Literally a short and sweet masterclass of a question regarding the violence in rap lyrics, that is still very relevant to this day.

It makes me wonder, as long as rap exists, does that mean that poverty and the problems that come with economic disparity will exist as well?

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As long as b****es niggas and hoes exist was a horrible way to end an otherwise great speech lmao

Robin Thicke jumpscare

This is the most basic rebuttal and is not clever. “Oh we’re just rapping about what we saw growing up” that’s why they’ve killed 150 people and sold kilos of coke in their records right?

That’s why 50 cent who didn’t drink or smoke at the time was rapping about being high all the time and sipping a bottle full of Bub

Sure some do rap about what they saw and the negative aspects of it. But to act like the vast majority of these rappers aren’t trying to make gangsta s*** look cool is stupid

Almost as stupid as thinking music doesn’t influence people to do dumb s***, just like how music inspires and motivates, it also influences negatively.

so according to that logic all actors portraying criminals are to blame too? lock up Al Pacino then, no more movies about the mafia, gangsters, cartels, corrupt politicians, murders

oh also lets start banning video games too

and books

and theatre plays

if the people can't separate between art and real life, nobody is to blame but them
its the parents responsibility to teach kids basic morals, if you can't do that don't have kids

Games plays whatever all of it can influence people to do good or bad things

People act like saying games makes some ppl do bad things is the dumbest thing ever when it’s common sense

Also it’s pretty much the person who does the negative things fault. If you’re grown and get influenced to sell d**** cos of music or kill cos of a game then of course that’s on you

It gets a lil tricky when it comes to kids. Also an adult can be influenced and not even know it so that’s tricky too

that's what im saying

every art form can influence people to do bad things, should we blame the artists now for people not distinguishing?

I didn’t say or imply we should blame the artists. I’m just saying these artists act like their music doesn’t influence anyone negatively

hipster response that assumes all kids have parents that give a f***, parents that have time to watch everything their kids consume while also supporting a household with limited education to not be able to be home by 5-6 lol, or if a kid even has parents at all/could have d*** addict parents. Lol f*** all the kids who don’t have perfect parents

Al Pacino also don’t say “this ain’t no actor cap Nigga. I ain’t one of these Hollywood niggas” lmao y’all are ridiculous. There’s a whole culture that exists with rap to where it’s an overlap with how you’re supposed to act in real life that don’t really exist with cowboy/mob movies or call of duty but you niggas already know this