I agree with what you say but I think what a lot of people tend to forget is that for a lot of these rappers coming up, their way of thinking tends to be "well im from the street, I did a lot of negative shit, who am I to start preaching positivity" They realise that it could be seen as hypocritical or they just want to focus on telling their past experiences (which are negative) or they simply don't carry enough intellegence to bring out positive messages.
This is when we get into a grey area because for a lot of these rappers while they may have achieved fame and success, they have yet to truly learn't from their mistakes, the fact that they are rappers is what keeps them from doing all the negative shit they did before and in some cases still do which is why we get all these reports of rappers being arrested for this and that.
Not everyone in hip hop can preach positivity unless they feel they have truly learn't from their mistakes and has realised that that way of life is bullshit, only then do I think a rapper could do it.
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