Gangster rappers write rhymes about inner-city violence, sometimes as cautionary tales, sometimes as fantasies and sometimes as chronicles without comment.

Tupac Shakur, whose rap recordings sketch what he calls the "thug life" of inner-city violence, was charged on Sunday with shooting two off-duty suburban policemen.

Brown is the founder and president of the Amer-I-Can Foundation, which focuses on working with gangs to eliminate inner-city violence.

Many children said they were happy and relieved just to be able to get away from inner-city violence.

Mr. Wenner states, "Legalization would eliminate the inner-city violence associated with competitive drug dealing."

Or perhaps, Taylor, like a number of people who make their home in this country, is fed up with rising intolerance between ethnic groups, with inner-city violence and police brutality.

He should talk about inner-city violence and criminal justice, which was the subject of one of his best speeches, in Memphis in 1993.

Other lyrical themes included unemployment, inner-city violence, war, and slavish followers of fashion.

First, inner-city violence should be dealt with primarily as a crime problem, rather than as a symptom of poverty, poor schools, broken families and the like.

American movies shown here, with their shocking scenes of inner-city violence, rarely balance the portrait.