Hip Hop and Guns?

David Blunkett and other MP's believe certain hip hop and rap music "isn't acceptable" as it glorifies and encourages a lifestyle of guns, cirme and drugs? Do you think it is wrong or right of people to suggest hip hop is partly to blame for the rise of gangs and gun crime in recent years?

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no i think its the parents for letting theior kids become who they are. but then again you got little kids who watch thse rap videos so maybe.

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Aint no real thugs out there, all that hype is just selling CDs
Music is entertainment. Just because some morons cant realize that the artists are just singing (if you want to call it that) about their fantasies doesn't mean that it glorifies anything. Would you rather have them singing about this stuff, or actually doing it?
parents need to stop blaming rap and tv and movies for their kids stupidity....if the parents had raised them right and put their foot down their kids wouldn't be out doing that stuff. its just pathetic that they use that as a scapegoat for what they can't do for their kids
The glorification of the gansta lifestyle has undoubtedly had an effect on younger people, but the fact remains that every one of them had a choice. If we start blaming music for violence, how long before we start blaming movies, books and video games?

Oh, right. We already do all of that.

Regardless of whether or not certain rappers SHOULD glorify violence, the reality is they DO. Instead of asking hypothetical questions about circumstances we might not like but can't realistically do anything about, maybe we should be encouraging parents to keep tabs on and talk to their kids, to give them some sort of moral foundation from which to being making solid choices.
How can a sane person uphold such crap that glorifies senseless violence all too much? It is certainly a contributing factor to increasing crime. I don't want to hear it, and I wouldn't allow any kids I had to hear it. Free speech can be carried to absurdity.