So....in order for it to be music it has to have a message....what about instrumental music?

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And the part about the negative message depends on your point of view. If you grew up in the ghetto, live in the ghetto, it's not negative to you. If anything it could be positive, by getting the message out of what life really is like in the inner city. People from suburbia think it's negative because they've never had to deal with any of that, they would rather just ignore it and not hear about it than try and do something about it.