rappers usually come from hoods that if someone actually knew they had money or anything of value on them, then they become targets of a 2-11..its that simple

Most of the rappers are fake. They didn’t come from the hood and if they did they was not doing half of the things they rap about in those stupid songs that are used to brainwash our people and our black men from becoming what they are destined to be. They need all those body guards because they are soft homosexuals.

CO-sign hash-zeus, otheriwse you might as well have money hanging out of your pockets and have a sign posted on your butt saying” Would you play this game if the target was THIS big”?

becuz if you like it or not a black man from a black community that came into money is a walking target. thats just how it is out here. its the same as why you cant have a nice car with rims and think it aint ppl out there thats gone try and steal it. what yall think becuz they making millions that the rules change. that was a goofy question. if you dont understand that then you might not have ever lived in a poor or ow income environment

She is spot on!! Good video. Having all these bodyguards make these hip hop and rappers feel important!! Its all about the image!

IMO – if they came up ‘side ways’, like corrupt/ruthlessly, then they probably do need security.

This is the dumbest s**t ever duh cuz ppl try and rob and kill they ass what you to stupid to know this if a rapper walk down my street he better have something with him are he gon be naked as hell leaving smh not even funny just a dumb thing to say THINK!!!!!!!!!!

Okay for the people who has not a clue on what happens in life, first of all. I know who Matthew McConaughey is, but if I were to see him on the street in some gym shorts running down the street. I most likely would not just assume (depending on the location of the encounter) that he is some celebrity. I would think he is some average Joe unless I would glance hard enough to recognize him. Now if he was walking down the the street GQ’d from head to toe with a $80,000 Rolex with a chain worth half a million dollars. I am sure he would be recognized and targeted if that was something he did all the time. Now not only do rappers look like this on a regular basis, they also like to rap about the “cash money” they like to keep on themselves at all times. Oh & don’t forget that many rappers have felony criminal backgrounds so they can’t carry a firearm legally (but their bodyguards can). So in other words these rappers are doing the smart thing to keep themselves & their pricey possessions safe.

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if this broad was actually a real celebrity, she’d not have to ask!

For 1, alot of these rappers be portraying these gangsta images and their azz gone be tested and tried. We already seen what happened to Biggie in L.A… She can talk all that shyt all she want b.u.t i would rather be safe then sorry and catching a case.

2 WORDS : BIGGIE … TUPAC ….

KANDI GIRL THINGS DO GET KRAZY …

Because hip hop artists talk a bunch of shyt that they can’t and have no intention of backing up…..Enter: ENTOURAGE!

b/c matthew is sexy and rappers are garbage that attract the flies~

i been reading the comments and here is mine. yea i do thing the bodyguard thing is over the top.look at andre 3000, he probably got more money than a lot of other rappers and nobody tries him. he mad me realize something years back when i was in the tenth grade and he said on an outkast song with rahwan, i’d rather be a comet than a star.think about it, get yo money and go, or sit in one spot and be a target. majority of them talk ish and wont back it up. a lot of them gone end up like mc hammer.

It’s simple…it’s due to their image. One most want to be seen with over half a million dollars worth of jewelry that either they own or rent. And they like to talk much trash that they really can’t back up…regardless if they are actual convicts or not. Plus, when they’re out boasting about the money they made for their label but claiming as their own, what criminal wouldn’t want to snatch you when you slip up?

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Jun. 29th, 2010
at 6:38 pm
if this broad was actually a real celebrity, she’d not have to ask!

enough said!

you know petty a$$ females always got something negative to say about someone’s life. just take a look at the majority who comment on these blogs…………..pathetic a@@ women.

That’s like asking why the PRESIDENT has so MANY bodyguards-DUHHHH! And even though he’s NOT doing so well (and LOTS of people don’t like him), he better be protected…..

She got a point doe, dats real talk. S**t, if mufuka’s jus be they self, n speak dat true, then you aint even gotta have all dat extra sh*t, especially at the awards show, but still it’s real out hea, b’cuz there are people who really be on grimey mode fa the things they want, and probably could get if they had da chance to get it legally or illegally. Some folk got real enemies, some folk got real problems or issues, n dats just how it go.

