Ice Cube and others explain how record companies are using black artists to create a cultural narrative.
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This is an expose from rapper Krayzie Bone that is very powerful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ORPuH1-rU
It is about how the prison industrial complex paid off the music industry to eliminate uplifting rap and only have gangster rap, in hopes that it would encourage rap fans — who are mostly black — to commit crimes and wind up in their private prisons.
It exposes one small scheme of many happening today re: how the psychopaths exploit various groups in order to further their own financial goals. It also shows how easily manipulated people are.
Krazy bone from Bone Thugs in Harmony would absolutely know. They had some hit uplifting songs but never gained bigger popularity. My guess is because they wouldn’t conform to the narrative.
Bone Thugs (in particular, Krayzie) are/were the best of all. Absolute gold. I always wondered if Eazy-E’s connection to them ironically ended up hurting their career. Them and Public Enemy are my favorite of the genre. Public Enemy is what rap and hip-hop used to be in the late 80s/early 90s almost bordering on industrial music, insane and groundbreaking what they were doing with samplers. “Heavy Metal Hip Hop”