Over the last couple of years the word ‘snitching’ has been put on front-street for the world to view. You couldn’t walk down the streets of New York City without witnessing a few people rocking a “Stop Snitching” t-shirt encompassed within a Stop sign. From Camron’s admission on national television, to Michael Vick’s closest friends throwing their multimillion dollar homey under the bus only to lose the majority of his earnings. The truth to the matter is that the issue of ‘snitching’ has been an important aspect within our inner cities for years.

Call it ignorance or an act of loyalty, snitching as an act has received mixed feelings. For those in the hood, resulting to snitching is an ultimate act of disrespect that will never be forgotten. Your tarnished reputation will be magnified for the entire hood to see thus labeling you as rat never to be trusted again as in the case of Alfamega. Formally an artist under TI’s Grand Hustle label, Alfamega was recently exposed as a Federal Informant only to be dropped from the label within the next couple of days. How can someone bounce back from something like this?  Reviving a reputation may be impossible in some cases compelling the accuser to result to acts of violence as a way to prove themselves as someone to be trusted. A never ending circle of stupidity behind a principle that is misconstrued.

Don’t get me wrong, ‘snitching’ is not an act that I condone but if it were to help solve a crime or assist into doing something that would benefit my community, I wouldn’t think twice. But there are some cases where everyone would consider ‘snitching’ as an act of pure “bitch-assness.” The Michael Vick case publicized the act of “bitch-assness” firsthand. Quanis Phillips, Purnell Pearce and Tony Taylor did the unimaginable and ‘snitched’ on their good friend and professional athlete, Michael Vick, who was at the top of his game to eventually lose everything! Now if this isn’t a form of “bitch-assness,” then I don’t know what is!

The term snitching will be a popular debate among the masses whether it is the politically correct thing to do, but being politically correct doesn’t always fit into what people consider as being moral. It all depends on the person and the situation at hand. But when it all comes down to it, no one wants to be considered a rat!

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