gangsta rap was probably a social engineering project intended to antagonize and divide urban populations with the rest based on their perceived anti-law and order pro-criminal cultural push. What's interesting are the kernels of truth that gangsta rap had picked up on at the beginning: the inappropriately harsh criminal sentencing against drug offenses leading to both the mass incarceration of young male blacks, as well as the political tool of militarizating law enforcement to show they're "tough on crime", not to mention the CIA off the books projects of facilitating the import and targeted distributions of certain narcotics in certain locations.
So yeah, who wouldn't scream "F*** the Police" if this is what they saw and lived?
But Cube and the rest probably didn't realize that as earnest as they were starting out, they had a cultural role to play (Tavistock style) that culminated in the L.A. Riots and constant racial tensions throughout the 90s that reversed so much progress from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
And then they all simply cashed in as they were pushed on the MtV and radio mainstreams, and suburban white youth accepted the manufactured irreverant spirit of gangsta rap from the 90s onward, without really sympathizing with the reasons the musical genre came about.
I have discussed how the "urban culture" protects their rights better than us "good citizens". They seem to resist everything that does not come with a warrant. A paradigm shift for me.
Thanks for that awesome summary. You my fren are blessed. As for me I lived through the riots. I was a young tadpole at the time but I remember it quite well. All the helicopters and burned buildings. But yes they had a role. But looking back on the whole stop and frisk policy who were the ones leading that push. Biden and his cronies? I lived in Long Beach Compton area. And I had a lot of friends of different backgrounds and we all got along. The media pushed all the hate then just like today.
gangsta rap was probably a social engineering project intended to antagonize and divide urban populations with the rest based on their perceived anti-law and order pro-criminal cultural push. What's interesting are the kernels of truth that gangsta rap had picked up on at the beginning: the inappropriately harsh criminal sentencing against drug offenses leading to both the mass incarceration of young male blacks, as well as the political tool of militarizating law enforcement to show they're "tough on crime", not to mention the CIA off the books projects of facilitating the import and targeted distributions of certain narcotics in certain locations.
So yeah, who wouldn't scream "F*** the Police" if this is what they saw and lived?
But Cube and the rest probably didn't realize that as earnest as they were starting out, they had a cultural role to play (Tavistock style) that culminated in the L.A. Riots and constant racial tensions throughout the 90s that reversed so much progress from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
And then they all simply cashed in as they were pushed on the MtV and radio mainstreams, and suburban white youth accepted the manufactured irreverant spirit of gangsta rap from the 90s onward, without really sympathizing with the reasons the musical genre came about.
Great comment. Spot on.
Cube's first group was, ironical, called "C.I.A.".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.I.A._(band)
I have discussed how the "urban culture" protects their rights better than us "good citizens". They seem to resist everything that does not come with a warrant. A paradigm shift for me.
Thanks for that awesome summary. You my fren are blessed. As for me I lived through the riots. I was a young tadpole at the time but I remember it quite well. All the helicopters and burned buildings. But yes they had a role. But looking back on the whole stop and frisk policy who were the ones leading that push. Biden and his cronies? I lived in Long Beach Compton area. And I had a lot of friends of different backgrounds and we all got along. The media pushed all the hate then just like today.