Typical response from someone who doesn't understand poverty or growing up with a single mother. The reason is, in my opinion, the systematic oppression of urban youth, regardless of race, in conjunction with the societal push of certain races toward certain genres of music.
It also has to do with people's personalities and friends. It's a lot more personal than the media makes it out to be. It's a culture spread on a person-to-person basis, to a large extent, extended but not created by mass media.
Look, for example, at me vs. my cousin (Lloyd Banks). We were both raised in Queens, NY, surrounded primarily by hip-hop culture. I moved to North Carolina when I was eight, which should, theoretically, have pushed me more toward hip-hop since you get judged more around here for not sticking to their stereotypes. He had a father (and later, a stepfather). He had a big and loving family. I had a loving family as well (although not the same family; he's on my father's side and I didn't meet anyone from that side until I was thirteen or fourteen), but was raised by a single mother. We had, and have, serious financial trouble. Yet he's in rap, and I'm in punk. We just gravitated toward different genres of music. That's all there really is to it.
