Rap is like a big part of the black community now.
And Carrell is aware that success sometimes comes with a price, as shown by the unsolved slayings of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., who were gunned down in drive-by shootings thought to relate to the rivalry between the East and West Coast branches of the rap community. Carrell said he left Baton Rouge out of concern that the attention and cash he had earned since establishing C-Loc Records about four years ago might make him a target. It was that tough, predatory environment, Carrell said, that inspired the name of his rap group. The stuff that we go through, the stuff I'm telling you about the neighborhood, about the city, about how hard it is, about what's going on. That's kinda what we look at it as, a concentration camp.