Hey, for me far and away, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin will always be the pinnacle of music... ahhh the old crooners...
But that doesn't devalue the talent of Eminem.
To say we have gun laws because of Rap is ass backward... Gun violence has been gang related back to the days of Capone... Wasn't any Rap music back than. Hell, plenty of movies have romaticized mafia life.
Rap music dealing with guns is a reflection of the society in which these folks grew up in, not the cause of the decay. South LA was a gang shit hole for decades... the place burned to the ground before there was any rapping about East Coast/West Coast and such.