Hip Hop is about telling stories. Some of them are violent. Some of them are about selling drugs. Some of them are about social activism. Some of them are for entertainment, some of them are for change. And a lot of them are too make money.
So your gunna blame all of hip hop for the terrors in the poorest inner city areas. I'm sorry to tell you but people have been selling drugs before they raped about it. People have been killing eachother before they rapped about it. So whose fault is it? The people who commited the crimes or the people that made people aware about them.
I think hip hop, whether violent, terrible, or perfect, is important because people can relate to it.
Theres a difference between saying I'm in a gang and join a gang. Hip hop isn't advocating the drug-selling, killer lifestyle its re-stating it and ultimately telling inner-city youth, 'your not alone, I was even worse than you, and look where I made it, and it wasn't by selling dope"
And hell, everyone blames rap. Have you ever listened to rock and roll before? - Its all about drugs: lucy in the sky with diamonds, hotel california, hahahaha - all drugs, the whole hippy thing is alllllll drugs. And the rest is about death, destruction, and slitting your wrists. Country is the most depressing and hopeless shit ever. Its like 'omg he just said gun.....and he rhymed it with fun!!!!"
I agree that little immature kids shouldn't be listening to it just like they shouldn't be watching violent movies because young young kids immitate without understanding fully whats happening.
And theres so much violence on tv and movies so blame that too. If your not gunna support hip hop, than don't watch/support scarface or any R movie cause those are all more violent and in picture.
And lastly I leave you with a quote
"you can take the kid out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the kid"
