perhaps we have too many damn guns.
Fam what are you even talking aboutplay stupid.
yall think anytime a black person get shot it's "hiphop" or "a rapper made them get shot".
these issues were here before, and they will be here after hiphop.
Let me try this a different way….what’s your solution to suicide rates going up? Ban razors? Eliminate rope?
Large scale problems are fixed by addressing root causes.
And yea ‘these issues have already existed’, but you need to look up and realize these are a whole NEW set of issues. Nggas ain’t only dyin bc of poverty, or territory, or crack rocks.
Now, nggas are dying over clout and ego, image. Rap is the most powerful messaging in the world, and that messaging now is an overall disregard of life and bravado. There are other reasons TOO, but ‘rap shyt’ is now 100% it’s own category on top of that