Is there another genre of music out there whose fans are more responsible for the deaths of its artists? And just to clarify, I count any talentless hack who cant get a record contract and blows some artist away in a drive-by as a fan.
Rap fans, on the other hand, are the reason that hip-hop artists are about to be added to the endangered species list. More buildings have been destroyed by fire as a result of metal concerts than for any other reason in the history of mankind. The fires usually start after the emergency exits are so choked with dead metal-fan corpses that the women, children and Somali refugees are unable to escape. Not a single week goes by that I dont hear about some metal club or concert venue where show-goers are trampling each other at the entrance, at the exit, in line for the pisser, blasting each others junk in the mosh pit, or burning the building down where the show takes place.
Metal is leaps and bounds ahead of hip-hop when it comes to the extermination of its own fans. I dont believe there is one end-all way to answer this question and it depends greatly on what aspect of each genre you are measuring.
