I don't think it's a question that has an easy answer. A good example would be something like drill rap coming out of Chicago, which has given economic opportunity to heavily apathetic youth who come from crippling economic anxiety, from wanton violence, and gain clout via the pile of dead bodies that this city has produced for decades. Along the way, the music has appeal to a good amount of people. And all this within a capitalist structure that is the root cause of all that ailed these kids to begin with, but which also presents them with a faustian bargain, so that they might get out and give their families a piece of the cursed pie.
Yeah drill rappers are almost always already involved in gang activity well before they start rapping. If they’re gonna be caught in that cycle of violence anyway they might as well try and make something of it so they can hopefully escape it eventually
I don't think it's a question that has an easy answer. A good example would be something like drill rap coming out of Chicago, which has given economic opportunity to heavily apathetic youth who come from crippling economic anxiety, from wanton violence, and gain clout via the pile of dead bodies that this city has produced for decades. Along the way, the music has appeal to a good amount of people. And all this within a capitalist structure that is the root cause of all that ailed these kids to begin with, but which also presents them with a faustian bargain, so that they might get out and give their families a piece of the cursed pie.
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Yeah drill rappers are almost always already involved in gang activity well before they start rapping. If they’re gonna be caught in that cycle of violence anyway they might as well try and make something of it so they can hopefully escape it eventually