Why Does Hip Hop/Rap glamorize life in the ghetto?

I've never lived in the ghetto and have no desire to. From my understanding, life in the ghetto is the pits. You are poor and subject to a life of violence and drugs.

So why does Hip Hop/Rap glamorize it, saying it is real life? Not one of those rappers lives in the ghetto, and it's not a highly valued way of life, and it IS NOT normal. People should aspire to get out, not live the past and make it out to be better than it was.

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Some of hip hop/rap is telling a story of where the artist came from and to show that they haven't forgotten their roots/inspiration. But to some extent it glamorizes the violence/fast money and drugs which is a negative. It seems to be a marketing ploy as well since some rappers have been found out so to speak that they didn't live in the inner city but in the suburbs!! lol...

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just because people rap about doesn't mean it's true drugs can be anywhere as well as violence a majority of the rappers rapping about hasn't spent a minute in the "ghetto" they just rap about what they think goes on there
I never heard of any artist "glamorizing" any life in the ghetto. They talk about how they went from rags to riches though ~ maybe you have a hard time understanding. Get hooked on phonics. ~ It worked for me!
kind of ironic isnt it? because in the videos, you see fancy cars and homes. i dont know why it became that way, because early hip hop was more about dancing and having a good time

dawn18415- i have to diagree, i live in a (as some would say) affluent neighborhood and the teenagers listen to more eminem and 50 cent then probably those in the ghetto, also dressing up their cars like the videos
They do this because they think it sounds hard core, it makes them sound like nobody's been thorugh what they have. Also, sometimes they're trying to relate to the people who really do live in the ghetto and live in poverty. A lot of artists rap about this because that's what people want to hear, and most of them haven't ever lived there
poor people like to draw attention to them selves.
because they are not as smart as whites and since they are poor they can't glamorize thier life in the good nieghborhood since they can't afford to live with the uppercrust.