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Ice Cube: Hip Hop Was Engineered To Fill Up The Penitentiaries
Honestly would not be surprised. Think of the kind of rap that kids listen to these days and line it up with public interests. People talk about prisons being a drain on society, they don't realize the prisons are a money making machine assuming they keep the numbers up. Hell even the young rappers of today end up dead or in prison themselves!
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I don't believe this was the initial reason we created hip hop. I think the powers that be took over our stuff for their own nefarious reasons.
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The rap of today is toxic. The early days of rap was not like this.
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Professor Griff was all over this some time ago. Good to see it being reiterated with a new face
My view is that rap changed for the worst when the black independent labels sold their labels to the major white labels.
It was the independent black labels that gave us Public Enemy, KRS One, Queen Latifah, Poor Rightous Teachers and any one spitting positivity or talking about white supremacy. These acts got their start from Blacks at the labels. You had other types of rappers but they also had the aforementioned. Also, pretty much all the old school rappers had at least one song on their album addressing the black community. Yes, NWA glorified gang violence to some extent but it also had F*ck The Police which resonated coast to coast because there isn't a black man in America that hasn't had a racist cop profile him at the bare minimum.
Pretty soon after Def Jam, and the others were sold to white labels they stopped signing positive rappers and rappers with a social message.
That was the end of hip hop. When the decision making of who to sign went from Blacks who were from the streets and knew the streets to white boys with a secret agenda.
Hip hop went on a slow deterioration when 'we' sold it to white folks.
It was the independent black labels that gave us Public Enemy, KRS One, Queen Latifah, Poor Rightous Teachers and any one spitting positivity or talking about white supremacy. These acts got their start from Blacks at the labels. You had other types of rappers but they also had the aforementioned. Also, pretty much all the old school rappers had at least one song on their album addressing the black community. Yes, NWA glorified gang violence to some extent but it also had F*ck The Police which resonated coast to coast because there isn't a black man in America that hasn't had a racist cop profile him at the bare minimum.
Pretty soon after Def Jam, and the others were sold to white labels they stopped signing positive rappers and rappers with a social message.
That was the end of hip hop. When the decision making of who to sign went from Blacks who were from the streets and knew the streets to white boys with a secret agenda.
Hip hop went on a slow deterioration when 'we' sold it to white folks.
John_Smauel
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I agree with you! The white folks wanted to mold it into some weak word game crap. I mean look at it the facts they spoke then in the 90s and early 2000s were just on another level! Even if you were depressed as heck during a whole season you would get back up and going of you heard some pac, DXM or who ever was your favorite artist. But man the rap game rn is weak as heck no power to the folks only misguiding folks.
In rap you can verbally (story telling) kill as many blacks as you want. No limit on that. Blacks in rap have verbally shot each other 1000s of times.
Now, try saying you will kill a white person? Not allowed at all. There is a story that a rapper, could be Jay Z, can't recall, but the rapper was huge, big name and he had a rap about killing his white label boss if he didn't get his residuals and they made him take it out.
Let's say you had a rap about someone trying to jack you, or home invade you and you killed him. Real talk, would any label let that person be white? I guarantee you if he was a Black crack addict, you would not even think about a rapper not being able to kill him in a rap and there would be zero issues about it, but if the rapper said some white meth head was trying to home invade and he killed him, would that be allowed? . Is the energy to allow it the same? Maybe..its a maybe. And just because its a maybe tells you everything.
We are not allowed to story tell / rap lyrics kill anyone but ourselves and if we do, its going to be controversial or watered down. White rappers have 'murdered' blacks as well as whites on wax.
Now, try saying you will kill a white person? Not allowed at all. There is a story that a rapper, could be Jay Z, can't recall, but the rapper was huge, big name and he had a rap about killing his white label boss if he didn't get his residuals and they made him take it out.
Let's say you had a rap about someone trying to jack you, or home invade you and you killed him. Real talk, would any label let that person be white? I guarantee you if he was a Black crack addict, you would not even think about a rapper not being able to kill him in a rap and there would be zero issues about it, but if the rapper said some white meth head was trying to home invade and he killed him, would that be allowed? . Is the energy to allow it the same? Maybe..its a maybe. And just because its a maybe tells you everything.
We are not allowed to story tell / rap lyrics kill anyone but ourselves and if we do, its going to be controversial or watered down. White rappers have 'murdered' blacks as well as whites on wax.