I lived in the projects till I was 17, and I have seen it myself: fatherless boys with no guidelines for how to act turn to the men in rap songs and the crap they rap about, and use that as their moral compass. A couple years later, you've got just another thug waiting to get arrested for dealing or stealing, with a "nigga bet' no f*(^ wit' ME" attitude. I had a father at home, and didn't give a damn about rap (because I was the "white-talking" kid who was taught proper english, and rap to this day sounds so damn ignorant). Here I am, 31 years old, every brother I see has been arrested for some stupid crime or another, and I have never had any run-ins with police. Rap songs talk about things being so bad you HAVE to sell drugs...bullshit. Cut the dreads, brush your teeth, shave the hair off your face and neck, pull up your pants and apply for a job like everyone else. I speak to people apparently raised by rap (you know the ones, constantly rapping to themselves everywhere they go, as if they're composing a "song" for their big-name recording studio, when all they do is go home, smoke weed or sweet-tip cigars and play madden, and tell their mother they "ain't fount no job yet"), and I'd swear it had another effect on them: no vocabulary. I guess that's what happens when you only read your local newspaper's sports section. If you want to get somewhere, learn to speak the ONLY language you speak...properly. Quit attacking the english language. What did it ever do to you?