The reason he IS so popular is because parents DONT like him. Pop music has been that way for years and years and years. And now daddy's who fought tooth and nail from their baby's buying the new NWA album pay $8.50 a ticker to go see the Ice Cube movie "Are we there yet". Its all about money, the man is in the entertainment industry. If the cash wasn't provided, he wasn't performing. Its as simple as that. All you holier than thou's act as if its so much more. Its a business, his tough guy image is just that, an image. Anyone growing up in the hood is gonna have some gang affiliations.