The real problem with black on black crime

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
It's clearly gangsta rap, or lack thereof. Seriously, I'm always amused by people who blame gangsta rap for black crime. Anyone who knows hip-hop knows that when the music was most conscious--late 80s, early 90s--the streets were insane. And when the streets were most sane--mid to late 90s--any fool who could gun-talk was going platinum. Proper Talks points us to this helpful graph.


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Whatever. I don't need no visual aids to tell me what I've known for years--niggers done loss their minds since Dre fell off.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/12/the-real-problem-with-black-on-black-crime/6511/