Reggae sound bridging the gap

In Wyclef Jeans new song April showers, the Haitian reggae artist teamed up with rappers Troy Ave and Sedeck Jean to make a powerful statement on popular media especially in its relationship to African Americans growing up in the projects.  The chorus of the song starts with "Im just trying to trying to show a better way" and throughout the video Wyclef Jeans does just that as he tries to reach out the younger generation by using the plot line of a teenager growing up in today's society in poverty.  By using the phrase April showers bring may flowers, a phrase that everyone has heard Jean creates the genius metaphor of April showers being tears and flowers, both of which are associated with a funeral.  At the same time Jean directly addresses the reality in the n neighborhoods of the bringing of spring, not as a normally happy time full of cheer but a time of of increase murder as the weather gets hotter and people leave their homes and take to the street.  Up-incoming Rapper, Chance the Rapper address this same reality in his song "Dear Chicago Summer".  The most prevalent part of the video occurs at the begging as the video attributes the violent tendency of these adolescents not to their own stupidity or ignorance as Fox news would like you to believe but to entertainment media in the form of movies and Tv shows.  By showing that these kids are taught by the media repeatedly to kill over and over Jean makes a very politically based call to action.  The action is shown at the end of the video in a brilliant scene of a funeral but instead of burying another body they fill the casket with their guns.  This relationship between the dropping of arms and the downfall of the youth death serves as an ingenious rhetoric call to action that should not be ignored.  This topic will never be addressed in mainstream rap music as most will say putting your guns down is not the answer D.C.'s own Fat Trel flips this metaphor on its heads in his song "Rest in Peace'" by stating "too many niggas dead and gone so i'm never ever putting my guns down"  by using the fact of the high murder rate as reasoning to carry guns seems logical to most but Jean would have something else to say.