We wanted to know what that case said about inner-city life and values.

Its potential impact on the quality of inner-city life goes far beyond issues of esthetics.

Cube and Tucker wanted to expose the funny side of inner-city life.

The distance shown toward this topic, he argues, presents an incomplete picture of inner-city life.

"I'd never been exposed to inner-city life before," she said.

"That they don't fit the stereotypes of inner-city life."

One issue for the rappers is how to stay connected to the source of their music - inner-city life.

Since the early 1980s when unemployment became a part of inner-city life, a new type of worker has appeared in many bureaux.

Finally, one journalist asked him if he was trying to cast an overly harsh light on inner-city life.

But in the grim context of today's inner-city life, what had worked so well earlier seems rudely out of place.