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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Kids and Guns

Posted by Bossip Staff

Here is a video of Prodigy from Mobb Deep teaching his son how to fire a “shotty” on his 7th birthday. Any thoughts?

Topics: SMH

Comments(135) on “Kids and Guns”

Dec 19, 2007 - 10:57 am

Ms. Lovely

First, always wanted to do that.

Ms. Lovely
Dec 19, 2007 - 10:58 am

justmoi

I personally think that’s *****ing disgusting!

Just like my language, lol.

But seriously that’s wrong on so many levels.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:00 am

Ms. Lovely

Being a woman I can’t comment on what a man should teach his son. I do appriciate the fact that at least the man is trying to show is son something and is interested and involed in raising his son.

Ms. Lovely
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:02 am

Kay

Prodigy needs his ***** beat!!! Where the hell is CPS? Instead of ivestigating parents who spank their children, they need to have their noses all in this type of sh*t!!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:03 am

ms. collins

AND THAT MAKES HIM MORE OF A STUPID ***** JERK! THAN I EVER THOUGHT HE WAS! AND HE EXPECT HIS CHILD TO BE WHAT WHEN HE GROW UP! A *****IN FELON WHERE HE WOULD HAVE TO DEPEND ON PEOPLE FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE AND NOT TO MENTION A FELON THAT WOULDNT BE ABLE TO STAND ON HIS OWN TWO FEET WITH OUT DOING SOME ILLEGAL *****! THE TRUTH IS YOU LIVE BY IT YOU DIE BY IT! WHAT A *****ING IDIOT!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:04 am

Kay

Ms. Lovely, are you serious?? If he wants to teach him something, teach him to read!!!! Teach him how to be a man, not another wanna be thug out on the streets!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:05 am

basketball

Teach the kid to read good books, study, learn, speak properly and become smart, not how to shoot people in the head.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:06 am

FyreStarrter

@ Key, yeah I don’t have any other words for this mess, you said it perfectly!! SMDH!!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:09 am

***** DEEP

Roll for Dolo?

Prodigy is crazy.. not for teaching his son how to shoot a gun.. but for the fact his silly ***** posted it on youtube.

Better daddy show his son how to shoot then your local street thugs..but who knows??
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:09 am

Soul Cry

Well…many hill billies think that it is okay to teach their children to fire a weapon. Seen as a right of p*****age.

That being said, it’s pathetic. Teach him to read a book. Teach him to aspire to his full potential. Teach him that the Most High has great expectations for him.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:10 am

kee

wowwwww ms. lovely…U WOULD BE THE TYPE OF HEFFA THATS DOWN TO LET YOUR CHILD BE TAUGHT SOMETHING AS IGNORANT AS THIS……thats is what wrong with people today…to stupid to raise a child…….and dumb enough to let men like this be around them….

GROW THE FREAK UP!!

BE SMART, NOT DUMB!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:10 am

NAIS

“thoughts”? funny..obviously Prodigy hasnt had one in a minute
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:12 am

Dee

All of you MF on here don’t know nothing about raising a boy. Nothing is wrong with teaching your kid how to use a gun. All you have to do is let him know right from wrong. Guns are sometimes used as selfdefense!!! Go back and read the bible and you will see where men of GOD makes them young kids kill

a evil MF with the sword.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:15 am

Hemi

Hello, white people take their kids to the shooting range all day long. That’s why they know how to shoot schools and malls up. My father took me to the range, and I feel confident with a fire arm in my hand and looks can be deceiving, a child might save your life with a strap. If it was illegal little white people would be in jails as much as Hispanic and Black people. Plus if you teach a child how to respect a weapon they will handle it better than all these idiots, mesmerized by them and killing people senselessly.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:15 am

Sim1

I think at age 7, it is impossible to teach a child to use a gun responsibly. Black men are constantly killed and jailed due to gun violence. I’m sure he wasn’t teaching him to shoot because he’s gonna take him out to the woods to shoot deer! And even if he were its still not right. The boy is too young to be holding a gun. And with his father, Prodigy, glorifying murder and guns in his music..and I’m sure his son has seen his videos and knows all the lyrics……come on.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:16 am

504okaay

Soul Cry

Well…many hill billies think that it is okay to teach their children to fire a weapon. Seen as a right of p*****age.

^^^^^

I WAS GONNA MENTION THAT TOO….I THINK 7 YEARS OLD IS TOO YOUNG TO TEACH A CHILD HOW TO FIRE A GUN…FOCUS ON TEACHING YOUR SON HOW TO READ & WRITE FIRST CAUSE I’M SURE HE DOESN’T HAVE THAT DOWN PACK.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:17 am

Tinkerbella

Nothing like a little violence on a Wednesday. Nothing says ignorant folk like that video. When I was 7 I wished for a sundae from Friendly’s. It’s one thing for an adult to part of the delinquency that infests our neighborhoods. It’s another for him to be training a future thug. Repulsive!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:19 am

Tinkerbella

Yes, hil billies do it. They usually tend to shoot deer and quail. Prodigy promotes shooting human, two-legged targets. Thats the problem.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:20 am

Sim1

The issue is not about what white ppl allow their children to do. We’re talking about this particular individual. The lyrics, the criminal record, the glorifying of murder in his music (whether its for entertainment or not)..and teaching his child fire a gun..Its just doesn’t feel like a good, RESPONSIBLE mix. Again, talking about Prodigy and HIS son. I’m sure there are ppl who use guns responsibly, but he doesn’t strike me as any kind of role model, I’m sorry. And don’t get me wrong, I like Mobb Deep–will bump their songs all day long..but this doesn’t seem right to me. IMO, of course.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:21 am

