You're oversimplified. I never said Hip Hop wasn't an influence. I even said we were influenced by styles, mannerisms, etc. of rappers. This is not at all the same as getting a gun and killing someone because you heard it in a song. Huge leap from rocking a perm or even fighting in a club to somebody getting murdered and blaming it on music.
And Wayne and a lot of these rappers being bloods is laughable. It's not even the same. You might as well throw dancing Chris Brown into the gang member pool too. What they portray in music and videos is nothing like what those gangs are like in real life. And we can't act like those gangs haven't been huge since before Hip Hop existed. What we see Chris and Lil Wayne doing is a watered down, commercialized version of something that is far more deadlier and violent. And that even goes back to when rappers would throw gang signs in videos and got called out for it. People know the difference between Wayne and a real banger. Even the tats got commercialized because tatted tears meant something and that too got commercialized.
Weed was huge too, but let you tell it, Hip Hop popularized it because Dre dropped The Chronic in spite of the fact that he told us he ain't smoke weed or cess years prior. We had Friday. There was Cypress Hill, but we can act like Hip Hop and Hip Hop based movies influenced it.
again y'all want the influence to be one way but there's nothing in the world more influential than art but that's another topic altogether 
hell nah. you a oldhead through and through
