The musical term that I immediately thought of when brainstorming ideas for this blog was rap. Now I know rap is still a popular music style and didn’t really know if it was around before I was born, but it was! Thinking of what to search alongside the term rap, I jumped right to the word “gang.” Now I know this could be seen as a racially driven statement, but my thought process was that when N.W.A. came to popularity things were not the best in south central Los Angeles. At first glance I was surprised because there seemed to be no correlation to the two; however, when I refined the results to 1950 to 2000, there seemed to be a direct steady rise and fall of the two words. However, when I included police, it seemed there was no relation between police and the other two terms. I am not sure what to make of this, and on the outside looking in I may not have thought that anything was really wrong, because I included violence, which also seemed to have no correlation to rap or gang.