Is the influence hip hop has on our teens and young adults today, okay?

Many rappers today, who are popular, write and heavily include references to “gettin’ money”, smoking weed, “sippin’ the Purple Drank”, “poppin’ pain killers”, and many more.

I have seen what these do to people, and I have gone down a road which my D.A.R.E. officer wouldn’t be proud of. The first time I tried “Purple Drank” (cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine) was after someone told me that it was the drink Weezy (Lil’ Wayne) was always rapping about. Other examples are of people I know saying that they wanted to feel the feeling they heard about in this song.

A new rapper Macklemore came out with a song against drug use, and yet he isn’t nearly as popular as these artists who are all about hard drugs. Is this okay?