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You don’t see how your last sentence contradicts your first two? Especially when we’re dealing with children?
I’m totally with you when it comes to the angle of calling these rappers “soft” for snitching which is admittedly the root of most of the fascination with it from the media’s standpoint rn. They want to bait those reactions from the comment section full of people who are nowhere near street life anyway.
At the same time you have a bunch of essential CB4’s influencing **** like you see in that middle school Ja pic up there (who then grows into a grown man still obsessed with those same ethos and tropes to the point where he’ll jeopardize millions of dollars to be “down”)….
As adults we have nostalgia with rap culture and don’t want to be harsh on it, we go “well of course rappers snitch it’s all entertainment”
The impressionable dumb *** kid who don’t got someone standing over everything he consume/damn near treating rap as his mirror for what makes him cool as a young black man don’t see it like that. Especially when you have rappers saying **** like “I’m Not No Rap *****”
how are they not to get confused on what makes them cool/solid/etc as a black boy > man?QC P response to the **** was that he “far removed” from street life to not have to follow certain “rules”…conveniently after having a hand in introducing many of those same “rules”/ethos/tropes to a large portion/new generation of impressionable urban youth over the past decade via Migos and Baby. Like I said tho it’s all too far gone because we’re collectively too attached to rap culture to really wanna have the convo. And then there’s all the other things that were in place in this country before rap music was even a thing that makes it even more murky
