you got ethered so please delete this dumbass thread and delete your dumbass account you f***ing moron

It defintely made thing worse

Theres literally no argument against that statement

Drill rap isnt making dangerous places worse, its destabilizing relatively safe black communities

drill aint a genre, leave it to the music sxn to make it so, drill is a lifestyle

thats why yall dont like it, ktt intolerable to anylife they not living

Although I don't think the premise of this thread - which is that music is the cause of violence on the streets - has much merit.

I do think there's some obvious truth to this:

And I know they’ll be people that will say “DOnT BLamE tHe ARt” but that doesn’t apply anymore in this era, black men are legit dying off diss records cuz each side wanted to get more disrespectful.

But this has more to do with the fact that making music has become more accessible than ever, all you really need is FL. And (not to sound like a dusthead because I listen to it myself, but let's be real) combine that with the standards for technical skills in rap being lower than before, so if you're from the streets there's no real barrier to entry to make music like there was before. Add to that a culture of (mostly suburban middle class white kids) living through artists who portray and more often now actually living the street life (shoutout DJ Akademiks and r/Chiraqology), you have a feedback loop which encourages this violent behavior as @op said. And now you even have drill rappers in the Netherlands getting killed for disses on songs, as funny as that probably sounds to some people on this site.

But I wouldn't say that the music is something separate which causes this, I think in a very real sense the streets merged with music and these diss songs are now just another medium for street POLITRICKS.

Nah, lack of two parent households ruined the black community.

If you remove race and income, single parent households are the most common predictor of future incarceration

It was government assistance that started it. That was first attack on the black man, our community was doing good in the 60s. Most black women replaced black men because they didn’t need help financially from a man. Then it was a snowball effect with the Ronald Regan era in the 80s.

Idk, I just imagine guys in suits safe in a high rise somewhere deciding that a song about shooting a black mans hair off is exactly what they’re looking for. But then the same rapper gets shot in real life, and they probably just turn the other way.

I’m not saying the music causes violence, but i think it could play a part in perpetuating it. or maybe I’m getting old.

And crime overall back then was way higher

The poor material conditions afflicting large swathes of the black community have been systematically reinforced by social and economic decision making from all levels of government since the inception of the country so thats the main cause of the continuing struggle we face in the year 2021, as many people have said itt already.

However looking within the confines of the black community street rap is something that definitely propagates, glorifies and reinforces some of the psychological negativity that comes from those poor conditions. I think its a very powerful soft companion to hard economic instability in the way that it promotes certain lifestyles that are antithetical to stability within the community, specifically fiscal competition(having more/the most money) vs fiscal cooperation and toxic behavior towards women.

Overall although the scale of the influence is definitely debatable it can't be ignored the power of subtly wrapping negativity in the form of entertainment could hold on a community thats been embattled from all sides for hundreds of years.

i can’t disagree with this tbh

we figured op would put it together but here we are 9 pages of them ignoring the point

Been around since Gangsta Rap back in the days.

some of yall itt

I think there’s a lot of nuance to these conversations but people are operating on extremes in their opinions especially considering the amount of emotions a topic like this can bring

Bill O Riley Fox News ass thread

Where do yall get this s***

a lot will say “oh, it’s always been like this…” but i can recall that era from 2009 to 2014 where street rap was an afterthought…it seemed like things were headed towards a more positive, pesudo conscious route…

so the fact that street rap has made the resurgence it did, especially in such an aggression form with the drill music and the explicit use of hard d**** is what makes it an issue

No that's stupid

newrepublic.com/article/136200/racist-roots-welfare-reform

theblackwallsttimes.com/2017/07/20/black-family-structure-in-decline-since-the-1960s-the-home-effect

It’s more than one singular thing and rarely as simple as removing that one thing to solve the problem, but it is a large part of it, yeah.