Ice Cube America’s Most Wanted Track 8 Endangered Species alludes to this conversation, and Hollywood’s birth of Gangster Rap by non-gangsters. Actually most of that album covers these issues. And Hollywood then making the lifestyle suddenly popular in the “hoods”.

Yes, Ice Cube made a ton of money being one of the OGs of Gangster Rap. But he was in fact a grandfather of it, and his music was all the passion and anger of how the ghettos, the poor were treated.

I’ve Cube’s music has never strayed though from the messsge of the plight of the ghetto, and Hollywood capitalizing off his and other real guys messages doing their rap.

Hollywood in turn created a new “popular” genre out of gangsters, to fake everything/everyone that came along after, all to make money for a few Elites. But still doing zero for the poor/ghettos; except stereotyping and popularizing gangster rap, drugs, pimps, hoes, and gang violence to make money.