AAGH. will explicit gangsta rap and its culture worsen?

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I'm tired of hearing the N word heard all the time, even when african american youth are joking or just plain conversing with each other and using it like it's just another noun, adjective whatever.

I can't stand the music being boomed out of cars (i live in a tough suburb in oakland cali btw, and i am 22 but this does bother me, all of this) like it's no big deal, with all the swear words, n word in tow, degrading women and taking such things as violence and drugs and prostitution unbelievably for granted.

Kids even play this stuff ultra loud--well, as loud as they can get away with, pretty much all the time. and pretty much just on buses. even openly from their media players on their phones, of all things!

The scary thing is, and i know it's already been bad enough ever since its entrance in the mid-to-late 90s, but is that it's affecting the direction music is going in (yeah other kinds of music are only making it worse themselves but this one to me is the last straw), and its making urban communities go to dirt dumps, yes figuratively, but really, because it's affecting discrimination, the way our youth are beginning to dress, our looseness in language, and so on.
It's ridiculous.

I'm not exactly all that worried, but i'm just putting this poll out there to make people think....but to make a disclaimer i feel like i'm pointing a huge finger on urban culture like everyone is totally screwing up and their grandmother, that everyone is that bad, but hey, drug dealing? after that, if this becomes viral, will it be hard to control as a nation, even worldwide trend?

the faerie.

Are you black? Just wondered.

It's a stable ecosystem. Remember it was the American government who gave blacks drugs in the first place, to squash the black power movement. In my opinion gangsta culture has been fantastic influence on music.

hah, actually i'm not at all and i love rap music....really i made that disclaimer and i'll make it extended further that if you disagree at all it's fine. There is just a way of crossing the line where rebellion in such a genre seems to be an unhealthy influence on our youth, but that's within my personal opinion on things. It's all good if anyone thinks otherwise, and to confess i used to listen to a few artists in my iTunes collection that use the N word to make a flat candid confession, but as i said above our culture is a bit of a worry to me. this is probably gonna be a slew of No's as far as my poll count but, also thinking in what Fraac says it's a fresh take on black power only in a different light, if that's exactly his message. i have no qualms with that (sorry that word doesn't seem to fit the alternative of "no problems") but of course we're all entitled to an opinion, as if this needed to be reordered enough as a reminder
yup, it's all cool. i have my tastes and others have theirs, it just depends i suppose....

I think that in some ways it is. Much of this music glorifies drugs, violence, hatred for authority, unwise money choices (aka bling bling lol), and the list goes on. While it can be said that it is just music, many young people, particularly those who grow up in the inner-city, idolize and respect many of these rappers. They see someone who came from a similar walk of life and became highly successful, so they aspire to be like them or emulate their behaviors, for better or worse. It can be easy to imagine someone who is a big fan of rap thinking to themselves "Well 50-cent shot 18 people and smokes 50 lbs of weed every day and he became a multimillionaire, so why shouldn't I?". Of course this is an exaggeration, but hopefully it illustrates my point (nothing against 50-cent lol, but he seems to glorify the gangster rap persona).

That said, I don't think all of it is bad. Particularly more with respect to hip-hop, there are many artists out there who put out a really good message and really do make some good music. But for much of the mainstream rap, it's almost exclusively about sex, guns, and drugs, in no particular order.