Censorship of Gangsta Rap

why ban gangsta rap? its like telling you that you can't speak your mind. Gangsta rap is mostly about living in a hard knocked life, hard to get money so they get it the wrong way, however they can. life in the ghetto.

Gangsta rap is a form of entertainment lilke any other. SOme of its purveyors may use words or imagery that portrays certain criminal acts, but that is because they reflect the culture from which it spawned. Critics miss the subtleties of rap music, in which the rapper often takes on a particular persona in a song and so does not necessarily endorse the views or actions it portrays; rap fans are well aware of these ambiguities. Violence and criminality are also endemic in other forms of entertainment, for example opera and classic films often contain large-scale killing and violence. Trying to link 'gangsta' rap to crime is singlink it out amongst entertainment forms for political reasons. Would heavy metal, with its comparable content, be picked on instead if it were the music of a black urban underclass?