He was making references to neighborhoods that I know. I downloaded the tape at school and bumped it on my way home from work and was hooked. 2!" I had to check Young Moose's mixtape, "Out the Mud 2," released for free download in June. "Who ya'll listening to? Music wise?" I asked a class full of middle schoolers. "I'm telling you Watkins," he said, "ask anybody from anywhere DDH, projects, new homes, Westside or wadevea! Moose! Moose is that! He better than Boosie, Jeezy, everybody! Moose dummy!" Young Moose was brought to me by a seventh grader named Nick I met while working at Friendship Academy, a charter school in the Canton area. Those in power are most comfortable when attacking the poor and underrepresented, and they don't want impoverished black kids to flourish in anything, especially the arts. It does not mean that it is a documentary or should be used as evidence. I wasn't saying that his video should count as probable cause, but was making the same point that Moose made: His music, in representing the people where he comes from, is authentic. My words, about the authenticity of Baltimore music, didn't come across the way I intended them. When The Sun wrote a piece about Moose, Justin Fenton, one of the story's writers, asked me to comment. Moose and I are both storytellers who are lucky enough to deliver the human side of our Baltimore to the world. Cops never fucked with David Simon while he was filming "the Wire" and dudes who rock out at The Crown perform heroin ballets weekly, but Moose can't do the same? Martin Scorsese can but Moose can't? Can you not be an artist if you've dealt heroin? If you're a felon? If you've owned guns? So now being black and from the ghetto exempts you from artistic expression? To many people, what Moose does isn't art at all, though it's just evidence. The video for 'Posted' depicts what goes on in any impoverished Baltimore neighborhood with the cinematic flair of hood flicks like "Paid In Full." It's thoughtfully shot and executed and feels more like a short film than just another rap video. A YouTube description for 'Posted' notes that the video was uploaded on Dec. After posting bail the day of the show, he was immediately brought in on a probation charge again, stemming partly from music videos, which Moose's lawyer Richard Woods says were recorded long before Moose was on probation.
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