I am black, and I don’t why for the life of me black people are so messed up. Except for a few of these comment mist were typical of why we struggle. The bottom line is the reason why rappers act so stuoid is because they are unlearned in finances, and how to carry yourselves when you come into money as so many of people do not, first of all they are not as wealthy as they claim, most are fake, and have no clue how to handle money. It is like a perosn living in the hood who drives a luxury vehicle livivg in the projects or with their mothers, wtf?? Instead of investing, saving, they up in the camera or on bet acting like baffoons, 35 yrs old with five babies,calling each son, not being men. They don’t need no hundred bodyguards, or people following you around. That is just more money you spend trying to impress people who don’t really like you at all. What is wrong with black people????It is no wonder why the world looks at black people the way they do. I am proud of being an black man but am very embarressed when rappers and thugs are glorified, idolized instead of positive images, it sets up back a thoisand years

Kandi, it has a lot to do with the Willie Lynch effect in the black community. Secondly some of the hip-hop celebrities know that the thieves are looking for an opportunities to commit a robbery and then brag how they took what somebody else worked to posses. Finally there is Karma believe me what goes around comes around.

Kandi, Kandi, Kandi, Matthew McConaughey, is not a good example. There are many white actors/entertainers that surround themselves with bodyguards. I’m sure Matthews bodyguard(s) was somewhere in the distance keeping an eye on him.

First things first … I LOVE THAT EFFIN SHIRT OMG WHERE CAN I GET ONE LMAO ( ok composure lol) anyways i been saying that ish for the longest like how is it, halle berry one of the prettiest( supposedly) woman in the world be walking around taking her kid to parks ALONE, doing her shopping Alone and just generally out and about ALONE. But yet beyonce be walking around with a zillion body guards out the ass. But on another note if you notice white music artist dont do that ish, how many times u seen that boy from green day thats married to nicole richie with body guards or whatever, idk kandi but i love that shirt lol

Let’s see – black rappers gunned down – Tupac – Biggie – Big L – Dolla Bill etc. – whyte pothead actors gunned down – 0. You do tha math.

kandi to me it seem like you are usein to much bleach on yo head. cuz that’s a dumb question.its called better safe then sorry.

lol true that guilty_j05 besides Matthew McConaughey hasnt had a hit movie in forever so who really cares bout him..for real Kandi? you my girl..however sista do your homework and find better topics to talk about when you borded..smooches

McConaughey does not draw the attention of the black ghetto trash. The black ghetto trash target those they have the most in common with, such as young black celebs, because they hate themselves.

WHY RAPPERS GOT SO MANY BODY GUARDS? EITHER THEY ARE STRAIGHT PUNKS OR THEY WERE FORMER GANG MEMBERS WITH A HIT OUT ON THEIR HEADS.

i think they use the extra protection mostly because some of them think it’s cute to roam around freely with their entire bank account in their pocket or wearing all this expensive sh*t like the chains and watches, not caring about the fact that it’s like saying, “hello, rob me!” okay, you got money.. we get it. you see a lot of them, especially the younger ones, doing this crap and then wonder why someone attempts to rob them at a gas station.. if you make yourself a target, there will always be what i call “have-nots” trying to get what you do have.

Because those are their sex partners.

Ok Kandi……You are starting to display your true colors….I like you, but I think you are doing too much!

A lot of theses rappers aren’t the thugs they think they are and peeps is right, come in my hood with 50 grand of jewels on and you are robbed!!! not cause u are famous but cause we trying to eat in the hood and you have to earn respect to wear jewels in NY!!! don’t come around me heavy or you leaving light. come to brooklyn and see!!

#1) Many do it to look important, you know the more bodyguards ,people start to say “wow he/she must be important and therefore require lots of extra protection.

#2) Many do it because they are or were currently engaged in certain questionable acitivities that make having a bodyguard a must, because the streets are still checking for them.

#3) Some feel have extra security to feel safe,and protect them from the crazy fans.

Why should a person have to earn your respect to wear jewelry that their money paid for. Sounds like a case of the “havenots, envying the haves”!Get a d^aamn job and buy your own shyt and you wont have to rob people of theirs.

JESUS LOVES, JESUS SAVES, JESUS PROTECTS AND MOST OF AL JESUS BLESSES HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB OF GOD AND THE LION OF JUDAH PRAISE KING JESUS AMEN.

Cuz these M*****Fs are scared. Don’t you realize that in the hood? They thing that because they stole then…they will still from them now..KARMA

Sometimes you need to step back and wonder…why do I need a body guard? GUILTY CONSCIENCE? What goes around comes around..half these MFs probably pulled a gun sometime in their life. Probably on their MOMMA

Need to have them like We need to have draws on…..if we don’t, you have nothing to protect you from a possible ACCIDENT, if you know what I mean….

