The abusive language and promotion of violence found in most Gangsta Rap songs are the reality of our present day society. Americans are mature enough to realize that not talking about something won't cause it to go away. An organized ban on Gangsta Rap music would be futile, it would only serve to promote its sales, which would firmly entrench and tend to legitimize its message. Gangsta Rap is more like a comet than a wake-up call and for the National Black Leadership to think of it as such is bleakly humorous. Truth isn't negated by its silence.
Censorship is an aging yet still basic evil.
National Black Leadership's attempts to censor the arts liken it to the last swaggering Dinosaur, unrelizant that Dinosaurs are one false step away from extinction. In the Gangsta-Rappers, this negligence is a symptom of victimization by economical inequities and trauma. Both physical and emotional. In producing a salable commercial product by rapping about the intolerable conditions they live in, Gangsta-Rappers effectively swing the pendulum of their lives into sync with the rest of America. Cowardly opposing the forcing hands of Gangsta Rappers, they've opted to advocate censuring the message-bearers.