I'm a psycho

fixed that for ya

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

my eldest son is into rap -i have never heard so much shizzle on the bizzle from the nizzle

its garbage what a talent-less bunch of nobody's these rappers are
and why do their girlfriends all have huge asses

it's for balancing. so they don't topple forwards.

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

fixed that for ya

Cheers, blood

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Gary L

it's for balancing. so they don't topple forwards.

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Cheers, blood

your welcome now get out o my grill reeeeespec

[Kursk]

I hate rap. It's the last refuge of the utterly talentless.

[MalteseFalcon]

I definitely concur with Specsavers. My eyesight is worse, I only saw one p in rapping.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Kursk

I hate rap. It's the last refuge of the utterly talentless.

no dude that's the Lycra shop