Hey @tremendospercy as always thank you for the support my friend .. hope you're well.

Yes like yourself I clearly remember when the narrative and the message changed .. indeed it occurred so quickly it was as if someone had flicked a switch. I think many of the gangsta rappers were fairly young and didn't realise that by verbalising their own anger they were feeding a culture that was destroying their communities. The record companies decided to put that type of material at the forefront and so equally the up and coming rappers felt a pressure to emulate the style and outdo each other on the shock factor .. I aso think labels whipped up beefs between various crews to gain coverage, I mean from a purely cold perhaps psychopathic perspective those shootings and deaths must have been good for business .. did 2pac & Biggie sell more albums alive or dead? It was a controlled snowball effect.

If you look through modern history whenever the government launches a ‘War on’ weather it be drugs, terror or poverty you can be sure things are going to get worse, it’s what they do....

Yes I couldn't agree more .. I guess the best we can hope for is that they launch a war on peace .. then we may actually have some!!

It really saddens me how people fall for the same crap over and over again .. we must rise above it and become wise to the sick games of division and control that are being played with our lives.

Thanks again my friend