Musician Tricky has blamed hip hop for the rise in knife and gun crime across Britain.
Funny--I have the same access to it as everybody else, and I haven't stabbed or shot anybody.
Effects aren't the same as causes, Trickman. You might instead want to look at the type of culture that produces a demand for what you got, and then look at what produces that type of culture.
As for your Bronx/UK comparison, interesting, but I wouldn't know. I expect to keep my distance from both.
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Now music is both a solace and a recreation. And who can say that, having this use, it may not also have a higher one? For it enters into and forms the soul; virtue and vice are represented by melody and rhythm, and the feeling aroused by the imitation is not far removed from the same feeling about realities...Seeing the great power of music, we cannot afford to neglect the use of it in education. -aristotle
Elements of truth, anon, but remember that Aristotle also taught that the Solar system was geocentric, and that the four elements of the universe were fire, water, earth, and air.
I'm thinking that it might have been likely that if Aristotle witnessed what passes for a rap video today being performed in his Lyceum, the actors would run a high risk of receiving their recognition in the form of a flight of arrows.
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