and immediately think the solution to them is adding more policing to the community is at best ignorant/not very smart or at worst a bigot.

It's like saying, "Well, look at all this fire. It needs liquid to put it out...Gasoline is a liquid! Weeeeeeee!!!!"

Poverty breeds higher crime (not race) so if someone heard these artists' stories and didn't ask, "Why are the communities this way? What is the job market like? Are the education systems striving? Is there adequate health and mental care? Are there institutions to combat gun violence in place? What type of community resources are being provided and what are they being used for?" then they just aren't the type of person that should be evaluating a "culture" in the first place.

But see, it's never been about solving the problems. It's always been about monetizing them.

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