Waxpoetics' 'music industry confession' - Hip hop lizard people funtimes

[rootlesscosmo]

can someone sum this up for me pls?





I skipped the opening post (too long).





and the posts that follow make no sense.





thx.

 

[Dawhud]

Private companies that own prisons had the music industry push gangster rap so there would be more people in jail so they could make more money.

 

[volumen]

Yea, because the general public is in no way obsessed with sex, violence and crime so they had to create music that would encourage such behavior. Prior to 1990 we were all pussy cats.





Which came first the chicken or the egg?








Oh yea, and the music industry has a clue what it's doing other than riding artists coat tails.

 

[Dawhud]

Also, why would it just be focusing on hip hop and not other genres? If the bottom line is to have higher prison populations I would think they would have also wanted to push more violent music in other genres, like some ICP type bullshit. In fact ICP is an example of HOW the music industry saw a large devotion of fans, but thought the music was TOO harsh and watered it down to the mass market. (i.e. Limp Biscuit, Korn and other Rap/Metal bands of the early 00s)

 

[leon]

Little did they know this evil-breeding hiphop would find huge audiences in foreign countries, filling peniteniaries all over the globe with hiphop-lovers-turned-evil.

 

[leon]

 

[Yemsky]

[media]http://player.vimeo.com/video/42213455[/media]

 

[dj_cityboy]

Yemsky said:[media]http://player.vimeo.com/video/42213455[/media]

 

[Sunfade]

edit: didn't see second page

 

[Rockadelic]

At the same time there was a Country Music conspiracy that involved beer, trucks, DWI's, ventriloquists, mind control, sex slaves, politicians and Bob Hope.

 

[edulus]

also, it's just cheaper to get laws changed so that you have more felonies than to do something like this that would be dubious in its efficacy, at best.

 

[Dawhud]

"Worldstarhiphop" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[prof_rockwell]

DocMcCoy said:Funny how Time Warner pretty much immediately caved in to government and media pressure over that whole Cop Killer business (and yes, I'm aware that Cop Killer isn't actually a rap record) about a year after this meeting is supposed to have taken place. Some conspiracy.




If I recall correctly, Time Warner didn't cave, Ice-T voluntarily pulled that song off the album. Time Warner was actually backing up his right to free speech. Ice-T/Body Count distributed copies of the single for free at shows after that.