"Inner cities in late 20th century America degenerated..[]. Violent street gangs like the Crips, Bloods, and MS-13 formed to protect their communities even as they terrorized them for profit, just like the barbarian tribes did over 1,000 years earlier."

This is what city life does to all people but even more so to those poor and under educated.

"The disaffected minorities who made up these gangs felt that the social, legal, and economic structures of mainstream America would not protect them or provide them with opportunities for advancement, so they created their own parallel society based on loyalty and violence."

But something different happens, The Logos is used instead of physical violence: "Instead of actually murdering people,...[]... rhyme, meter, assonance, and other poetical devices to elaborately threaten to murder people."
Might we call that "Real" Hate speech? absent the physical animosity.

"Other civilizations have followed the same progression. Beginning in the fifth century, Scandinavian, Gaelic, and Anglo-Saxon tribal groups all developed a tradition of “flyting,” a poetic contest of threats and insults very similar to a rap battle. In fact, one scholar has even suggested that American slaves may have picked up the practice of flyting from their Scottish owners and that “the dozens” (an informal African-American insult contest often seen as a precursor of the rap battle) could represent a fusion of flyting with those slaves’ own African musical traditions."

"The logos is the spark of divinity that makes civilization possible, enabling us to bind ourselves with laws, contracts, and constitutions, to have elections instead of wars of succession and rap battles instead of brawls. Given our society's current inability to engage in rational discourse, a renewed appreciation for the logos as a shared commitment to seeking and articulating truth could be our only hope."

As I read this piece, a present day correlation occurred to me...is this what the left has been doing...Engaging in Political Rap, threatening violence, impeachment, a total take over with no real substance, obstructionism, with no real solutions>
I dare say, that in contrast, Rappers, how ever disgusting and lack of musicality apply the logos to their benefit more effectively than the left.

The Political Rap of the left, spits out it's nonsensical diatribe, without rhyme, without a beat, without a chorus of background singers that relieve us from the repetition, but just as disgusting and violent as rap, abet without any point or redeeming quality nor any moral to the story.