HATERATION !!! COME ON KANDI….IT’S OBVIOUS U AINT BEEN 2 NO HOOD. REMEMBER TUPAC & BIGGIE ???? BET THEY WISH THEY HAD A COUPLE MORE SECURITY THUGS….IT’S THE PERFECT TIMING U SEE THE MAN SHINING GET UP OFF THOSE GOTDAMN DIAMONDS !!!!!!!!!!!

ANTE UP JACK DEM FOOLS ! KIDNAP DEM FOOLS !!!

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cuz rappers wanna slide thru the hood with mad jewelry n cars, flashing stacks of money like the wolves (male AND female) aint lookin for an eazy meal ticket

plus if you rapping on sum gangster s**t, SOMEBODY is gonna be like hmmm let me try this nigga and see if he folds up or not. you know how it is lol

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celebs without bodyguards are clean…the ones that need guarding have a shady past and have probably done s**t where they need to watch their backs….thats it in a nutshell…

some people with the rudest comments towards kandi are illiterate as hell…damn man, did you go to school at all?…borded is no such word…its called bored…

you people are completely missing the point. Someone star-struck, gangsta or Madonna, will get mad men coming at you, regardless of whether you’re black or white or the act you put on. Do you not remember the Commish’s wife, actress Theresa Saldana??? Huh was she Gangsta? Was she black, trying to show out and therefore deserved to get stabbed up a dozen times? Rebecca Schaeffer ring a bell? Laws against stalking were put in after he death. If you’re in the public light, crazies come out, and you will need security.
And by the way, goons are waiting for faux-celebs to make these kinds of statements, so they know who won’t have coverage and they can maximize their return on stickups!

Having a bodyguard can be a double-edged sword. Although there might be tiny bit of protection in having one (or having several), they can draw attention and lead people in the vicinity to wonder who’s being protected, which can in turn place the celebrity in further jeopardy. However, I do understand the mindset of those who feel that they need a bodyguard. There are quite a lot of delusional and potentially violent people out there who might be especially drawn to celebrities.

As for Matthew McConaughey… I’ve lived in Southern Cali and often visited L.A. It’s not uncommon at all to see celebrities just out there doing their day-to-day thing, whether is jogging, shopping, eating at a restaurant, or whatever. They’re probably more likely to be hassled by TMZ paparazzi than by any threatening individual. The same could be said for certain parts of Manhattan where NYC-based celebrities are often seen carrying out their day-to-day business without getting swarmed by fans or threatened by psychos.

I also agree with what Northside Lolita said about some celebrities wearing all sorts of expensive jewelry while walking the streets. They just render themselves as targets for any potential crook. It’s not a good idea in general, but especially not for a celebrity who might draw extra attention anyway.

because white people dont walk around wit a million dollars worth of platinum and diamonds around there neck and wrist ,and rappers r tired of gettin robbed all the time when r

Grown assed men (rappers) walking around with BIG A$$ED “body gurads” to guard their bodies like Whitney Houston in the BODY GUARD MOVIE.

My guess is like others on here & that is because they where HUGE AMOUNTS of VALUABLE DIAMONDS & PLATINUM around their necks, wrists, & in their mouth & they roll in these EXPENSIVE LUXURY cars all the damn time…they trying not to get JACKED!

DAREALRECKLESS, LMAO!! How can you call the women that comment on these blogs ‘pathetic’, WHEN YOU COMMENT TOO! And at times, 6 or 7 times in a ROW in ONE forum…

When are you going to get tired of calling the kettle black you big ass pot!

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ta keep musty mouth brawds like u off a n!gga..

I rap and I don’t walk around with non of that s**t. If you a real hood nigga you just know how to get around and stay away from situations. Common sense would tell me not to do a show by my self in a hood club, so I would go with just my home boys. Not no rent a gaurds. Niggas make they self look soft with all them gaurds. It’s like you renting the police. And I though we dont like the cops.

KNOWBODY 75 HIT IT ON THE HEAD. N****Z DON’T ATTACK WHITE PEOPLE. THEY TARGET THEIR OWN TOUCH ONE OF THEM WHITE ARTIST IF YA WANT TOO. JEALOUSY IS A POWERFUL DRUG. LORD WILLING I GET ON PROTECTION ME UP I RATHER YOU GOSSIP ABOUT ME BEING SCARED THAN DEAD!!!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/stlgreed

they need them because they know someone from their hood will try to take them out for what they owed them from drug deals gone wrong.

Because they are afraid someone will call them out on the garbage they put on the albums.

