Its interesting that hip-hop and thug/gangster music has been primarily developed and pushed by German record labels. Its PSYOPS from the top down. Actually it was during a casual conversation over tennis with a U.S. military officer near D.C. (back in the 90s) that he related how the music was coming out of Germany.
Can you blame even a good kid for packing a Glock (IMHO the modern pistols are way too complex and malfunction prone--revolver + speedloader is FTW) when he lives in a neighborhood where the cops don't reply to 911 calls and when and where the drug dealers work with cops to the extent if a drug dealer (White or Black) would rape your 14 y/o sister or 18 y/o brother cops hardly care because afterall the dealer is an "informant" and so rape and sodomy is seen as "perks" or "incentives".
On that note, would any of you want George Bush, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld, Condaleeza Rice or Hilary Clinton as your neighbor? Not saying bad or good of any of them but its a question for perspectives.