And hip-hop music videos celebrate the "Thug Life" and "gansta" attitude for any young black person seeking strong racial identity.

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And I think, in large part, it's due to this culture of, you know, gangster life and thug life that's become so accepted, acceptance of crime, acceptance of drug dealing, the no-snitch campaign, this kind of thing that I think is just poisonous for young minds because that's who's doing it, young people often involved in fighting over drug turf, killing each other.

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