Lady Jane DJ loves hip hop because of all the condenced bass, it's nasty lyrics, and the DJing most of all. Those are just a few things that I like about Hip Hop. Which brings me to believe that other people do too. I know plenty of loving people that love hip hop for all the good times that the music brings.

Excerpt:"Thursday, April 20, 2006

Donna Terek / Detroit News

Deshaun Holton, the Metro Detroit rapper known as Proof, was shot and killed after reportedly shooting another Detroit night club patron who later died.

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Hip-hop takes the rap in Proof's death

Don't worship culture

Thank you for finally pointing out the obvious fact that Deshaun "Proof" Holton is not deserving of hero worship ("Don't make a hero of slain rapper," April 13). The media seem to continually make apologies for "rap culture," a movement which blatantly promotes violence and drug trafficking (Feb. 12 front page, "Rap reality?"). Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was quoted in The News defending rap culture for its "clothing, design, poetry and coffee shops." We even host an annual "hip-hop summit" to promote the rap culture.

Michael Buckley
Grosse Pointe Park

Coverage of rapper inflated

The News sure had a lot of coverage about the death of Proof, someone most of its readers never heard of before. I thought maybe the pope had died.

D. A. William
Dearborn Heights

'Addition by subtraction'

The death of another rapper is addition by subtraction for society. Rappers tend to glorify rape, domestic violence, murder and drugs. These entertainers seem to love this type of lifestyle, despite the fact that they make enough money to avoid these situations.

Joseph Stewart
Dearborn"

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