RAP MUSIC

When I first started to listen to Rap Music it made me feel the heartaches and pains of being raised in the ghetto. I could relate to lyrics from songs that artist made. For example when Two Pac Shakur wrote the song Only God Can Judge me. "meaning no one can judge him but god. Rap music is usually rhymes that come from the heart about life in the ghetto. Rap music has really become more commercial and geared towards sex, money, drugs, and violence therefore, rappers of today portray these images to the youth in African-American communities. My question is this leading up to more and more African -American teens losing their lives to gang violence ? My next question is this also leading up to all-time high school dropout rates in the black communities ? In my eyes education is the only way out of the ghetto but, people never let the youth know that education is possible. Many young African-Americans do not think college is possible. If city school districts keep cutting budgets how do inner-city students reach their full potential ? Would censoring rap music and its videos help? Finally what can we do as a whole to stop what is rapidly leaving African-American with long jail sentences or death at a young age ?