re: How much do you think rap music/hip-hop hurt the culture of American Blacks?

Glorifying prison culture and every single destructive social pathology may have been a bad strategy . Especially when combined with the dumbed down music itself. Losing the song structure in lieu of just a repeated groove, the degradation of the actual musicianship , tossing aside the elegance of 60s and 70s soul, the ridiculous greatness of funk , etc. It sad for the people who consume it and it’s sad that we’ve gone from Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway, EW&F , The Commodores, etc to this crap. It’s grape flavored bubblegum for low IQ dullards.