Hip-Hop Film and Music

I feel that Hip-Hop Cinema and Music, at their cores, are intended to be reflections of the Black urban experence. Occasionally, however, the product ends up facilitating the negative images a lot of people already associate with Hip-Hop in general (this happens most often in the musical realm, in my opinion). The Game has a song in which he says that people watch a few gangster movies (like "Boyz N The Hood" or "Menace 2 Society") and listen to some gangster music (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, etc.) and all of a sudden think that they are "gangster" themselves. Game goes on to say that there is a whole lot more to it than just watching some movies and listening to some songs. It starts in the urban community and the artists who make it out use their talents (via film or music) to paint a picture of what they know. There certainly are plenty of examples of Hip-Hop musicians whose product facilitates the negative associations many have with their craft, however. In my opinion, they abandon the formula of recreating the images with which they are familiar and just go with what sells (certainly the opportunistic way, but not the way in which one "keeps it real.")