If gangster rap disappeared tomorrow would the conditions that created it disappear?

Both, it's definitely glorifying it and just about anything can push a person over the edge which includes music/gangsta rap.

npc ass thread

If I call you a hoe, ain’t nothing to it———Gangsta Rap made me do it

Are you a baby? Are you a child? Art isn't a contagion that alters your behavior on a whim. If so, I'd be more worried about the first person shooter video games. The ones children actually play. They're way more popular than "gangster rap" in 2023 with a far more impressionable audience.

Violent art comes out of violent times. The toothpaste doesn't go back in the bottle. You guys are ignorant in general and thinking you're an authority on the social sciences or public policy is an extension of that. The biggest decider of a child's life is the zip code they are born in.

Future saw that he directly influenced Juice WRLD to start doing hard d****, had a conscience for 2 minutes and then went right back to making songs about d****

Love this example

Turns out growing up in Chicago is a bigger factor than your media diet! Who knew

Everyone. Everyone knew that.

I want to respond to this, but this is a logical fallacy, bringing up an emotionally charged by bringing up soultions that OP never mentioned or cosigned as a means to shut down the conversation of "does the media influence us" which yea, it does on a very subliminal state.

Chill fam

Juice WRLD legit told Future he influenced him to get into lean as a teenager when he finally met Future for the first time

Make it easier for people in the inner city to better themselves and own a home without turning to the streets

People in places like NYC get priced out of welfare programs making $20k of legal money and still can’t afford s*** until they crack 6 figures

Of course,especially now,being a rapper is right next to p***stars on my totem pole at this point.

Whose you guys? You’re making a crazy amount of assumptions and you’re reaching like crazy to try to prove me wrong

Stop it. You’re confusing yourself. People get influenced in good and bad ways by entertainment. Yeah real life influenced the entertainment but it works both ways

Even if initially life influenced the art the point is people do get influenced by art

Everyone else seems to understand so I’m not gonna respond anymore.

yea

Wait so you're telling me despite being raised how childless KTT conservatives wanted

He experimented with d**** as a teenager?

Unheard of. Rap is to blame. No fan of rock music would ever have done that. A successful artist struggling with addiction? Also just a rap thing. Doesn't happen in any other field.

Young black men are more likely to die or get locked up in general in this country. That's been true long before they started making money rhyming words together.

The one other outlet they are presented with is sports and look at all the clean, milquetoast athletes they have to look up to. Is that changing their material conditions? Maybe if they're a top percentile athlete and a dozen other variables line up

Calm down fam

I was giving a very reductionist take on it, pen that didn't look at all the facts but still looked at one of the facts which was a factual link between the two people

Calm down & have a nice day

I'm not saying rap is worse than any other genre or more impactful than socioeconomic factors for influencing folks, I'm not your enemy.

If you actually cared about dead or locked up black kids you wouldn't sound like a DJ Akademiks video from 2013.

alright have a good day fam

Rap in these days and times is so negative and vulgar,it literally adds nothing of value to the youth and culture as a whole. And the internet/social media made the negativity worse cause now,you can get your debauchery fix at an assembly line paced rate. You can say "its up to the parents and the environment you live in" but s*** is getting thrown at the wall at a persistent pace now.

Me and my friends/fam been saying this but,Rap is pretty much an advertisement for private prisons at this point. Labels and private prisons have to be working together.

sure the same way American psycho and fight club have dudes thinking there Patrick Bateman and tyler durden

they literally dont

blaming the art instead of the material conditions which the art is a reflection of is prime bootlicker s***

Did the man that invented college go to college?