Hip hop culture, more commonly known as sub-genre rap, is often characterized by excessive violence compared to other popular culture genres like country-western. However, hip hop is the symptom of cultural violence, not the cause. It results from a prevalent problem of youth living in the racially stratified inner-city ghettos, thereby having sharpened socioeconomic worldviews through deep racial and economic disparities. This behavior is clearly portrayed in the book The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace in which hip hop, the dominant music genre in the “illtown”, subconsciously impacts Rob’s decision of staying in his suboptimal neighborhood East Orange even after graduation, which results in his eventual downfall. Brotherhood, or
