Brother in this video broke it down perfectly. It comes down to peer pressure. Black adults (aka, US) are asleep at the wheel and either let or actively participate in letting this shyt be seen as cool and acceptable. The kids are watching and they simply follow suit on what you are clearly valuing.
On the real folks just gotta start being mean on the peer pressure tip and calling out the street shyt as losers. Because long term, that's what it will make you. A broke opportunity lacking loser . People let clowns blab "square this, real nikka that" with no pushback in spite of being grown enough to know that majority of those trying to live that lifestyle leads to a broke, dead or freedomless person on average. That's a loser outcome, a middle age trucker will have gotten more enjoyment out of life than a person who spent 10% of his life "living the fast life" and 90% of it sitting in a cell or dead. But nikkas scared to say it because they scared to look uncool.
People let folks get in their head that being proud of real success makes them bougie or uppity while simultaneously giving a pass to hood rich antics of "stunting" aka waving money around in the faces of a select group of people you know are poorer than you.
The record labels and Adam22 types that promote this buffoonery don't care and will let you crash out for their entertainment. It's up to us to act on reality. You can get the biggest white boy rap fan on earth, I bet you he doesn't have a fraction of the respect for 21 Savage as he does for a swagless Bill Gates. Because he understands the levels to this shyt and no amount of gold trinkets, designer clothes or murdered opps is a bigger win than sitting on generational wealth.
I'm convinced it's the only thing that will work. Tell them how lame it is for them to be willing to throw their life away to impress other nikkas. Tell them the truth on how being hood rich is low hanging fruit that impresses broke bytches and crackheads. Tell them they're corny for having their values be decided by rappers. Be real that the ceiling of being a CEO/successful company founder is much higher than that of a rapper or athlete. Roger Goodell (NFL commissioner) makes 700 million per year, way more than the entire rosters of the black players folks look up to.
Or continue to be bytch ass followers and consumers of the poisonous "culture" cacs manufactured for you. I don't care, I'm not raising kids here anyway