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Does the hip hop image sometimes cause people who aren't fans of the genre to cast stereotypes about people who are fans of the genre??

Of course!

And all the bad images represented by hip hop culture aren't stereotypes. In some cases, they are facts of life, right??

Mainstream rap artists aren't the only ones hurting peoples' outlook on the black community. If people heard half the s**t underground rappers spew, they would be twice as afraid of ever setting foot into a "black community" as they currently might be.

oh please, how many white people do you see in the projects? you know ho police say they how there 'searching for a weapon' the safest place to hide it is in the ghetto, even cops are afraid to go in there

It's not just the media. The idiots who choose to blindly follow it also make others look bad. xp

its the style these days (sadly). If people wouldn't follow it, the rappers would have to change to make sales. Besides, people mostly listen to the beats than the actual rappers. If the rappers were to rap about hoes and booty without an awesome beat, women would kick their asses. (excuse my language). Thats why I'm glad that R&B isn't like that. sweatdrop

Yes it is sad how our generation can be like this. What people find so inticing about it....I don't know. I like hip-hop an rap because it is music and is there for entertainment and not imitation, which i think many forget that. Yeah the clothes are kind of nice but people's lives should not be surrounded by someone else's (example 50 Cent in his movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin' ") I think that it is when one thing is popular that others try to act that way so they can be popular...I guess. But the whole black community is not like this it is only a few which I think gives us the bad reputation.

Hip hop does not objectify women. Women in the hip hop world often objectify themselves, what kind of women do you think follow those rappers around? Money greedy whores who will sleep with them just for bragging rights or to get money out of them. I used to think rap objectified them until I began to take a look at us women in general. Those women give themselves that image, and look at female rappers? Half of them sound like they want to go down on whatever guy's in their video the moment the song is over. Those women of course help build rapper's images of women being whores, just like those rappers often make black people look bad.

I am tired of ignorant non-black people who listen to rap. I dont mean the ones that are really into it and are just listening to it cause they like it. Im referring to those who will listen to it and than walk around goin "yo im black foo." My brother was the only black kid in a class full of white people, moment he walked in everyone was like, "Waddup dawg?!" and nicknamed him 2pac. I listen to rock more then rap and often I hear, "Im more black than you are and Im white, youre white washed"