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

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A LOT. More than people realize.

You know where a lot of the racism and stereotypes come from? This rap culture and the violence and crime that goes along with it.

Yes whites were bad about racism back in the 50's, but if the rap culture would have never taken foothold, things might be a lot different today.

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I think its as simple as they turned a really bad environment/culture with problems that should have been acknowledged and addressed, and instead glorified the environment and turned a bunch of young blacks into people who wanted to make it big as a rapper or professional athlete instead of any other way. Ultimately when they achieved neither music or athletic stardom they turned to gangs and drug dealing.