Yall act like rap doesn't influence teens but it does.
When the whole Blood thing got popular in rap --- guess what all the high school homies started repping during the mid 00s
My nikka came to me like "you think we should join the Bloods for protection" ....I was like "nikka we in East Atlanta, not LA"
Now you could say they woulda joined a gang anyways --- but they specifically got interested in the Bloods because of cats like Lil Wayne, Gucci, Dipset, etc.
The music we listened to influenced these nikkas a lot and I was one of a few nikkas who peeped it even back then at our age.
This story may be false but it happens.
I don't know why people deny that music can be very influencing to kids.