The bloodthirsty social media hip-hop tabloid ecosystem and the nature of the attention economy have turned the trials and tribulations of rappers into reality TV, but it hit another level in the last few weeks as the genre erupted into a spree of stupid violence. In one case, Pooh Shiesty , stuck in a go-nowhere contract with Gucci Mane ’s 1017 Records, allegedly came up with a plan that had to have been workshopped with Highest 2 Lowest ’s Yung Felon : kidnap Gucci in Dallas and force him to sign over the rights at gunpoint. The incident put Pooh back in jail and left Gucci trying to preserve his tough-guy image with “ Crash Dummy ,” an embarrassingly corny recap of the event: “I thought it was a business meeting, but it was a set-up.” Then, in Florida, a brawl broke out between the crews of Lil Tjay and Offset , supposedly over a gambling debt, which ended with Offset hospitalized with a bullet wound and Tjay doing a surreal post-jail interview that felt like a Real Housewives confessional.  The…