Kay

Ummm, Dee, I have two sons, and their father and I are not about to teach them how to shoot a damn gun!!! That is foolishness at it’s worst! All I can say is, parents you need to raise your children right, before the county jail does it for you!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:21 am

justmoi

@ Ms. Lovely

You believe that because you’re a woman it’s not your place to comment on what a man should teach his son, but as a mother of a son I can catergorically say that if my son’s father thought that this was performing his fatherly duties, I would keep him the hell away from my child. To me this is NOT a display of parental love. Are we not as parents supposed to want better for our children, I co-sign with everybody else on here who believes he should be prioritising on instilling values and education as a MAN and a FATHER!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:28 am

Ms. Lovely

Love all the comments. I don’t believe in judging, that is just me. Plus I believe if you make something taboo to a child it will make them more interested in it, so maybe (giving the him the benefit of the doubt) he wants to responsibly show his son about guns. We have to accept Americans have the right to bear arms.

Ms. Lovely
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:28 am

Traydayz

Funny how most people on here look at that as a future thug, criminal, etc. If Prodigy was a white man teaching his son to shoot everybody on here would have thought it would have been for hunting. The self racism on here is sickening.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:30 am

K1

I don’t know why anyone is even trippin, those rednecks teach their kids how to hunt and shoot at the same age, matter of fact its a right of p*****age for those hicks.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:32 am

Bird

Lawd help us all. I guess we should just hope he gets life on his first murder so he doesn’t get the chance to kill a bunch of folks with his killer aim.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:32 am

Tinkerbella

Self racism? His father speaks of murder and violence. Do you really think Prodigy *****ociates “gun” with “law abiding citizen exercising their 2nd amendment right?
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:34 am

Tinkerbella

If you make it taboo it will be more interesting? My father kept me away from crack….I never found that to be interesting.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:34 am

Unkle Kracka

an who says the revolooshun wont be telavized, heh, heh
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:37 am

justmoi

@ Traydayz

I think it was Tinkabella? who put it best, prodigy was not in the forest teaching him to hunt they were at a shooting ranch learning target practice for a human target this combined with his father’s music and lifestyle is probably what led to the conclusion the above mentioned came to. This wasn’t Babyface or Eddie Murphy this was Prodigy and I think people were judging this more on an individual basis.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:38 am

mr. atlas

truthfully there isnt nothin wrong with it better then one of his friends teaching him and i am not racist but this has something to do with race white people take there sons to hunt to kill not to shot at paper. i think you scared we will end up being more self reliate without there racist as cops around.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:40 am

Soul Cry

@Traydayz

where or not I think it’s right…you’re on point. I don’t know Prodigy, don’t know what he has to say as an artist…
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:41 am

Bird

Unkle Kracka

an who says the revolooshun wont be telavized, heh, heh

***********************************************

LMAO!!!!!!

I love you Uncle Kracka!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:44 am

Zero Soul

A man with three guilty counts of gun charges against him is teaching a seven year old kid who lives in the city how to casually fire a “shotty” at man-shaped targets, and your best response is “WHITEY DO IT, TOO!?”

Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that a farm kid learning to hunt is the same as an inner-city kid firing a shotgun he isn’t even big enough to handle. The “*****in’ wit us? Betta get ya guns up!” and “ain’t nothin’ like murder in New York” captions really let you know how this video is all about proper gun handling and safety and how to provide food for your family, right?
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:51 am

Tinkerbella

“truthfully there isnt nothin wrong with it better then one of his friends teaching him and i am not racist but this has something to do with race white people take there sons to hunt to kill not to shot at paper. i think you scared we will end up being more self reliate without there racist as cops around.”

HUH??????

and zero soul….I completely agree
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:52 am

ThrowBack '87

Why does he keep refering to is son as “yo”. Aiight “yo”, a “yo”. Ridiculous antics for white poeple to view, just keep reinforcing the stereotypes people!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:58 am

Me

Yall missing the point! He was teaching his son to “shoot to kill” – not self defense. He was using a shot gun! Who’s walking round with that *****? Did you hear the ignorant chick in the background? I’m *****uming it was the mother. They ended it with the title Murder in NY! He’s glorifying murder and teaching his son wrong values. And what was up with the “drive by” type scene at the end and all the cop cars??? That video was real suspect – Prodigy and his Baby Mama are both nut *****es.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:58 am

TMREVENTS

White People are loving this! They want us to shoot and kill each other. I’m sick of these dumb ***** people that have no purpose in this world bring up kids that are going to end up to just as *****ING RETARDED as they are. He needs to be locked up for that. Ignorant ***** piece of *****!!!!!!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:03 pm

And Another One...

Its a damn shame – Wonder if this video was made before Prodigy caught all those cases? Either way he should know better. I don’t understand why you would want your little man knowing how to fire weapons – play soccer or somethin.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:07 pm

tracy

I’m going to try to find the light at the end of the tunnel here guys. At least if he gets into shooting his brothers & sisters, chances are slighter that he would hit any innocent bystanders. Sigh!!!

