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I haven't read the book. However, I am a hip-hop head and I'd say that I don't think that artists are proud of being from "abandoned by parents, death of friends" etc, however they ARE proud that they SURVIVED these things. I don't think their messages are "It's so great to be from a broken home, don't you wish you had crackhead parents?" But moreso "I came from a hood where all I saw was crackheads, prostitutes and I had to sell drugs to survive, but I made it out alive and now I'm rich."
Do I think that their depressed? Hmmm, probably, but I think MOST Americans are, lol. I think that coming from their backgrounds they have reason to be depressed and just cause to have "issues". I see their communicating it in song no different than someone writing it in their journal or ranting in the "open letter" thread of an internet message board.
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