Why do you care? You made an asinine statement and I responded to it. A 10 year old could tell you the crack era isn't over.
If you didnt live through the crack era and see the effect it had on the community then you cant accurately speak on it.
Your comparison of now to then reeks of trying to hard out of a desperation to relive times that werent worth reliving. It wasnt anything to glorify. When rap switched from being the hood news reporting it to millionaires and studio gangsters recording it Hip Hop lost it's authenticity.
If things are as bad as you want to make them out to be, pull up some stats on crime to prove it. OR if you're really about that hood life and in the streets, log off and go outside. shyt should be popping out there right now? Right?