you literally just made my point

collectively at this moment in America, Blacks are "better off" materially, than at any other point

BUT by every metric they are still near the bottom of, or most effected by systems such as the prison industrial complex, quality education, under and unemployment, high-wage earning, police brutality, social stigmas

Rap has little to do with anything

one, this position you been taking doesn't give the most marginalized of America's poor communities any sort of agency

two, denies the fact that mainstream rap is just as vapid, insipid, materialist, dumb, violent, and disposable as ever other American cultural production

and three, does nothing to account for the white and non-Black consumers of rap and how it effects them