There's no question about this, especially as it relates to lean specifically. The lionshare of the blame, in my opinion for the widespread popularization of lean belongs to Lil Wayne and with a dishonorable mention of Future in second place.
Rap’s Contribution to Violence Debate Thread
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There's no question about this, especially as it relates to lean specifically. The lionshare of the blame, in my opinion for the widespread popularization of lean belongs to Lil Wayne and with a dishonorable mention of Future in second place.
It’s an echo. Music is just repeating what’s happening.
You’re basically claiming that there would be less prescription drugs abuse if rap didn’t exist which is false
Nore shot a dude after seeing Tupac's character in Juice. Saigon said he shot people and committed violent crimes cuz of Mobb Deep and Onyx. I've seen dudes get beat bloody at an M.O.P. show. You're lying to yourself if you don't think kids are influenced by this shyt.
nightpupil
ElderzInMegaHallz
Music is not the problem for drugs either. Pain, depression, and curiosity, poverty, has more to do with that. How do you want to fix the world by having a war on drugs, that shyt dont work cus thats just a symptom. You motherfukkers want to destroy the world but talk all this self-righteous shyt and don't even know you stand or where to start. How about serving God first my friends...
trillanova
The Truth
What else is in the music? Some people have a vested interest/investment in the detriment and degeneracy of the culture to fortify and streamline the genocide of a certain group of people. It's very clear, although it is not meant to be seen that way when partaking. It has trickle down effects that are very reliable for those that control the outcomes of the inputs that they acquire. This is a business that starts with music and ends in a certain percentage of destruction that corrupts a group that would be advantageous to the benefit of another. There's bigger business built off of desensitizing and hypnotizing the youth of a certain group to subliminally self destruct. There's nothing that leads back to you, and you can just blame it on the ills of society over and over again, while in the backround, there are groups deliberately constructing the dysfunction through the entertainment faction and other supporting mediums.
There’s millions of more people that watched those movies and have never ever committed a crime.
This is and always has been faulty logic and a fallacy
KingTut
Green diamonds like a dill pickle
People bringing up crime stats from the 70s-80s and then saying "SEE!!! Crime dropped in the 90s when gangsta rap was at it's peak!!!" 
Conveniently ignoring the context of the crime bill and war on drugs that locked up large numbers of black men and took them off the streets for decades during that time period.
Conveniently ignoring the context of the crime bill and war on drugs that locked up large numbers of black men and took them off the streets for decades during that time period.
nightpupil
ElderzInMegaHallz
bro, you don't get there is nothing without God, you just want to destroy everything. You are the ultimate hypocrite if we are keeping it a buck. You don't want to change anything you just want to save your ass. There's a price to pay with aligning yourself with satan.
Those are just two examples of famous rappers committing crime cuz of rap. How many regular people have done the same shyt? When The Lox dropped their last album a dude called into Kay Slay and said he caught a body to their last album and he's about to catch a new one to this album. I personally know people that have done some dumb shyt cuz their fav rapper was into it.
nightpupil
ElderzInMegaHallz
/\ you probably think we should stop scary movies and because people in parallel universes are dying. lol.
Theres a way to go about this and i'm sorry to say your ways are not the truth..
Theres a way to go about this and i'm sorry to say your ways are not the truth..
People bringing up crime stats from the 70s-80s and then saying "SEE!!! Crime dropped in the 90s when gangsta rap was at it's peak!!!"
Conveniently ignoring the context of the crime bill and war on drugs that locked up large numbers of black men and took them off the streets for decades during that time period.
The History of Mass Incarceration
From Alexis de Tocqueville to Ronald Reagan, the forces that have shaped the current state of our prison system.
critical_temp
All Star
"I respect the shooter" 
Brandsdale
Big Yella
we can have this discussion once drill rap is abolished
I'm not going back and forth with Black people about whether or not content that is obviously anti-Black, is anti-Black.
At this point it makes more sense to let the content do the talking.
Here's a brother claiming to be a member of Aryan Nation to illustrate how much he "doesn't fukk with n*ggers" he even adlibs the bar by yelling "KKK"
But we have to pretend that this isn't anti-Black
You a clown and anybody that agrees with you is a clown.
You keep going around with these clear tongue and cheek PUNCHLINES. Metaphors. Examples of black language arts and trying to make these small jokes evidence for Anit blackness from our ENTIRE CULTURE AND ART.
You are brainwashed by crackers.
Remember when Hip Hop went jiggy and there was a huge backlash against it? This was after the murders of Biggie and Pac. People crowned and dismissed that era because it was party, floss, and excess and less grimey than the mid '90's.
It's like you can't win either way. The Jiggy era was viewed negatively because it was super commercial, mainstream music that was bubbly and fun. Then when artists make something that's darker or violent, it gets blamed for turning the youth into murderers.
It's like you can't win either way. The Jiggy era was viewed negatively because it was super commercial, mainstream music that was bubbly and fun. Then when artists make something that's darker or violent, it gets blamed for turning the youth into murderers.