And what’s up with the females language throughout the video? Sheesh. Was she once a sailor? SMH
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:08 pm

CK

yea, this is some *****. the whole intentions behind it. crazy. but on a different note, white people do this all the time…take their kids on hunting trips or what not. I know the first time I shot a gun was when I was about 7 or 8 (haven’t shot one since), my dad showed me how to shoot his shotgun when we were fishing, so his kid is not doomed to kill someone but I personally think its irresponsible and the whole video makes the intentions look bad.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:09 pm

ms. collins

say it again zero soul! and once again if you want this to be about race let do so i bet when the hill billies tought they son at seven how to fire a weapon didnt think they would pull the fire alarm wait for the kids and teachers to run out and then fire there weapon into the crowd! and colibine and the mall and all the other tragic events that happened with kids and guns! if you want to go race yeah he wont go into no mall or school but he damn show will kill another black man if you give him a chance and that is why this is sad! if prodigy stood for something then yeah! if he was malcom teaching his son uuuuhhhh yeah! but him hell no! in where i am from 10 20 LIFE! AND then he child is took by the goverment and then he do the time!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:14 pm

Sim1

Self racism? Huh. Its not that deep. Its Prodigy-the man with the record, the man who glorifies murder–teaching his child to fire a gun–not for hunting purposes. If it was a white man with the same history I’d be thinking the same thing. Folks quick to jump on each other for having a negative opinion about another black person. Wrong is wrong. Not self racism. Just ignorant Prodigy. Simple and plain. And stop screaming about what white ppl do, as if they set the standard–that’s irrelevant here.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:17 pm

SpearChucker

Ms Lovely, you have ***** for brains.

and why were they shooting a black figure on the target? so he can grow up shooting other blacks.

*****s never gonna change as long as we have *****holes like you making excuses for knuckleheads
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:21 pm

Sim1

Ms. Lovely,

WOW. So he should let the boy smoke crack too..so it won’t be taboo to him when he grows up. Jeez..
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:23 pm

ms. collins

say the truth this ***** is sad! the future is going to be way worst than the present with parents teaching they child to shot at seven so he teaching him how to have sex curse and rob and steal to! i guess he teaching him how to survive in the streets before he end up in jail! he just set his self up for faliure! i hate to say it but i bet you any ammount of money that child services try in snacth his son then he gone be singing another toon!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:28 pm

LdyK

This is beyond sad it’s disgusting!

He needs to learn addition and subtraction and how to read, not how to”hold it down low to check the barrel”

secondly who is this stupid ***** ***** narrator? i hope for the sake of the kid it’s NOT his mother. Why is that cute.

this should have been labled as

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:29 pm

Sim1

Zero Soul, you hit the nail on the head. Boggles the mind that some ppl can be so damn clueless. Lord, Jesus.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:31 pm

OMG

I agree with Hemi 100%. This type of thing is done a lot. And I can’t say I think it is wrong as long as his intentions aren’t bad. Prodigy is an entertainer who has made mistakes, but you and I have no idea what he teaches his child about violence or life.

The only thing I did not like was the fact that he is posting it on youtube. That makes me wonder about his intentions and what he is trying to prove.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:33 pm

KillaBeeSwarm

Seven years old. Seems a little young to be making decisions and discernment about handling and firing a weapon. I’ll have to ask the folks how old I was when I learned to shoot a gun and bow-n-arrow.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:36 pm

SNP

Some people are just born stupid & take pride in the wrong things. Then African people want to wonder why prisons are full of black men while white kids (although mostly spoilt & ignorant) get educated & drive around in BMW’s from age 16!

Charity begins @ home & this is just disgusting on so many levels! Its truly wrong…that child is innocent!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:37 pm

Luvluyfe

I certainly do not agree with this behavior, but white people show there children at a very young age how to clean, handle and shoot a gun. It only becomes wrong when we teach ours.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:43 pm

SpearChucker

some whites teach their kids to hunt deer and pheasants and *****. white people don’t teach their kids to shoot each other
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:45 pm

Southern Belle 225

What kind of bull***** is this? This little boy is 7 years old. Why would he need to learn how to use a gun at this age? Maybe he should be teaching this kid how to read and do math or maybe learn how to use the computer. What an idiot!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:46 pm

imrightdammit

They should fit him for his little orange jumpsuit now. Why wait til later to incarcerate him? I say save the tax payers money and lock him up STAT!
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:47 pm

persona

Well NRA members do it all the time. They go hunting. In New york, I guess they go to a shooting range.

We need better gun control.

It’s not illegal though so what can I say?
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:51 pm

SpearChucker

@ imrightdammit

yeah a little orange jumpsuit or, from what I’m seen of his shooting skills, a little coffin
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:51 pm

persona

I disagree with kids learning how to shoot guns, PERIOD. That includes the kids on farms. I also disagree with the stupid get your guns up written on youtube.

>>>A man with three guilty counts of gun charges against him is teaching a seven year old kid who lives in the city how to casually fire a “shotty” at man-shaped targets, and your best response is “WHITEY DO IT, TOO!?”>>

Now I also disagree with the notion that a city kid should not learn to shoot because, well, they live in the city. What kid PERIOD, including on farms, needs to learn how to shoot a gun? And, well, it’s the FARM kids shooting up schools. It’s the inner city kids shooting up street corners.

