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The current generation of young people are too obsessed with criminals and mobsters. Since it’s birth, hip-hop has told stories of the realities of the street, and often this has included the glorification of violence.

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Young black men are killing each other for something as trivial as a piece of jewelry. The cold-hearted nature of this is that many will leave the body where it lays, go home and relax.

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