(HipHop Report 1). Statistics
             show that this is not the case, however, for there seems to be a more intense violence in
             the black communities than in the white ones. Much rap provides a spectacle of
             self-assertion, with images of black rap singers threatening white power structures, while
             denouncing racial oppression and police violence. All of these issues, unfortunately, result
             in frustration and hostility, which seems to be the story of young blacks in the inner cities.
             Even Tupac Shakur's songs, such as "If I Die 2nite" and "Death Arou
             ...