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From One Drop at Too Sense:

You want to know the real reason I get so pissed off about gangsta rap?

Suburban white kids.

They're the largest segment of the commercial audience for Hip Hop. As much as people talk about Hip Hop being of, for, and by the black community, you wouldn't see multi-platinum albums without those suburban white kids flocking to the music. Like any other business, the music industry responds to the tastes of its customers. And those suburban white kids, they love the image of the black gangsta. So the industry gives them more gangstas, takes artists that really come from middle-class upbringings and portrays them as the hardest ghetto rats in the world. And white suburbanites gobble that shit up and ask for more.

The whole thing reminds me of Bamboozled, which was fiction right?