And no, neither one is acceptable. However, if it’s not illegal, then I can’t condemn anyone here. I can just say that laws need to change. I’m not going to say just BLACK kids need to not learn how to fire guns.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:52 pm

brothaman

Teaching your child survival tactics is essential.When they are old enough they should learn from their father.Fishing,hunting and camping are all good life learning lessons.Survival is something we preach but very rarely teach.Other people make sure their kids can live without stores and electicity.the way black people are being hunted they going to need those skills one day.You know a child under 14 very rarely shows responsibility,so 7 years with this knowledge and no true sense of right and wrong is deadly.If that child has guns in his home he will try to use it independently.The father might be staring down the barrel of his own teachings.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:52 pm

imrightdammit

@persona, Do you raise your children based on only what’s legal? Or do you raise them based on common sense, values, morals? A lot of things are legal but you don’t advocate your children doing them. Prepare them to be smart, and have character, and know what manhood is, not prepare them for jail and violence.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:53 pm

pocohontas

He needs God in his life…all he is doing is teaching him how to continue black on black crime. Then they wonder why brothers kill each other…Great Example.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:57 pm

Kismet

OK I must ask. So what if “White” people do it? Does that mean we have to do it? Does it make it right? NO!!!! This CHILD is learning how to kill this is CRAZY on so many levels it is not even funny! I for one will be call child protective services in NY!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:01 pm

Luvluyfe

Please don’t misinterpret what I am saying… this video is distrubing to say the least but it does not mean that he is teaching his son to go out and murder. WE tend to condone this type of behavior if its done by a Bill Cosby or a Bill Gates but because Prodigy is a rapper it seems to send a different message in peoples mind. Please don’t *****ume that he is not instilling morals and values in his son what he do know is that he is teaching a seven yr old to shoot a gun as to many white families and we are being *****uming that this is all the knowledge he is p*****ing along. would this be something I would teach my children No but its being done in many homes and its just not Prodigy’s.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:03 pm

ms. collins

HEY EVERY ONE a white family just got arrested for this showing ***** online a mom got arrested cause the daughter was imatating the landlord! and the little girl had a ciggerete in her mounth mom is facing time! and what do i see in prodigy future! please if anyone know him let him be aware they coming and coming fast so be aware in get your lawyer and bond money up cause they coming for your *****! if you dont belive me go to cnn .com you would see mom faces time do to internet spoof!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:04 pm

BossLady

Kids and adults alike should learn how to PROPERLY store, handle, and discharge a firearm. It is a statistical fact that many gun shot wounds are self inflicted or due to friendly fire – because folks don’t know how to handle them. Prodigy was not wrong. He just needs to instill the proper values and responsibilities that come with owning a gun.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:05 pm

45150

wtf…ARE YOU FU*KING KIDDING ME??? *SMH*
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:05 pm

SNP

True…the child laerning how to use that weapon is just plain crazy & stupid! This is beyond Black & white & if someone actually took that example i used to justify teaching that child just coz “white people do so in their farms!” then we all have a long way to go…

“Live by the sword…die by the sword”….and the vicious cycle goes on!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:08 pm

Diana

Ya’ll all wak!! Ya’ll act as if we live in a society were everyone is equal and free to do as they please. We have to protect ourselves out here and that’s what P is doing with his son. Ya’ll don’t know P and his family and what else is being taught to the kids, stop *****uming and let’s stop tearing eachother down.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:11 pm

ms. collins

and just cause it may seem right its not! and just cause alot of people is doing does not make it right! the path to destruction is wide but the path to eternal life is small in narrow! you pick a side!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:13 pm

lampshadehead

what i want to know is how I teach my kids to stay away from kids like this?? how many times has an innocent kid got shot and killed cause they got friends that have homes where guns are cool, thug life is glorified and they play with guns! this is pure ignorance. why would you want to bring something that could kill somebody else and bring a whole world of unimaginable pain that one can only feel when they have lost a child or a loved one to violence, why would you want to introduce your child to such violence? it is also very selfish because he could very well take the life of somebodys child. selfishness and ignorance is going unchecked in our communities and is destroying us!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:16 pm

Bronx Brawler

Bosslady you’re a idiot point blank. This kid can blast a shotgun, but can’t do a algebra problem. We wonder why our people are in such bad shape. We have fools like BossLady & Prodigy procreating. If your parents are clowns than most likely you’ll be groomed to become a clown too.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:19 pm

SNP

All i can say is charity begins @ home. I dont know why Diana is calling people “wak” & sounding so *****ed off @ an open discussion that peolpe decided to get involved in…

Diana you can say whatever helps you sleep at night …. but respecting everyone’s opinion would be a great start towards changing this “society” you say we live in; that requires 7 year olds to learn how to use a gun to protect themselves!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:30 pm

BossLady

@ Bronx Brawler-

You have anger issues. I hope you don’t own a gun. LOL. No seriously….

I didn’t say anything about what he did in the video. As a matter of fact them , I didn’t watch the video yet. You can tell that if you read the original post. What I said was PROPERLY. That means time and dedication. If you rear them with respect for human life and the knowledge of a gun and what it is capable of doing, which is NOT ONLY TAKING A LIFE, BUT SAVING A LIFE, then maybe we wouldn’t have trigger happy people running around.

And the boy is 7. I doubt he needs to know algebra.

And no, you don’t have ‘fools like me procreating’. I haven’t had the pleasure of a creep like you laying anything in me as of yet. Hold ya breath, tho.

Muah!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:36 pm

Baby Please

No intellectual pursuit for this child. Nope. He is being taught to maim and murder, ultimately. The white guy (save the redneck who is showing his seven-year old how to kill pheasant and ducks and *****) is showing his child how to play chess.

