If I wanted to be get rich in the music business, I would put my money in the most lucrative part...the record label. Now that I own a major record label, I'm gonna find out how I can make profits on my money as quick and as effective as possible. So I do my research and find that negative topics like racism, controversy, and violence are not only the top picks, but people are actually force fed this stuff on a daily basis through TV and radio.
Now I must find a good way of distributing those topics, without taking any responsibility for its adverse effects on families, cultures, and lifestyles. What better way than through music? Wasn't Satan the angel in charge of music when he was in heaven? Nevermind that, thats another topic. Anyway, I will hire people and call their group A&R, whose sole responsibility is to be the link between staying oppressed in the hood or being handed keys to a brand new Bentley. All they need to do for me in return is deliver my message so I can get my money back.
Im sure that by now, most of you have figured out where this is going so I will stop there. The important question is, "Do you know that I have created a never ending loop of reaching your children and when they grow up I will reach their children and so on and on?" Do you also realize that in my position, I can dictate what your kids do? I can tell them what clothes to get and how to wear them, I can even make it cool to wear them half way down their arse. I can tell them what sneakers are hot, what the best drug on the street is and so on?
In some ways I have more power over your children than you do. Do you trust me with that power? Ofcorse not! You have to educate your kids. You have to break this never ending loop that I have placed on your child's life. Teach them to be conscious of any message good or bad, the rest will take care of itself.
There are a lot more things involved here but you get the message. Nothings wrong with hip hop or any other genre, its certain aspects that tarnish the entire culture. IMO, hip hop hasn't represented the streets since it went mainstream. Mainstream flipped it on us...now the streets reflect what hip hop is doing and thats sad when it's controlled by cats that care absolutely nothing about you as a person other than having their hands in your pockets.
Now I must find a good way of distributing those topics, without taking any responsibility for its adverse effects on families, cultures, and lifestyles. What better way than through music? Wasn't Satan the angel in charge of music when he was in heaven? Nevermind that, thats another topic. Anyway, I will hire people and call their group A&R, whose sole responsibility is to be the link between staying oppressed in the hood or being handed keys to a brand new Bentley. All they need to do for me in return is deliver my message so I can get my money back.
Im sure that by now, most of you have figured out where this is going so I will stop there. The important question is, "Do you know that I have created a never ending loop of reaching your children and when they grow up I will reach their children and so on and on?" Do you also realize that in my position, I can dictate what your kids do? I can tell them what clothes to get and how to wear them, I can even make it cool to wear them half way down their arse. I can tell them what sneakers are hot, what the best drug on the street is and so on?
In some ways I have more power over your children than you do. Do you trust me with that power? Ofcorse not! You have to educate your kids. You have to break this never ending loop that I have placed on your child's life. Teach them to be conscious of any message good or bad, the rest will take care of itself.
There are a lot more things involved here but you get the message. Nothings wrong with hip hop or any other genre, its certain aspects that tarnish the entire culture. IMO, hip hop hasn't represented the streets since it went mainstream. Mainstream flipped it on us...now the streets reflect what hip hop is doing and thats sad when it's controlled by cats that care absolutely nothing about you as a person other than having their hands in your pockets.
