Problem is povery is a cover. Most poor people ain't on gangster shit. Busting guns. Kicking doors. Etc. That's one reason I laugh when people say where they are from like that means shit. They use the goons for cover so they can act hard. So they can be from the projects, but never kicked a door in their life. But they will claim the projects like it makes them hardcore.
It's a lot of rappers dropping and those cats got loot. Enough money to step away, but they don't. They still hang around 'hitters'. And you know the murder rate for us is so much higher than whites it really doesn't make sense. Impoverished white America ain't even got the murder rate black suburbs have in NE ohio.
How many of us got at least one dead friend due to street violence?
The elephant in the room is cats get a rush out of the life. Few want to admit it publicly. Pac died almost 30 years ago falling in love with that vibe. Rich black man went out because he chose to jump someone.