Don't do d****

it's definitely a problem and anyone acting like it isn't is being willfully ignorant. sure getting rid of it wouldn't solve gang violence as a whole but all this culture of drill music deeeefinitely influencing people. even white kids in suburbs tryna be on some gang s*** lol

8 pages of cringe

y’all was giggling and celebrating and bumping FDT as if Biden is going to improve the conditions in neighborhoods that street culture happens.

People only care about street problems when it starts effecting people outside the streets.

People should care about street problems before that imo. Do something to make a difference in those areas and maybe it will be reflective in the music

No not just the way they consume, the way they behave

well yeah totally! these corporations are actively trying to change human behavior, i wouldnt doubt that record labels actively want society to be like this because it only means more money for them

imagine not being jewish and commenting on the holocaust

Too much dip.. not enough chips.
Not enough nuance. No context. For this to have been successful the OP would have had to spend more time executing the premise. He’d have to have some understanding of street culture itself.. what feeds it, what is the allure that causes such a visceral effect on its adolescent users. It’s a spectrum.. I see it as a double edged sword. A lot of the debauchery revered in “street music culture” is expressed in pain, hindsight and regret and this is how the context of the way ‘violence’ is expressed matters.. It could be a healing tool for those fighting the underbelly of our community. HOWEVER, most of the music relishes inside that s***. I dare you to print out a lot of their lyrics and just read them. sometimes it’s borderline mania. Hurting and causing pain to others becomes excitement; the depravity causes a dopamine effect. Music can be a powerful catalyst.. I seen it in both of my nephews.. s***s scary to see them lil niggas transform. A lot of you aren’t ready to have this conversation. Most of you are just wide-eyed onlookers. Staring in amazement on the other side of the glass. Ya’ll annoy me the most.

Ya they should follow NLE Choppa’s footsteps

s***s just like crime n punishment

Dostoevsky literally broke this s*** down to a T

They 100% glorifying it. There’s a difference between let’s say GKMC and Drill music my g

S*** bangs tho that’s the problem

u gotta realize that people are drawn to the game cause of power. if you come from the gutter and feel like u have no control over ur life it comes to the point where u see those who have power over their lives and others and it gives u a single minded obsession to reclaim your life from the system. for a lotta kids its just about finally getting something they never felt they had: self-determination. cool. i can get money now. i aint have that. i got respect now. i aint have that. i got b****es now. i aint have that. and if you get caught up too young it sinks its teeth into you and becomes an addiction.

whats harder to give up, dealing or using?

thats not to say people dont figure it out in other ways cause they do, but the street life is the most obvious and the most immediate. and when ur already sorta caught up cause of friends / family it becomes even more magnetic.

I agree

and once u get a taste of blood for the first time my g...

that book is perfect insight of why folk commit crimes. should be part of every school's curriculum.

facts
people commit crimes for the rush off strength its that simple

warrior instincts are hard wired into humans. street life is just an expression of that nature

anyway, street culture is a byproduct of-- you guessed it-- the streets. folk are forced or felt as if they are forced to commit crimes because of the environment that surrounds them. if they commit crimes, they believe that they'll gain power in an environment that will leave them for dead. the tangible consequences are secondhand to them, because they're at rock-bottom and have nothing to lose in the first place.

if you want to stop the violence, you need to go at the source-- economic poverty, dismal education, failing infrastructure, lack of medical access (both mental and physical), weak social programs, and on and on.

fix peoples survival needs and well stop seeing people act out of their base instincts
basic housing food education etc...