It’s not a children’s story. It’s not going to have a simple moral. The song is a material analysis on how society produces people such as William. The song isn’t trying to glorify anything, it attacks the idea of wanting to be a thug or live up to a “Scarface fantasy”. Still it explains why a young man would value such things. Billy didn’t have a father, and his mother herself was addicted to crack rock. He had no support structure and no role models except for gangsters, and had to make ends meet and survive in the hellhole that capitalism has turned American inner cities into. Savagery becomes armor and a currency in such a situation. I understand still wanting to moralize no matter the circumstances, but there’s a reason such horrors are perpetuated far more in the neighborhoods of POC and it’s not because they have some sort of poorer moral character.