A lot of the violence in Los Angeles is gang warfare between Hispanic and Afro-American gangs.

Unfortunately a lot of innocent bystanders have been killed as a result of this.

Which has nothing to do with rap/hip-hop, salsa, jazz/blues, pop, heavy metal, punk, country, etc.

Guns don't kill people...and neither does artistic expression.

It was my elaboration on a quote brought by Low on the prior page. I was just pointing out that in my opinion based on material in the Los Angeles media over the years, the growth in violence in Los Angeles has less to do with Rap, but more to do with turf warfare, a lot of which has resulted from the high growth rate of the Hispanic population and territorial expansion by Hispanic gangs into traditional African-American turf.
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Getting back to the original aricle. I do agree that players are more wussier than 20 years ago. But its like that in all sports. So much less contact is tolerated now like Low was saying.

I am not going to comment on Hip Hop violence because I don't know all the facts. My immediate complaint is how Tatoos have trancended over the gender line and HipHop seems partly to blame. I hate women with tatoos. Its so unsightly and way too dang masculine for me. Sorry to sound unafair. Its like if Guys started wearing lipstick. Lipstick would not be permanant though. Once you get a Tat, thats it.

I think some of this change in the NBA has to do with.

The NBA is now a big media business, with a ton of TV/Cable/Dish revenues as opposed to say when the Bad Boys ruled. The product today with less physical contact is more acceptable for mass media and hence Stern's push to make the game less physical and more gentlemanly.

Also I think that the feminist movement has also had an impact on male athletes attitudes. It would be interesting to see a study done on this.

It's easy to blame anything for anything, while going back to the orginal topic, I told myself that NBA games looked like kung-fu movies and Europe games were street fights in real life as I watched the Fiba-Europe game.