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Originally Posted by f8nacn
Why front about it? Why talk about something that you haven't experienced...or embellish the truth?
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Because the reality is that it sells records...money, women, bling, popp'in Cris and sipp'in Henni in the VIP room
. These images have been pumped into the brains of our youth as a symbol of success. The youth are the number one consumers of music CDs, so the images are portrayed to attract and impress the consumer (hence the immature images of so-called status). Therefore, I believe that yes, we do have a lot of undiagnosed depression in the AA community, however, and again I did not read the book so I do not know if the research data was presented on this study, but there would have to be strong quantifiable evidence to link depression to rap music.