Let us be completely blunt here. If you want to find the worst part of just about any city, your best bet is that it will be clustered around a street named after Martin Luther King. That is just a plain, ugly fact.
Is it a genetic problem? Not on your life. But it is a cultural sickness that is most concentrated in the inner city. And the choice of music -- not to mention the exemplary lifestyles practiced by rap "artists" -- is a symptom of the sickness.
You can thank LBJ and the Great Society, too.
Wonder what Bill Cosby has to say about this sorry spectacle?