When rappers glorify drug use, they are in collusion with drug dealers who trick children to use or sell drugs for them. The use of children in drug dealing hasbeen a standard practice in our nation for a very long time. This is caused by the adult drug dealers being too cowardly to face the risk of incarceration for themselves and finding it much easier to manipulate kids to take all the risks for them. I equate these drug dealers who use children in this manner with pedophiles. When caught, they should be classified as child predators and not be allowed around children when released, just as if they'd raped a child. Make no mistake, the child who uses and sells drugs has been damaged for life in a manner similar to a child who has been molested. Drug using and dealing can lead to both physical and mental trauma to a child, which they might never recover from. Once these predators and their rapper accomplices that glorify drugs get these children hooked on drugs, it will be very difficult for that child to recover and fully realize their potential. Prisons and graveyards are full of young people whose talents will never come to light. The cost to society of the tragedies that inevitably follow when children get into drugs, tarnishes all the "bling-bling" that rappers like to show off from promoting that lifestyle. The ideology rappers promote to get their thirty pieces of silver is what's behind the destruction of our nation's cities. There could be no greater "Sell Outs!".
Obviously, rappers didn't invent all the wickedness that they glorify. However, unlike politicians, they do have an impact on the culture. They do help mold the perception of many of our nation's youth and with that comes a tremendous responsibility. The sad thing is that most of them are not even cognizant of the role they play. Yet, while politicians remain impotent at changing our culture, they have passed a number of laws resulting in our nation's prison population growing from one to two million people in recent years. This backlash to crime could not have happened, nor the entire Republican revolution of the 1990's, without the image of the "thug" being glorified so prominently by so called "gangster" rappers. For every dumb kid that thought it was cool, there was a multitude of horrified adults who flocked to the polls and voted en masse, which helped give the Republicans Congress in 1994.
Talk is cheap, and if a person can get away with talking instead of working, they'll usually take the easy way. Living in a democracy, freedom cuts both ways. People are free to lie about who they are or what's best for the country. It's up to the individual to be smart enough to not get conned. Politicians claim that what's best for the country is to become a police state with more cops and prisons. Rappers would have you believe that life is about getting high and accumulating money and "bitches," by any means necessary. If you look deep enough, you'll see that rappers and politicians are cut from the same cloth. Toilet paper. Maybe that's why they are so full of shit.
