In general, I tihnk it is none of anyone elses buisiness. If you are recording for $$ and you get the chance to record a gangbanger type who raps about drugs, beeotches, guns, and killing people, so what. It's only artistic expression. Record him and take his money. 99.9% of them are just posers anyway, and the 1/10 of 1% that really IS a gang banger wouldn't want to do business with a non banger anyway.
it's your choice of course. I just don't think that the material being recorded should have any influence on taking the job or not.
If you don't want to record them, send them over here.
I've rapped and recorded/written/produced raps and rappers for a while now.
I don't see many people looking down on episodes of NBC's "Law and Order," even though the first event in the show is usually a rape/homicide... The next time you turn on your TV set think about what's happening. Most of it is senseless glamorized violence.
Do you really think Stephen King, Clive Barker, or H.P. Lovecraft commit the treacheries that they write about? They even write in the first person...
It's entertaining. Send 'em over here... I can use the business.
As for packing heat... Of course I do. I have weapons everywhere. God forbid anything happened here. Every studio owner should pack heat, right? I try to use a .22 for indoors because it won't go through the walls and kill the neighbors... I'm fairly certain I will never have to use it.