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It would be a very short list, would it not, if one were to inventory the hiphop songs about marital fidelity, sincere love, and the value of long term honest hard work.

If we posit that one can understand cultures through music, is it that hard to grasp how black people–the primary originators of hiphop, and the predominant consumers of it–constitute 40% of our prison population, despite being only some 12% of the population as a whole? 

Culture matters, and culture is transmitted perhaps most directly by parents, and then music.  Corrupt either or both, and you get failure.