‘Musicians have gained public recognition as a result of being directly involved in street crime and gang activities’

I chose this quotation because I see it to be biased as it is trying to say all musicians (rap, hip hop) are involved in some sort of crime. This is biased because not all musicians are involved in crime for example, rappers as such as drake are not involved in crime. The writer also states ‘ rap, through materialist boasting and sexualised music videos tells vulnerable young men and women from isolated neighbourhoods that their problems that their problems can be solved by adopting similarly nihilistic personas’ I chose this as this is also very biased as not all rappers, in their lyrics, tell or influence young men and women to adopt a ‘gansta’  lifestyle. Going back to rappers like eminent