I don't buy it. I've been to university with people who were frighteningly into hiphop. It didn't stop them wanting to do well.
It's easy to blame popular culture. It's a quick and convenient scapegoat. Looking beyond it to the real issues, poverty, violence, racism, lack of motivation, that's the tough part.
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"Then said Joseph to St. Mary, henceforth we will not allow him to go out of the house; for every one who displeases him is killed."
Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, 20:16
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