Hip-hop and downtown

"I listen to hip-hop and I am not a violent person. Please leave music out of this. It could be four or five hundred Girl Scouts listening to nursery rhymes and smashing bottles that they brought from home to shiv somebody...it doesn't matter what they're listening to, you just sound racist when you say that."

-Ethan Lund of the Flatiron Tavern on King street responding to other King Street area residents complaining that violence on King Street is caused by Club Majestic playing hip-hop music.

Lund is right. The vast majority of the people that go to Club Majestic to listen to hip-hop aren't causing problems. The wrong people end up at numerous bars in town but no one seems to link the music being played in the bar to violence.

In fact, the weekend before last weekend there was a stabbing outside of the Kollege Klub on Lake Street (near State Street).

No word yet on whether or not local residents are going to chase the jukebox from the Kollege Klub out of town.