Rappers the Next Super Heroes?

The Guardian's excellent gamesblog has an editorial up discussing the role rappers and rap culture has taken in games. From the article: "Following Def Jam Vendetta and more pertinently Def Jam Fight for New York, this is another game that places real-life Hip Hop artists within a fictitious gangland setting. It's an interesting sub-genre, trading in on the mythologies that many rappers build around themselves in their lyrics, album art and endless feuds - fantasies of gun violence, rivalry and retribution."

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[Anonymous Coward]

I was told not to include black characters in a SNES game ten years ago, since they would be bad guys, hence not acceptable to be black. But *all* the characters (apart from the hero) were bad guys...