Origins of violent hip hop

Some People would argue that hip-hop creates violence, and no doubt it plants misguided ideas in the youth of society, but hip-hop originated as a way to express there mentalities on live. Hip hop really took off with N.W.A and artists like Ice Cube, and Eazy E. The general focus of their lyrics was to explain how life was in South Compton. With songs like “Ghetto Bird”, and “Fuck the Police” these people were able to express the terrible conditions of their living conditions. Living conditions that were forced upon them by the United State's Government. If anything hip-hop should be viewed as a reflection of the social conditions that we forced blacks to live. People were reliant on factories as a source of income, and when they shut down a large majority of black people were out of work. Conditions in the city went down hill and crime rates went up. Groups like N.W.A have lyrics that are a social outcry for how terrible the conditions were. They expressed the actions they took to survive through there music. A lot of the songs focus on crack dealing, and killing. Once the expressive songs were out there is a good chance it could of influenced younger generations. If the youth sees people they admire making it big by rapping about things like killing and crack dealing then it is easy to see why they would be influenced to do the same. These artists started a trend that eventually lead to modern day rap which is generally focused on material things, drug dealing, weapons, and violence. Only the government can be blamed for the start of violence in hip-hop.