re: Has anybody watched Katrina Babies documentary on HBO Max?

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why could i grow up listening to true gangster rap and not go out and kill people?

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I've been supressin my inner hood rat since 2nd grade at JW Faulk. It's a struggle. Each time I pay my mortgage, I just wanna do a drive by.

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And rap helps create this culture but for some reason most of yall on here don’t want to believe it

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you're correct about rap helping create this culture but i don't think most people here disagree

i find gang and organized crime stuff very interesting (and also listen to some rap) so i occasionally will watch some youtube videos or look at an instagram account about this stuff. rappers like nba youngboy, lil durk, young thug, and pop smoke absolutely, 100% influence a lot of kids. personally, i think the "dissing the dead" trend in rap is a big factor in the increase in violence over the last couple years

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Corporations came in built houses.

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Right. They tried to invest in the area to make it actually livable for normal people.

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Same shite happens in other cities but in a different form.

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Name one that isn’t a democratic shite hole.

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When schools in the hood are combined sometimes you get rival gangs together.

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Not the fault of whitey

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Actually don't you be dumb and it might make your brain explode.

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Your level of hypocrisy is astounding.

And for the record, acting like New Orleans politicians haven’t played the race card for at least the last 50 years is just willful stupidity. Damn place still had sitting water after Katrina and Nagin was declaring that “New Orleans is, and always will be a “Chocolate City”.

Did they interview Fournette?

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you're correct about rap helping create this culture but i don't think most people here disagree

i find gang and organized crime stuff very interesting (and also listen to some rap) so i occasionally will watch some youtube videos or look at an instagram account about this stuff. rappers like nba youngboy, lil durk, young thug, and pop smoke absolutely, 100% influence a lot of kids. personally, i think the "dissing the dead" trend in rap is a big factor in the increase in violence over the last couple years

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so how do you explain the violence of the early and mid 80s when the prominent rap was that of run dmc and the young mc and the bass sounds out of Maimi mainly 2 live crew?

NWA really started the gangster rap movement, but even like eric b and rakim, too short etc all didnt really come on to the scene until 87 or later and really NWA was the major turning point and they didnt come on until 88, and didnt become popular until 89 with straight out of compton.


so why was there so much killing in the 70s and early 80s before rap became popular?

i get much of it is gang culture and drugs and much of the reason they get into that lifestyle has nothing to do with rap.

it has everything to do with culture and lack of father figures.

im a big OC guy too and why has it become less and less popular? because fathers didnt want their kids going into it. they did it for the money and they felt there were no other opportunities for them.

look at how the reaction was with Gotti said he was makign Junior....everyone was like WTF?? why would you want to bring your kid into this. that was in the late 80s early 90s.

the culture we are talking about though is fatherless and has no leader to tell them....hey dont do this. that is the issue. its a culture issue that glorifies this. they have never wanted to be anything more. and the problem is its all over in the black communities. its not 1 offs like the mafia was even during its hey day.

they shite on and make fun of those that get out or try and learn in school. they glorify the streets, they dont snitch etc

its a failed society inside the greatest society ever known to man kind and a failed culture inside the country that provides the greatest opportunity for advancement in class ever known to man kind. and it has been a failed culture for half a fricking century now and it has exactly shite to do with rap. go look at the 70s in NYC, the 80s in baltimore and nola, etc


many of the worst cities crime wise in the mid 70s-90s are the same today and they all have 1 thing in common(besides democratic leadership) and that is a high percentage of black residents and a high percentage of black on black crime


so fricking spare me the whole rap music is the cause for the violence bullshite please