Hip Hop is ART!!
All of this disecting going on about the culture and its music is just people with too much time on their hands.
People make conscious decisions to do the things that they do. To blame any genre of music for someone's illegal activities is just using it as a scape goat. If someone commits a crime they were more than likely going to do it regardless of any lyrics they heard in a song.
Just my thoughts. I am from the hip hop generation and I love it.
"Let's Take It Back To The Old School, Let's Take It To Union Square...."