Does his father read to him Frederick Dougl***** with the same enthusiasm he shows when he is teaching this child how to fire a rifle?

So much more could be said about this.

http://www.theblackactor.com
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:37 pm

official

Black parents show their son LOVE.(maybe that is what they know)

Isn’t that besutiful -

The Black family that shoots together- becomes statistics together awwwwwww, so sweet.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:39 pm

ms. collins

@ diana

you seem to know prodigy so please let him know that they locking people ***** up for this foolishness! so please advise him to get that bond money and lawyer money up!
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:39 pm

NubianGoddez

Cosign @ Soul Cry

Well…many hill billies think that it is okay to teach their children to fire a weapon. Seen as a right of p*****age.

That being said, it’s pathetic. Teach him to read a book. Teach him to aspire to his full potential. Teach him that the Most High has great expectations for him.

The reality is white groups in America believes a race riot is coming and have been arming them self and homes for decades. rent the movie bowling for Columbine. their are many white groups that are anti government, anti black and anti any other race and believe in teaching their children how to use gun’s. so I’m torn on this issue I believe in protecting one’s self and family and if my husband wanted to take my son to a range, I doubt I would object. sadly this is the reality in America, I was used to go to the range and had a piece and remember the first time I held a gun in my hand, let’s just say if I was a man my ***** would be hard. I had never felt so powerful and was young a foolish which led me to pistol whip a couple folks and was ordered into anger management by the judge. with that being said, it takes a lot a maturity to handle a gun, my boyfriend own a nice piece which he has a license to carry and I have been thinking about applying for a license to get me a piece, now that I’m more mature and have learned many lesson’s about anger taking control of you. does not mean I won’t ever get angry but I will never let it run away with me. I’m from the school of thought an eye for an eye so if yt thinks he’s going to stock up on guns and come around with his *****ery or any body else that think they want to just break in and rob or do some other vile ***** to me and my family. I have no qualms of busting a cap in ***** *****. as a Pan Africanist the idea of defending yourself against another is divine right, I’m not in that *****ery of turning the other cheek, yt put that ***** in the bible so he do all kinds of dirt to other people and they are just supposed to take it and wait on God to punish his *****. no we Jamaicans don’t cosign that type of *****ery mentality. I wish I could say this was not the reality in this country but it is. now Prodigy needs his ***** beat!! for making that ***** public.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:55 pm

Akimbo

I want to be mad, but like everyone has said, white people take their kids to the range, skeet-shooting, and hunting all the time.

If I read one more story about some four year-old killing a bear or a 6 year-old catching a whale, I’m gonna scream.
Dec 19, 2007 - 1:57 pm

GhostWriter

Aint Prodigy the same cat that got snuffed by Keith Murray? I guess you better know how to use a gun when your knuckle game is whack.
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:01 pm

The Goddess

What a f’in Dumb *****. Now when his son messes around and shoots some one or shoots himself, he’ll be the first one wondering why. This is SO freaking disappointing.
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:04 pm

PrettyMissSunshine

This is the most pathetic display of parenting I’ve ever seen and this is not a black or white issues, as many of you bossip bloggers like to make EVERYTHING, this is about responsibilty. Now what if one day, this little boy takes this same gun, and tries to show another little boy what his dad taught him and accidentally shots and kills him? Then it would be, the parents fault for having the gun in the house or then maybe it wasn’t ok for his dad to teach him how to use a gun at seven years old? Come on people think!!!! He is seven, not seventeen!!! and his father should have known better. And what is he doin in possesion of a gun anyway with three priors?
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:08 pm

shane dash

“Even my pops died he tuahgt me how to buck when I was seven. I love my pops for that” My father taught me how to shoot around that age and I still use what he taught me to this day. I’m not a thug or a gangsta and school tauhgt me how to read. My father teaching me to shoot a gun helped me when I jioned the military and Prodigy might be hoping his son becomes a cop or a soldier. Guns don’t kill people yu know the rest. DEUCES
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:14 pm

Narcotics Anonymous

Prodigy got taught to shoot at the same age…My five year old will be doing dips, pushups and situps and learning the downfalls and pluses of Guns….African warriors are bred, they didn’t wait until the son was 20 to start teaching em how to knock a wildebeest down
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:18 pm

Moi

Here in the dirty dirty we’d call the son’s training: A Late bloomer.
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:20 pm

Moi

I hate guns.
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:30 pm

Amy

I just want to point out the woman in the back ground. She sounds like the kids mother and seems more facinated by the shooting than anyone else in the video. With that said. I think it is disgusting that he is teaching his 7 yr old this. It is one thing to teach a kid to hunt animals, but people are a whole other matter. Prodigy and his wife/girl/baby mama are sick, and should get a vist from DCS!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:42 pm

PrettyMissSunshine

Yo, some of you bloggers are thee most ignorant people I have ever encountered. You guys don’t posses an intelligent thought in your whole idiotic brains. The beginning of the video said ” Better have Enough Guns if you Fu%ing With Us” And at the end of the video it Said” Ain’t nothing like Murder in New York” And you idiots think he is teaching his son how to be a black warrior? When you guys reference to how white people have been taking their kids to gun ranges, I agree, yes white people do take their kids to gun ranges but who are the people that you see getting killed in these streets?

