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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 5482912" data-attributes="member: 56035">being a gangsta is glorified in the rap music and it is profitable. the market encourages music with toxic lyrics.the community leaders are in jail.  look at when the war on drugs started, and look at when civil rights was popular.the rappers are raised in a generation of spiritual blackout so is it any wonder their music is toxic black on black violence and consumerism?  when you compare this to the rappers in the 1980s who grew up during civil rights era, the musical content is night and day.  and this is before gangsta rap was discovered to be profitable.</blockquote>