I’ve seen,visited and even lived with some of my poorer kinfolk to understand some s*** about black poverty

Hahahahaha 1/1000 niggas made it ! rap is definitely not destructive!!!! Lets go. So now how many of his niggas died or in jail, while he told his story of a “wise crack street hustler” on his fist five albums?

Got damn yall have me sounding like fox news

@op needs to drop a hand pic before i take this thread seriously

The perception that niggas who grew up in bad areas don't have internet or don't engage in "non-hood" activities or hobbies is strong

That's nuts

There is many examples and thousands more that will never have their story told

Needs to be censored imo thats a star

A big disclaimer

*This rap s*** isnt real nigga s*** you will die or end up in jail if you do this s****

before every video imo

Art comes from reality, but saying art doesn't effect reality is naive.

If art doesn't effect reality, artist shouldn't even try sending a message.

Its sad someone like Nipsey was spreading positive influence in their community and some stupid f***ing criminal had to take him out

We lost a real, important figure

rap music is regressive to the black community the same way r rated films and violent video games are regressive to the youth

white person and scene black kid take lmao .

let’s work on the living conditions not f***ing music

This is why you're dumb as s***

Niggas are rapping what they are living

Gang violence is a product of the environment

There's beef in street s*** way before a f***ing song comes out

Like nigga what the f*** are you talking about

this this this and always this

S*** crazy lmao

also this x50, expression isn’t always glorification, especially when it’s presented cautiously a la “the wire” or pac’s discography

Niggas are making music about opps that they kill, opps that they know got killed, how they spin the block,

and are real life gang members and s***.

To act like Music is completely harmless in this scenario makes no sense. Come on y'all.

That's not the same tho

Rapping about “smoking dead opps, gradmas crying, shootings and death” with pop samples in the back and dancing and cigars??? Interesting

This

this is a cop out show me a correlation

That's the truth

i’m not mad at this take tho i understand the frustration and i’m def not saying there’s not a point to be made

at the same time we gotta be real and acknowledge niggas get paid to act a fool. rap a lot of niggas meal tickets and the culture is dictated by old label niggas and suburbanite consumers