Quote:Smack or any other "battle league" is hardly indicative of any sort of majority.  I'm not even denying that some rap is about those things mentioned earlier...but it's nowhere near as prevalent as it was 10 20 or 30 years ago.  Even Jay Z spends half his rhymes about art.

 

It may not be as prevelent as it was before, but that's because it ran the culture back 10 and 20 years okay. The promotion of violence is still more prevelent in rap than any other genre, and that's not really debatable.

 

Further, If people are using examples of Eric Clapton and Bob Marley of how other genres promote violence, how is it unfair to compare then to N.W.A, Tupac, and Bone Thugs n Harmony? And f Redneck Crazy is being used as an example of country promoting violence, then the battle rap scene is most definitly in play.

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