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Rap/hip hop music at bars, clubs causes nothing but violence, crime.

Rap/hip hop, known also as the violent gang music, draws the wrong crowds causes problems including crime, and belongs in East St. Louis.

Rap/hip hop has been spreading like a cancer throughout our nightlife atmosphere the past several years. Even today, several bars have been having "hip hop" bands on certain nights of the week. Those same bars have had nothing but problems with fights, with 75% of the crowd being involved in many cases, and even shootings. Rap/hip hop bands, including the notoriously violent Poetz group, have been spreading violence all over Southwest Florida, including at over a dozen different bars and restaurants throughout Lee County.

For those who aren't aware, rap, also known as hip hop, is in fact that violent gang music with all the profanity and yelling and promotions of gangs and illegal drugs.

Us Southwest Floridians are tired of all that violent music at our bars and nightclubs. You want to party to rap/hip hop, go do it in East St. Louis, Illinois. Bands, including this Poetz gang, if rap/hip hop is your genre to play at bars, go find bars in East St. Louis to play your violent music.

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In the meantime, party people of Southwest Florida, you want live music at your bars and restaurants, get some classic rock (70s, 80s, 90s) and old school R&B music and some old school country playing bands to play live music at our bars and restaurants.

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