Not young white people but young black people and when you instill this type of value less value in your children you allow them to believe that the way that our people our living to die is an inevitability and that is very untrue. And to the people defending that fact the Prodigy was taught to shoot a gun at age seven and he turned ok, that’s a lie. This man is a convicted felon. Who the hell wants that for their children? As a parent your, suppose to want more for your children and stray them from the destructive paths that you encountered growing up not entice them to follow in the same destructive foot prints.
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:57 pm

GhostWriter

PrettyMissSunshine is on point. Unfortunately there isn’t enough of us-es willing to step up and say it stops with our kids. We are truly a minority. It’s a damn shame.
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:25 pm

Big Daddy Vee

Leave Prodigy alone. He was just spending quality time with his seed before he serves a 3 year bid in January. I’m sure he really wanted to teach him the art of gun handling at 10, but he will still be in jail for that birthday. His 10 year old is the new man of the house so he has to hold the fort down. He’s a grown man now!
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:26 pm

tracy

My people, my people…..Please tell me why the fact that white people teach their children to shoot a gun is even relevant right now. Our community has a problem with guns. Our children are killing our other children at an alarming rate. WHO THE HELL CARES WHAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE DOING WITH THEIR KIDS??? WE NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON OURS!! Then…….. if we so desire, we can start a “What are the white people doing with their kids” club. Give me a freakin break. The person (right now I’m having a hard time saying fath…..) teaching him how to use this weapon has been arrested for gun charges. I was not there but TRUST, he was NOT on his way to shoot rabbit or deer. Maybe I missed it, but did he ever refer to his son by his name?? I just kept hearing a series of yo’s. WTH? The wife or girlfriend or whatever sounded just as bad as Prodigy. So to all who love to jump on the “white man” wagon, while what you say may be true, there is a much bigger picture here. So please – stop playing!
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:34 pm

Black

As much as I like ur music your actions with ur son is just plain silly and not responsible. That’s how parents go to jail behind some of thier children actions. I feel that u could’ve waited till he was of llegal age and could fully understand what u were teaching him. Get it together where was the mama if is she allowed this she’s just as silly.
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:39 pm

persona

I don’t have kids. And yes, my kids will be lawful.
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:41 pm

PrettyMissSunshine

@ Ghostwriter

They don’t really hear me though!! Some people are just ignorant, which goes back to what you and I were saying, it stems from the parents. Happy Hoildays and may Godbless you all, even the stupid ones who needs his blessing ths most!!1
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:44 pm

Blaqk

Prodigy is going hard making sure his son is hard. I guess no ballet for him huh, LMAO…
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:45 pm

Silhouette

I’m not surprised. Isn’t this the same guy that said, “Any blood get on my daughter, it’s ok” when he was referring to how he will shoot you in front of his kids? I can’t remember which song it was, but it was a more recent one.

Anyway, I disliked Prodigy before I viewed this video, now I have pity for him. As long as he tries to be street-tough, he won’t be able to shake this mentality he maintains so well. I highly doubt he’s teaching his son to shoot for fun or sport. And if that is the child’s mother, she is even more wrong for allowing this to go down. This boy is not mature enough to understand the significance of this “lesson” and the way his life could turn out because of it.
Dec 19, 2007 - 3:50 pm

DASHA

HE NEEDS HIS ***** KICKED :0 I’LL DO IT
Dec 19, 2007 - 4:20 pm

Growing Pains is Garbage!!

I got my first gun when I was four for XMas. I haven’t hurt anyone, only a few animals!!!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 4:44 pm

SKR

I guess the ignorant lil ***** got lots of time to play with guns since jay-z ended his career at summer jam that year. And the ***** ***** dont know how to properly hold a shotty
Dec 19, 2007 - 5:08 pm

lucky

So the ***** what!! You think those trailer park white folks are not teaching there kids how to kill all the time. If we don’t teach are own who is.
Dec 19, 2007 - 5:08 pm

remyblack

i think that it is good that he is teaching his son how to shoot. People might not know that lil white kids are taught who to shoot all the time. My farther taught me how to shoot when i was young and showed my how to shoot all of his guns
Dec 19, 2007 - 5:13 pm

SKR

Why *****s always got to bring up white folks who gives a ***** what white folks do!
Dec 19, 2007 - 5:30 pm

c

Thats not a good look for p. No wonder the judge slapped him with 3 1/2 years box
Dec 19, 2007 - 6:00 pm

DIAMONDCHEERS

yup 1 thought exactly

*****HOLE!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 6:19 pm

MJRG

This is just crazy. Why in the world would anybody want to brag about teaching their child to shoot a gun??? Much less film it! This is why we have kids accidentally shooting their friends because momma and daddy don’t have enough sense to know that a gun is not for children. I mean we got adults that are to stupid to take on the responsibility of a gun. When will we learn, that teaching you son to shoot or your daughter to pop lock and drop it that ***** is not cute. If that was his son talking, Prodigy should have been teaching him to speak like a seven year old. If that was his mom in the back she should be ashamed for thinking it was cool and going along with it. Don’t bring your child up to be like you bring them up to be better than you. STOP THE DAMN MADNESS!!!!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 6:22 pm

VI_ISLAND_QUEEN1

I wont be suprised if he killed his parents or shot up his school!! That was crazy!! I wouldn’t let those unfit parents watch my kid!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 7:09 pm

bgirl

That was the most disturbing video I’ve ever seen. I’m all for the right to defend oneself…but I’d rather see his child READING and I’m sure there are other, more worthwhile tasks he could do with his son. And who was the simple ***** in the background co-signing everything that was going on? If that was his son’s mother, I’ma pimp smack that Ho down to the floor!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 7:27 pm

