The world governments have a bigger roll to play in what are acceptable responses to conflict, the youth see powerful people in suits who are accepted as icons and statesmen of the world, but when things don't go their way they often resort to the use of guns and bombs to get their message across, when these actions are celebrated on television, the youth subconsciously see this as the correct way of dealing with beef, i.e "The government thought Sadam had weapons of destruction so they moved to him and had beef," the youth then feel if that's how the government deals with beef then they (the youth) will attempt to act like the government and deal with their beefs in the same way. The world governments are far more influential than Hip Hop on the youth...
I remember as a kid growing up I asked my Ma, why there were wars on the news, this was my first encounter with conflict on that kind of scale, yet the people who conducted the conflicts mostly wore suits and were well spoken, we can't look at a relatively small institution such as hiphop as the big thing and not see the effect that government policy has in shaping the minds of the youth regarding their attitude towards war, death, language, and personality...
After 911 and Sadam being taken out, if you watched the news during that period, their was a sharp rise in urban killings, I believe that this was in part due to the national stance towards how beef was being dealt with around the world.
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