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Atlanta hip-hop community reacts to Ferguson decision

Lecrae will play a sold-out Tabernacle.
Lecrae will play a sold-out Tabernacle.
By Melissa Ruggieri
Nov 24, 2014
#7 of #26. PLEASE KEEP IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER FOR THE CONTINUITY OF THE GALLERY. Christian hip-hop artist and Atlanta resident Lecrae energized the sold out Tabernacle Friday night on his Anomaly tour. Andy Mineo opened up the show in front of an extremely diverse and fascinating crowd that featured youngsters all the way up to seniors of all demographics. Robb D. Cohen/RobbsPhotos.com Lecrae was among the Atlanta hip-hop artists expressing thoughts about Ferguson online. Photo: Robb
#7 of #26. PLEASE KEEP IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER FOR THE CONTINUITY OF THE GALLERY. Christian hip-hop artist and Atlanta resident Lecrae energized the sold out Tabernacle Friday night on his Anomaly tour. Andy Mineo opened up the show in front of an extremely diverse and fascinating crowd that featured youngsters all the way up to seniors of all demographics. Robb D. Cohen/RobbsPhotos.com Lecrae was among the Atlanta hip-hop artists expressing thoughts about Ferguson online. Photo: Robb

The grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown predictably kept Twitter blazing Monday night.

Many in the Atlanta rap community -- including those such as Rick Ross and Ne-To who live here -- took to the social media outlet to express their thoughts (language warning in some of them).

Atlanta's Killer Mike, who is in the duo Run the Jewels with El-P, performed in St. Louis last night with his rap partner after the grand jury news was announced and gave a speech to the crowd.

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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