It's social media, all of us are exposed to the stupid bullshit teenagers do now.

you can argue that rap has done damage to the public perception of blackpeople

but within the community itself any damage is kinda negligible

Very scary my cousins have to carry a knife too because being black on an estate with opps is dangerous

It’s not only misguided but grossly offensive to downplay centuries of systemic racism, corrupt and incompent local government and a economic system designed to limit social mobility and distill that into “rap made them pick up a gun”

i don’t really wanna go this route bc discourse on this site is terrible, but again it is not always glorification on the artists behalf, white mfs and suburbanites have a big hand in glorification of street culture if we’re gonna be real

Heard this in wale voice

It is the enviorment, the hood, poverty thats the real issue but ignoring the influence of rap culture on children in the hood isnt helpful

It’s disingenuous

Who are you to judge?

If your role models were rappers, and you've made a lot of your choice in life due to being influenced by rappers or rap music...shit any genre really, you may need to get some serious help.

Also people's mental health is way worse nowadays too

I think alot of these kids now have a hard time seperating reality from music. That's the biggest thing.

Someone who also grew up on a lot of rap from the 80s, 90s, 00s, etc who never had a f***in rapper as a role model or major influence in the choices I made in life.

Single parent households do more damage than rap ever could tbh

there’s also a huge issue here with the power and influence of celebrity

This is victim blaming

Dude i said its just a part of it i understand the plight of the black man in america very much dude

1) Unfair capitalism (housing/business loans discrimination)
2) Introduction of crack into inner cities
3) Underfunding to newly desegregated school districts/cities following white flight to suburbs

Just three off the top of my head

Not really it’s quite common

A good amount of the black youth really needs help man

Who was your role model?

They do bro I get it 100% but even before it blew up online niggas was always blowing smoke abt who’s more down, who’s more tough, who selling this that. Humans have always been like this

Dont blame the white kids for this

The issue at hand of course is that we live in a system designed to put us in these positions

That doesn’t change the reality of it though

of all the problems in the black community rap music is the least of it lmao

this is like saying narcocorridos is harming the mexican community

Dude probably blames Michael Jordan over niggas getting killed over shoes