First off, I JUST learned Rush Limbaugh passed away. Rest in a whole bucket of piss. He don't got no kids and most of his loved ones are old as fuck too... they can handle it.
@DOS_patos is just trying a prove a point for argument's sake, but he's not 100% wrong... at least when it comes to choosing when to cross the line. We forget this is rap, nothing is off the table. We done heard 9/11 bars, Michael Jackson bars, Whitney Houston bars, school shooting bars, Aaliyah bars... you name it. However, there's still standards of respect that have been and should be upheld. In battle rap, fights start cuz someone says "suck my [REDACTED]". Math and Dizaster are enemies to this day over an adlib in a battle that they both took literally. It's not like either of them meant what they said, or that someone actually wants another man to "suck their [REDACTED]". But in the heat of the moment, if you're standing in front of a person and you cross that line, that person has every right to react how they feel based on their moral code... and no new age de-escalation tactic can stop them.
As per the Meek/Kobe thing, I'm not 100% hung up over just the Kobe situation. That day, aside from my personal reasons, was one of the worst days in human history... and Kobe didn't have to be there for that. 3 whole families got wiped out in an accident that could've been avoided. Nobody got shot, nobody was influenced, not one person "had it coming". That's not to say Kobe passing is downplayed by anything else or vice versa. But the situation is way too sensitive and complex to trivialize in a gun bar. Personally I wasn't too upset at the line... if I hear the whole song in context and he's speaking on the instinct that kicks in during your last moments of life when death is literally a few feet away and you're OK with dying but you're willing to take some enemies with you then I'll see why he said it. However, let me reiterate... THIS NIGGA GOT BITCHED OUT BY A FEDERAL INFORMANT WITH RAINBOW HAIR. ON CAMERA. All that rah rah shoot em up shit is out the window.