Is Mainstream Rap Exploiting Poverty?steemCreated with Sketch.

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We've all seen the latest rap videos shot in the Caribbean and Africa. The Images we are often shown are of impoverished areas with men, women and children in tattered clothes among fences of rusted galvanized sheets. Whilst they seem to be enjoying themselves being featured in videos portraying their culture through dance and celebration what is the real endpoint of such a display? What is the benefit to these persons?

Certainly the rappers are generating massive amounts of income from having videos that appeal to persons from this background who make up a large number of the human population. How is this massive generated wealth being reciprocated? Or is it that these persons (rappers)  through their handlers pay the criminals or "Don's" that control these regions? Not hating on rappers but certainly one wonders in whose favour the scales are being tipped.
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