Chief Keef And Gang Violence Analysis

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Have you heard about the young super savage rap star? His music messes people’s mind up and just flat out create violence. Chief Keef is born and raised in Chicago IL. growing up all his life before and after the fame was straight violence. Violence is getting very bad and out of hand. Gang/gun violence in Chicago is very bad in a new article by Jessica D’Onofrio and Sarah Schulte says “There were 292 shooting victims in January 2016, compared to the first month of 2015, when there were 136. That 's more than double. There were 51 murders in the first month of 2016, compared to 29 in January 2015. That 's a 75 percent increase”. The song Was, performed by Chief Keef addresses the issue of gun/gang violence when analyzed using a cultural lens. …show more content…
Gang and gun violence is still big because people go through hard serious life situations everyday that make people do crazy things. Nowadays the first thing people do when things get hard is go get a gun and do dumb things. In the article “why people join gangs” it says “Young people might feel that they don 't receive enough support or attention at home”. They are right with gang violence people go through things like young boys getting kicked out the house and they start to feel left out and like no one cares about them so they get street love and they might join a gang and from being in a gang get money put in they pocket and a place to lay there head at night so they stay in the streets and get dirty money from gangs. Gang and gun violence will never stop no matter how hard people try to stop …show more content…
It may sound funny but, gang and gun violence is kind of like a culture in some cities. Some people grow up knowing they we be in the streets and born into the gang life. In the “Nipsey Hussle & gillie Da Kid interview” they say “gang culture is so big now because people are starting to really study the gang life and what 's going on”. There all people all over the world that love guns and love to hurt people with guns. That 's why it will never be stopped because it is a culture and its just a lifestyle. So that is why the criticism cultural is the best for this

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