I am not sure if there would be less crime, but maybe a better self image? It also depends on the rap, there is good rap, then bad rap. The rap about selling drugs, killing people, and hitting your women is hardly beneficial. Neither is the blatant sexualization of women either. I would much rather a musician make a point with their music rather than their point being related to beautiful women jumping on the screen. That is not so much a talented musician, but an ingenious marketing scheme. Oh, and the use of the "n" word is ridiculous. Its ok to make millions off of it, but by god, if a white person uses it, thats a hate crime. We need less of this: And more of this:
Oh no! African-american rap has made it to Norway (thanks to two members of the muslim brotherhood): [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRodEC2k0MM"]Dalenbarn - Betongen - YouTube[/ame] muslims in europe are like the blacks in america- in so many ways! I am telling you, all this imported rap is going to lead to more crime in europe, by the muslims. The american blacks are exporting their destructive culture to us. This trash has made its way to Sweden also: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMr3oPdfXs&feature=related"]Looptroop - top dogz - YouTube[/ame]
Oh no!!! There goes the neighborhood! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rloidlFbi4w"]Body Count "There Goes The Neighborhood" - YouTube[/ame] Sigh... the more things change...
Joe, I disagree with your premise that rap pulls people out of poverty, inferring that this is a good circumstance. rap or Hip-Hop promotes problematic living. It is actually the epitome of not licking the wounds, but ingesting the wound and causing it to manifest into a cancer. Hip-Hop does not promote anything on a positive note and encourages evil. I refer to Hip-Hop / Rap as Satanic Verses. I could engage in a deeper discussion of Hip-Hop / Rap and its manifestation but I will not. I will simply state that their is nothing good about Hip-Hop / Rap.
African-American? What is that? I am serious. I once worked with a guy who was from South Africa, and guess what, he is classified as African-American because he immigrated from South Africa to these United States. Guess what else, he was Caucasian/White. So I ask you, what is African-American. When I was growing up, I always referred to myself, my family and other Black people as Black People. My elders also called themselves Black. By the way, I too view Hip-Hop/rap as manifest destructive.
The movies Scarface and the Godfather were far more influential than any rap music. On nearly every rappers wall was a picture of Scarface.
In the fake gansta world, are those movies influential. I refused to see "The Godfather"; "Scarface" was a Hollywood depiction of the criminals that Fidel Castro released to come to the United States. There is nothing that will ever intrigue me about those who are part f the major causation of the destruction of Black people in America. Only criminally minded people have a fixation on crime, ill-gotten gain/wealth, and moral decay of people.
The reality is that gangsta rap, and the popularity of a criminal existence among Black people is supported by those who seek to justify their ill behavior and moral decay. Those who promote and support such obscenities only seek to become "rich" off of the backs of others with evil, so who are the real enemies of Black people? It is these same types who actively seek to portray Black folks in the worst manner possible, so in fact they are the enemy of Black people. White folks no longer have to lynch, red-line, unjustifiably discriminate against, produce negative imagery of black folks, nor even call us n*gger, because those who seek to do such things, now have you amoral degenerates to fill the gap and void. Do you all really introspect, pause, take and step back and examine your behaviors in a realistic sense? I doubt that you do.
As for your madness, have you ever thought that those pseudo-Arabs and "Muslims", also hate Black people to the extent that everything that is negative that comes from the internal enemies of Black they love? Why is that, when in Islam you are to shun ALL degeneracy!