It’s all for show then reality/ want people to assume they THAT important, they also assume it’s what others do, the monkey see thing. a false sense of security and want attention, Other than that, people would not make a big deal about them,in addition, to what the others said.

most of these guys walk around looking like a human ATM and someone is looking to make a quick withdraw on their a-s-s-! but if they didn’t wear all of that crap, then nobody would bother you at all. you don’t hear about Dre, will-i-am or wyclef getting jacked like that. they don’t go and visit places where people are known to jacked for just looking wrong and not being famous!

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I live in LA,,And true ALOT of the Superstar Actors/Actresses,,Are always seen by theirsleves..
But here’s my thing,,Kandi has written music basically saying if you don’t have money you ain’t ish..Bills Bills Bills,For Destiny Child,,Scurbs for TLC..Ect..So she’s Kind of the Problem.I mean the music is promoted to young People who are easly influenced so what do you expect.Puff,Big& Lil Kim Lite weight Started that Bullsh*^..Talking About Italian Clothes,shoes,Watches/Cars Ect..Saying the same thing,,If U don’t have this You Ain’t Sh*^.Jay-z Added to it..And Cash Money Put The Stamp On It.And now it’s HIGHTLY Excepted when u cee rap cats frontin about what they have,it also has divided us as a People.Females Don’t even respect hard working Men.So It Is What It Is.So In Turn,Im On The Same ish With women..U Don’t have to be Rich,But U have To Have A Job or Im Not Rolling

Just about every comment made is true. You get back what you throw out there. Now you want to say you need a these bodyguards to protect you from the same people you multilated on your way up. Others are trying to be bigger than what they are. Young people watch them, and they think this is the life. Young peoples minds are still young and not developed. So thats easy.

Ridiculous! First I mourned the mass defection of black men to white women while wholesale abandoning the women who birthed them, protected them, nurtured and gave them their first dose of love and respect – until I realized that most black men as a whole – especially those wealthy and/or famous black men – are very stupid children ashamed of who they are. I admit it still sometimes hurts to see so many empty-headed black men picking up anything white even when they’re accomplished and the dyed blonde on their arm has the character and potential of a dead alley cat – so long as she’s white. Then I remember that black men like that – hating themselves, the women who gave them life, never even notice the beautiful, brave black women who daily face down the world and make it look easy. And it turns my stomach when I look at them. Too stupid to realize the whole world is laughing at them because of their stupidity whether they have $$ or not. The thought of touching a fool like that would make me feel as unclean as he has become. Other races do not so easily trade their very souls for the cultureless greed the white man calls success. Do black men ever wonder how many of his own blood that white woman’s blood has strung up with rope? By that same token he surrounds himself with what evil has taught him he needs to make up for his blackness. And he believes it to be true without question. Foolish, foolish boys with no idea how to be men – no substance, no strength, no character and deathly afraid to be the men they were made to be because something evil 500 years ago saw the beauty and strength in black and became savagely envious and afraid. Afraid it would disappear completely by comparison so it destroyed the beauty in black. After awhile some of us believed it ourselves.

Black men have made a mockery of us in so many ways that even the rich athlete or rapper – is considered a vaudeville, black-faced joke. After they get the gold and the white woman they have no idea what’s supposed to come next.

Tune in next week and catch the latest episodes of T.O. and “Ochocinco” drooling over skanky, dyed-blonde, gold-diggers that they firmly believe are the “women” of their dreams. And they probably are.

I found the interview to be informative and insightful especially the part about economics. In the Black Community for the most part, status is determined by what you’re rolling in, what you’ve got on your face, in your mouth, on your hands, in your pocket and on your back. Oh, and let’s not forget on your feet. It’s out there for all to see. For the most part,our culture in not “long term thinking” or taught to delay gratification, hence the desire to not stay in school and study, or to sacrifice wearing or having the “best ” thing in order to wait for something better. Investing money takes time and discipline. You DONT see the return right away and often times there is risk involved in some investments,which Black folk don’t want to take. As was brought out in the interview if your grandmother wasn’t into investing and saving, she didn’t teach it to mom or dad, and they didn’t teach it to you. Most of these young brothers and sisters are coming into big money for the first time not only in their own lives but the lives of their families and generations. After years of NOT having, and seeing their peers and family members not having, there’s no MODEL available for WAITING. As far as someone being able to “sit them down” and tell them what to do with their money, who’s that person going to be? Mom? Dad? their Broke homies? If they HAVE money and their peers and family don’t , they ALREADY feel they’re doing better. If any advice is to be GIVEN and LISTENED to it would have to come from WITHIN the industry by knowledgeable compassionate professionals, who FORESEE what can happen and does happen and will let them know .

Obviously we don’t know any better, cause they got the money and we don’t, so it’s best we just shut the …

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