Teisha

I think this is so disgusting. How can you show your 7 year old son how to shoot a gun. Regardless, if he is raising him or not. Show him how to read a *****ing book or show him how to ride a *****ing horse or something, not how to shoot a gun. And the mother (or whomever is talking in the background) should be ashame that she is even video taping it!!!
Dec 19, 2007 - 8:24 pm

SayIt

@ kay thats right, dudes should be teaching their sons something positive & productive, there are enough gun tottin’fools on tha street as it is!
Dec 19, 2007 - 8:45 pm

K-dawg

He’s teaching his son how to be a coward, just like Daddy! Prodigy was (and probably still is) the local punching bag in the neighborhood. I think they even named him “punching bag P” so it doesnt surprise me that he is encouraging his son to use a gun instead of anything else. I respect parents that send their kids to self-defense cl***** more than this bull*****! The only way that this could possibly be useful is if he lets his son walk around with the loaded gun. Otherwise, its all for show! Punching Bag P need to get a life! He better go learn how to make shanks to get ready for that bid!
Dec 19, 2007 - 8:51 pm

***** ***** ***** ***** Please

Traydayz wrote:

“Funny how most people on here look at that as a future thug, criminal, etc. If Prodigy was a white man teaching his son to shoot everybody on here would have thought it would have been for hunting. The self racism on here is sickening”

Oh so true….wake up brothaz and sistahz.
Dec 19, 2007 - 8:53 pm

Ace

White people teach their kids how to shoot at young ages, they call it hunting. Unfortunately the reality may be that instead of Prodigy teaching his son a skill that may benefit him in an absolute necessary situation, he may be incorporating the ignorance of using a gun as a means of expression and/or defense in unnecessary situations like an argument or jeolusy.
Dec 19, 2007 - 9:08 pm

Herpes Holder

Big up P! He show that lil ***** how to represent the screets
Dec 19, 2007 - 9:16 pm

Tyrone M. Wild

There’s nothing wrong with this. Little man obviously should learn other things, but shooting should not be excluded. it’s like learning a martial art. with the proper guidance lil man can be a multi faceted warrior, which is what our folks need. I’m not down with ignorance at all… feed his mind, and train him to be ready for ALL situations. These are serious times that we’re in & they aint getting any better….
Dec 19, 2007 - 9:41 pm

MJRG

Tyrone key word “little man” The ignorance of prodigy doing that is no difference than the ignorance of some Iraqis telling their children to become suicide bombers. Its a winless situation and as far as the racism card being pulled…Come on ya’ll stop being stupid. He does not have his son shooting at deer and rabbits in the woods and we all know that because the target practice paper was a man. Even with the whites teaching there kids you see how its turning on them, kids going around shooting their parents and shooting up schools. The only difference is because of dummies and other individuals who feel they have to live up to the streets and what is expected of them. Our kids are killing each other. We are losing to many strong beautiful black brothers this way and either end ends up dead or in jail. ANYONE who feels that this is o.k. needs to take a long look at the little girl on the next page or two over who is in the hospital struggling for her life, 6 years old shot at the hands of an ignorant black man with a gun. How many more will be shot because of the ones who refuse to stand and continue to say its cool?
Dec 19, 2007 - 10:29 pm

reen

OMG – did you see his hand jerking all over the place while he’s shooting – its funny – i was talking to my son today about guns and i told him the only reason anyone should have a gun is if its part of his job (duh he’s only 6) but i couldn’t imagine him even seeing a gun right now let alone holding or shooting one – whats in his mind right now thats allowing him to think this is okay for a 7yr. old? Thats the damn problem – They need some type of change or something – theres no way you should be learning to shoot a gun like that at 7.
Dec 19, 2007 - 10:31 pm

afroninja

Ummm..WTF type of ***** is that? I can’t believe this stuff. Prodigy makes me ashamed to be black after reading that shiz. I was playing with dolls at seven. Not learning how to shoot a gun and I grew up in the projects. *sigh*. What’s wrong with men today?
Dec 19, 2007 - 10:39 pm

wonkwonk

yall crazy, in the south people learn to safely handle and shoot guns at an early age. deal with it.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:19 pm

PAC

***** MOBB DEEP, ***** biggie, ***** bad boy as a staff, record label, and as a mother *****en crew, and if you want to be down with bad boy than ***** you to.
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:30 pm

Coon to Coon

***** you PAC. You is dead already
Dec 19, 2007 - 11:54 pm

ficay

kids are more important than guns.i think the celebrities should do sth.about this ,but Recently, quite a few celebrities were said to appear on the millionaire luxury club”WealthyKiss.com”. OMG!!! Are these famous guys fond of internet dating for now?? Maybe they are indeed so rich that they feel boring sometimes to need new thing
Dec 20, 2007 - 12:25 am

Mr. Speaks

I believe his gun lesson was justified. The caption said “Family Shotgun!” Which probably means home protection shotgun. Many people are hungry nowadays. They’re coming in your home while ur there. Just ask RedSkin’s Sean Taylor’s daughter. she was there when he got shot
Dec 20, 2007 - 12:34 am

bink

@ Tyrone

It’s not too many brothas dying on the streets from fatal martial arts wounds. Think before you type.
Dec 20, 2007 - 12:42 am

AK

I can’t even believe people like this still exist.
Dec 20, 2007 - 2:50 am

PIMP DADDY

dis nucca is stupid thats why his dumb ***** is going to jail.why the ***** you rollin in a bullet proof suv with a lil 22 and you know you’re on parole.15 years in the game and you still talking bout keep it real i’m in the hood he shoulda been skated.no guns in jail so he better pump up and sew uphis lil tail.
Dec 20, 2007 - 4:03 am

British Black girl

That is one of the most disgusting things I have witness.. All those who wish to justify this father /son bonding session as nothing more than part of the rites of p*****age need to WAKE UP…. I use to be a hardcore MOBB fan, until I realised the lyrics were nothing positive and didnt add any value or understanding to my life.

