[fr_freak]

The problem is violent crime in the black community. Violence that is glamorized by million dollar moguls in the rap music industry. Rap 'stars' boasting (sometimes fraudulently) about the number of times they 'got shot' and 'have been locked up'.

To Will Smith's credit, his raps/music have always been relatively clean ("Parents just don't understand"). There are also others in the genre who have stayed that way, but mostly those that started in the 80s.

[a fool in paradise]

His own recording career may have been free of such gun violence but so is his critique of American culture. He attacks the ‘gun culture’ without attacking those who glamorize gun crime for entertainment and profit in the black community.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I remember early rap from the 70’s and 80’s that was blue as hell. Had to hear it in the barracks.