>An aspiring rap star, who has been charged with murdering his roommate and eating part of her lung, did so as part of his record label's plan to cultivate a "gangsta" image for him, the victim's mother charged in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles

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This type of thing is crazy, I think that hip-hop music and the culture around it has to come to a head at some point. I hate to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, and I grew up in the age of suburban white gangsta rap creation, but at this point the stuff is just a self propagating mess of people trying to act hard, and running there life and neighborhoods into the ground. I swear it is almost a form of self oppression. I just preaches into kids hears and out from there lips negative thoughts and actions. I grew up on this music, N.W.A, Too Short, Slick Rick, and I still listen to it, but there is a difference between a nerd like myself and someone who actually believes these people, and watches cribs, and stands outside MTV to idolize people who don't really live the lifestyle, but play it out in their music. There really is nothing that we should do or can do as a society, but I guess I hope that at some point, much as how the idea of disco became less of an idealized lifestyle choice, the same will happen when people realize acting hard ain't doing anything for them and the community around them.