This man is not trainiing his son to be in the army, he’s teaching him to be a street thug… with all the money they’re always bragging about you would have thought he would put his child in a good school removed from violence, why would you not want better for your offspring.
Dec 20, 2007 - 4:20 am

Tiffany60620

I have 2 sons, 8 and 3, and teaching my 8 year old how to shoot a gun is the fathest thing from my mind. While he is in a controlled enviroment showing how to use the gun, I still believe white or black it is wrong.I agree with an earlier post that said that it is impossible to teach a 7 year old how to use a gun in a responsible manner. And futhermore lets stop justifying our actions based off of what white people do. As sad as it is in this day in age, we can’t do what white people do. Some white person could look at this video and start saying all kinds of ridiculous ***** about how this is whats wrong with hip hop. Look how they turned the whole Imus thing around….
Dec 20, 2007 - 6:26 am

kigali

I think its cool. If Prodigy enrolled his child in a martial arts cl***** and he progressed with his lesson his son would be considered a weapon with restrictions on what he could and couldnt do. All children should be taught to defend themselves. My children will learn how to use weapons and martial arts. Better they not learn it on the street.

All you women here arent used to having fathers so I understand your hysterics.
Dec 20, 2007 - 6:28 am

kigali

Tiffany,

Go to the developing world and see the kinds of responsibilities 7 year olds have. DOnt allow corporate american to infantalize your children. They arent stupid and when raised correctly are capable of alot of good. When raised poorly they are capable of alot of bad.
Dec 20, 2007 - 7:02 am

*****ry Coon

My boy will have his first gun when he learns to talk and will be putting food on the table by the time he is ten.
Dec 20, 2007 - 7:31 am

jj

im sick of us black people acting stupid, why in hell would you teach a child of 7 to shoot, he should taught how to read and write not shoot for any reason, bad parenting and the lady in back ground how *****ing irresponsible is she, that child should be taken from them. A child is not a toy
Dec 20, 2007 - 8:17 am

A +

I feel sick to my stomach watching that. That poor child is not being taught one of life’s many valuable lessons like reading, maths, etc. The whole context of this “lesson” is about shooting to a kill a person. How can the woman talking in the background (one can only presume to be a mother, relative or girlfriend) be a party to this madness, joke about what was obviously a murder scene and be so disrespectful about it to continue filming it!

I know this is in no way representative of black people as a whole – how proud will Daddy Prodigy feel when lil’ Shaka kills for the first time. Will he sit back and smile proudly saying, “ I taught him everything he knows”!! Pathetic and I actually really liked Mobb Deep until the whole G Unot thing – this has truly killed it for me.
Dec 20, 2007 - 11:23 am

PO

I don’t see what the problem is. I am not racist but white folks take there young kids hunting and stuff all the time, and they are killing living things. At least the youngin is shooting paper. Yall need to stop judging. Just because he is showing his son how to shoot doesn’t mean he is going to start murdering people. WAKE THE F**K UP.
Dec 20, 2007 - 1:00 pm

imrightdammit

@Po. You’re an idiot. He’ll probably carjack you first.
Dec 20, 2007 - 2:44 pm

Tiffany60620

kigali,

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that it’s impossible for a 7 year old to be responsible, but with a gun??? If you look the world over I am quite sure that there are children who know how to handle weapons, but is it done in a responsible manner?? My biggest problem with Prodigy is posting the video on youtube. Again I give the man props cause at least he is not in the backyard shootin at cans, but this he shouldn’t have posted this on the internet. I just think that white people don’t need another reason to have something negative to say about the hip hop community.
Dec 20, 2007 - 3:45 pm

Tiffany60620

“It’s time to really, really wake up man,” he said. “These @#*$%s is murderin’ us out here. They lockin’ us up forever out here and we runnin’ out buyin’ jewelry, actin’ like clowns in videos … Like how can you be a @#*$ing buffoon in a video when this sh-t is goin’ on in the world? It’s time to @#*$ing snap out of that sh-t.”

This is a quote from Prodigy on another site (SOHH.com). In the article he talks about how he caught his case and how the cops did him bogus. I was cool with the article until I read this part. I feel him for being *****ed off about the situation he is in, and it is just one more example of how white people like to ***** us over (not all white people, but a vast majority). All that being said, When your about to go away for 3 years for gun possesion is it really smart to post a video of you teaching you son how to shoot a gun?? He should have just kept that ***** to himself.
Dec 20, 2007 - 10:04 pm

NowUknowBetta

Wow, what a great dad. God forbid his child is ever injured while using a weapon. Too many entertainers and athletes try to be their childrens friend and in turn, neglect being a PARENT. I wonder does he put this much interest in his childs education? DOUBTFUL!!!!

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