>>512892098
31 year old here. So many kids I grew up with idolized this shit and threw away their futures by the time they were out of high school, because they wanted to be "real".
Didn't matter how nice their families were.
Didn't matter if they came from money.
Like, a HUGE overlap between guys who idolized gangsta rap, and ending up penniless and unmarried in their 30s, jumping between wage jobs. The stuff strokes your ego and victim complexes simultaneously until you feel like you're above working for your future, or that you should spend all your money pretending to be rich, because you're ashamed of being "poor". It's absolutely insane, but you get so much social backlash for calling out the pattern.