Yes but the violence was only in select pockets of inner city culture. The gangsta culture was exported to kids living in perfectly fine neighborhoods. Their parents were away working for corporations (more corporatism) while the kids who were raised by public schools and the street were most susceptible.

If you want to hear the arguments against gangsta rap and the exploitative music industry (exploiting externalities just like any capitalist industry)

Listen to me do it in rap form, from 2015 … and please comment

https://m.soundcloud.com/gregory-magarshak/gangsta-rap