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Rap does suck. At least these days. Extreme lack of talented artist.
Most of my friends, many of whom are also black, are actually straight metal. Nice and visceral in a way that makes you need to clean off your goggles afterwards. Me, I like techno.
The negative image comes from impressionable youths that get involved in the wrong things. Plus, there's a huge amount of group-thought that occurs in some areas. This is why folks go into debt buying expensive clothes and cars. They care too much about what the other members of their community thinks. It's all about Mookey (Yes, I actually knew somebody with this name...Geez) impressing some people on the block with his new ride and fly gear.
It's not about Mookey being a successful businessman, voting and paying taxes.
A smart person would buy a house on land instead of a Lexus. That's how I was raised. That's what MY father did. He bought land in four locations, in three states.
But you can't drive a five acre plot of land with a house on it around town, can you? So, this other section of the black community would rather get the lexus, which is not smart.
This type of thinking is destructive to my people as a whole. It overshadows some of the intelligent things people in my community had/will do/done in the past, present or future.