Hiring A DJ & Rapper If You Can't Afford A Band's Crazy

Poverty, which birthed the culture we love, is a shameful reminder of the tolls American inequality takes on the physical and psychological circumstances of our lives. Many who have emerged from these environments had inadequate access to mental health treatment growing up, even as they were raised around the same trauma and violence that breeds mental illness in the first place. To this day, rappers reference this poverty to show how "real" they are, and use the language of illness to describe their skills. All the while, we applaud their efforts without thinking twice about the basis of those skills in real pain and suffering.