MTV.com Apr 7 2008 8:01 AM EDT

Gunfire has taken some of the best hip-hop has had to offer, including Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G, Big L and Freaky Tah. It also recently struck down upstarts like Cavlar and wounded rising rappers like Max B. Brooklyn rhyme-spitter St. Laz has responded with his new video for “Starve the Ghetto,” in which he takes the violence in hip-hop to task.

“This entire American culture has been indoctrinated with violence, since the popularity of Western movies which were 100 percent about shooting and killing
[being] worn as a badge of honor,” he explained, “This is why, till this day, gun violence is so glorified. It’s the American way.”

“Nobody who is not signed to one of the major label slave contracts grinds harder than New Industry artists Pottersfield. Led by the top Indy artist in NYC St Laz and surrounded by top flite microphone killers Opium, The Boy Bucka, and Wooden Soulja.”

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