I'm very serious! If u wanted to turn the blind eye thats fine. When I say violence I dont mean violence all over the world is caused by rap, but I mean as far as the youngsters in "some cases". I'm somewhat of a sadistic, meaning I kinda watch people and study them and their behavior. I've seen your average inner city adolescent go from playing basketball at the park a few years back to now he ice grillin and every other word out his mouth is "get money" and his conversation mirrors that of a rap song. His whole demeanor is that of Camron cuz we tease him and call him lil dipset. He's a sweet kid at heart but he thinks he has to be hard and its all about smokin goodie good and "get money"...where do u think he copped that attitude from?? Nobody in his family acts like that, he aint come out the womb with that mentality...he learned it. From where? I think its VERY responsible for us as a culture to acknowledge that our music "can" influence a negative element that often times leads to other things. I've been in the club and watch Jeezy come on and every nigga turns into super thug, bumpin niggaz like "what" bobbin to the music with a drink in they hand like they in a music video. I'm not sayin that the music is the "direct"cause but it can definintly breed negative energy. I'm sure many of you are here because of Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, etc....music that influenced love so thats what everybody was on back then. Play stupid if u want but yall know what it is....down.