critique #2: Hip Hop Reflects Black Dysfunctional Ghetto Culture

In this chapter of Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose talks about how Hip Hop negatively portrays the black community. Many times in Hip Hop songs rappers describe where they come from and their lifestyles which generally don't tend to be good. Because of this,many people start to relate black people to the lifestyle many rappers rap about,such as bad neighborhoods full with drugs and violence. This poor reflection of black culture is what many people who do not support hip hop use to support their opposition to hip hop. A word directly related to this issue is "ghetto" which is what many people use to describe aspects of a dysfunctional black community. This draws a negative attention to the black community because rappers are publicly exposing the "ghettoes" in which they live in. In my opinion this makes it a lot harder for black people to get rid of that stereotypical image that is directly associated with them,simply for being black.