Indeed. You'll always find someone ready to profit off of it. But Americans buy what they feel comfortable with. Black criminality has always been a top seller since Reconstruction and the start of the first census.
Oh yeah, the people who support these images disgust me.
Just like how Pac was only known as a fukking gangster rapper,.
I think the real problem is that it becomes systemic, and you put these icons out there (hip-hop stars talking guns, drugs etc) and the young generation who relates to them then begins to think that's cool.
That's a whole other discussion though, it's part of the reason why I fukking hate the state of hip-hop in 2012. It's a capitalist machine and sends the worst fukking message possible.
That new Saigon album is dope though
