>People need to express themselves and what they are
>expressing reflects depper issues that need to be dealt
>with.

That is definitely true - that is the essence of self expression. But that is simplistic explaination of what is going on with rap records. Why do you think so many interchangeable artists are in the marketplace, on the radio? It is cultivated by the record industry - a myth of black gansterism, prositution, and guns. All for sale to the mostly white masses.

Positive expression doesn't sell - it's not "hip hop" to the record execs.