Those of weak mind will succumb to 'powerful words'. Those who cannot keep reality and fantasy apart have problems. People live the fantsy in music, and live the real in life itself. Think video games. One minute you're enthralled and engrossed in an rpg of sorts then once you switch off the console and whoooosh!!! The real world is back. Only otaku carry on living fantasy once they've "switched off the console".
In digging deeper I meant in terms of music. Listen to some OLDER Jay Z music. Jay Z died a coupla years ago (metaphorically), but back in the start he was a very conscientious rapper.
Let's switch it and go to something innocuous, like love songs and the people who sing em. In reality, do you really thing these people run through the meadows, love of life in hand, spinning in the daisies? Nope. But they still constantly sing about there "one true love" in every song they sing. If this fantasy was reality, they would be whores, or sluts, or man-sluts, with hundreds of "one true loves". Once again, they are living their fantasy in their music. It's just a different and more bucolic fantasy than that of rappers.
I'll say it now, don't think I'm defending rappers here; I'm sick to my back teeth of all the gun talk and all that shite, I probably hate it more than any other rap fan out there. But I understand that as long as it's on wax and doesn't spill out into reality, it's just entertainment. Not exactly moral or good, but harmless al the same. Unless you succumb to it. Why should anyone compromise what they are doing just because some stupid wayward butthole accepts their words as "dire truth?". That's their problem. If someone was to hand to my every statement and follow my words to the letter, I wouldn't give a flying fuck. That's their problem. I say what I please, they do what they please. Simple as that.
I can understand where you're coming from though. Rap is in a state of fuckeries, even if it IS very popular. It has become commercial, and the COMMERCIAL rap image can be summed up in one word. BLING.
And bling is an ugly, ugly word indeed.
btw, I'll check up on some rock music, do a bit of exploration...
