Wonder if animal-abusing rapper DMX thinks he looks just as cool throwing up gang signs while he’s garbed in pink?

In case you haven’t heard, various prisons and jails across the nation have been employing the color pink to not only calm inmates during their stints, but also hopefully lower their area’s re-offense rate.

Sounds a bit oxymoronic to me (I mean, if the jail time is so soothing, what exactly is it that motivates a lower re-offense rate?), but, whatever. The Van Zandt County Criminal Justice Center in Texas, the Dallas County Detention Center in Missouri, and the Jackson County Jail in Iowa have all transitioned to pink in one form or another.

Some believers in color psychology think pink has a calming effect, but DMX (who is currently incarcerated in Arizona’s Maricopa County Jail, a facility that’s been dressing cons in pink for 10 years) feels it’s “ridiculous” and “disrespectful.”

Yeah, it’s better than beating dogs, dude. Deal with it.

Of course, maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on X. He wants to start a TV show and begin preaching, both of which he hopes will help him reach out to others who need help. Could be prison talk, but, let’s hope he’s straightening up.

On to the weekend psychings!

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