Don't discount academia and the controlled press. Controlled by whom?
Def Jam Recordings: Co-founded by Rick Rubin (who produced early hits for LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys) and Russell Simmons, this label played a massive role in popularizing hip-hop.
Industry Leaders: Managers and executives like Jerry Heller (who managed N.W.A.) and Lyor Cohen (former Def Jam CEO and Warner Music Group executive) helped build the corporate and operational frameworks of the rap industry.
Journalism: The late-90s hip-hop landscape was largely defined by Harvard undergraduates Jonathan Shecter and Dave Mays, who co-founded the definitive magazine The Source.
Even the rock movement was engineered.
https://www.scribd.com/document/240268235/Inside-the-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation
Country music isn't country for this reason.
Note the connection between Luciferian and black military ops. See Michael Aquino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Aquino
Don't discount academia and the controlled press. Controlled by whom?
Def Jam Recordings: Co-founded by Rick Rubin (who produced early hits for LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys) and Russell Simmons, this label played a massive role in popularizing hip-hop.
Industry Leaders: Managers and executives like Jerry Heller (who managed N.W.A.) and Lyor Cohen (former Def Jam CEO and Warner Music Group executive) helped build the corporate and operational frameworks of the rap industry.
Journalism: The late-90s hip-hop landscape was largely defined by Harvard undergraduates Jonathan Shecter and Dave Mays, who co-founded the definitive magazine The Source.
Hip hop was and is good stuff. but as for Rap? Death Row Records has a lot to answer for.
Fresh Prince of Baal Air
Mark Devlin wrote a great series of books on this topic, Musical Truths. Well worth the read.