Can music influence stereotypes, racism, and discrimination

The music tells a story of struggle that most people face living in the inner cities and third world countries. When we think about big city what comes to mind? For most of us we think about Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Florida, St Louis, New Orleans, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Brazil, and Cancun; the glamor, the fame, famous people, bright lights, and the cities sites. But no one really thinks about the inner city (the ghettos, barrios, or slums.)
I would rather listen to someone expressing themselves within a song because I can consist, to the realities of what goes on there for the fact that I have lived it. Growing up in an environment where it promotes violence, discrimination, racism, stereotypes, and poverty.
Witnessing women prostituting themselves on the streets to support a habit; to obtain a means of and income to feed themselves or their child(ren), is it done out of desperation or pain which some my have faced at an early age by either being abuse mentally, physically violated by a man, men or a loved one. Some families who live in housing projects live in conditions that our inhumane; such as having no running water, no source of heat during the winter, and no air conditioner during the hot summer days, only a box fan seating on a base of the window seal. How would you feel, if you seen roach crawling out of a cereal box, or rats running around freely, would you eat the food? As you walk to school the constant, feelings of alertness as you look behind your back in fear of your own safety being violated, sometimes you see people getting murdered or killing themselves by using drugs such as heroin, meth, PCP (embalming fluid) or crack. The feelings of hopelessness sink in as some may not have either a mother or a father in their life, to show them direction to give them love and support so they look else were to fill that void in life, through gangs that can lead to a life of crime, anti-social personality disorder, conduct disorder, death, or even prison. Another factor is distrust for authority based on being harassed and oppressed by police by way of racial profiling. The factor that most don’t see is a need for a quality education for the youth, because most inner city schools get funding based statistic test scores with in there state.
The historic factors of America define its existence as not being so welcoming. The Civil War was fought to abolish slavery under the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, which he signed the Emancipation proclamation. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the round up of Japanese Americans by placing them into consecration campus. During the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery Alabama televised acts of cruelty as police and firefighters use fire hoses and German Sheppard dogs to control a non violence protest that were mostly children. The use of small pox virus on blankets; used as a biological weapons against Native American Indians. As a super power to the world or a capitalist state we think more about what money we can make rather than the benefit of its people putting ethics and moral values to the side; such as using third world countries for their natural resources such as in Brazil with the deforestation of the Amazon rain-forest or using export embargo's such as food. I am glad that I have the freedoms that I have as American, but at what cost do he have to endure the suffering of it people for the freedoms that we have not only here in America but overseas as well.