>>132017559
rap music is largely about identifying villains and providing strategies to cope with them

>>132017573
To cope with villains? Isn't is more about romanticizing being a villain?

>>132018367
Being surrounded by scum and villainy is the classic villain origin story, right? If you grew up surrounded by nice happy people you wouldn't be able to even begin to connect with these kinds of stories.

>>132018411
Yeah, but your point was about rap music itself and that it was about "identifying villains". Think of a random rap song in your head. Is it focusing on (A) the villains of the ambient the song character grew up in that made them become a villain too or is it focusing on (B) the current villain live itself and the experience of it, portraying as a glorious or romantic thing?

>>132018490
Well let's turn to one of rap music's favorite inspirations and inspirational figures. The movie Scarface and the titular character. Why do people like that movie? We know what happens at the end of it so obviously only an idiot would aspire to become Scarface. Is Scarface a villain or a hero? Or is the category of anti-hero something that defies that binary?

Remember that this world is filled with retards who can't understand the consequences of their own actions. Someone who is media literate can craft a defense of rap yet it can't excuse the stupidity of much of the audience.

>>132018490
Typos:
Current villain life*
Portraying it as*