who is "THEY" ....
like really mane...who is this "THEY" yall speak of??
you do realize all these pro black ARTISTS yall speak of were signed by the same MAJOR LABELS putting out the gangster , drill and trap rap yall so much despise
these Jews and Crakkkers whom have run these major labels for years WERE NEVER THREATNED BY PRO BLACK CONCIOUS MUSIC...
as long as it did numbers THEY WERE SELLING IT..............
PUBLIC ENEMY was signed to DEF JAM RECORDS
Brand Nubian was signed to Electra records which was part of the WARNER MUSIC GROP (warner..elektra..atlantic WEA)
X Clan was signed to MCA records...
PRT was signed to Profile Records which was like the "Koch Records" of the 80s..an independent label with strong retail ties with mom and pop stores and indy distributor networks
even BDP with Krs One was signed to Jive/RCA the home of R. Kelly and the Backstreet Boyz and Nsync
RECORD COMPANIES are about the bottom line period...just like when they signed Lauyrn Hill to put out one of the greatest black conscious records of all time MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL on SONY/COLUMBIA records
even PARIS the militant rapper from the bay area when he caught flack for his "DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT" video which was banned from MTV and eventually got dropped by TOMMY BOY/WARNER
he turned right around and found another "home" with Priority Records which at the time was being distirbuted by SONY
When his second album, Sleeping with the Enemy, was ready for release in 1992, Paris was dropped from now-defunct Tommy Boy Records (since rechristened Tommy Boy Entertainment in 2002) and distributor Warner Bros. Records, owned by Time Warner, when the parent company discovered its incendiary content, which included fantasy revenge killings of then-President Bush and racist police officers.
Paris signed a major artist and distribution deal with Priority Records for himself and Scarface Records in 1993
Once again who is "THEY" cause all i see is OUR PEOPLE not giving a fukk aboutrappers like P.E..BRAND NUBIAN and ATCQ
just today thier is a thread doing numbers basically dissing THE NATIVE TONGUES saying they "fake"..they "talk slick" and "ain't about that life" when they were beefing with rappers like Treach.....and Wrecks and Effect
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/native-tongues-stayed-catching-the-beats.753236/page-4#post-36136079
see IT'S US...OUR BLACK AZZES NEVER GAVE A DAMN ABOUT THE CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT LIKE THAT
mainly cause the HOES wasn't fukking with it
i remember the deejay i worked for at the station i interned at in 1990 promoting two shows scheduled to take place in our city ....
it was 2 LIVE CREW and RAKIM appearing in the same city yet at two different venues
GUESS WHICH CONCERT HAD THE MOST BUZZ AND THE MOST WOMEN...
u guessed it....
while the Rakim show was full of more white kids than black kids .....
we gotta hold ourselves accountable.....PRO BLACK MUSIC DIED...CAUSE WE DIDN'T APPRECIATE IT .....
ONCE THE WEST COAST GANGSTA RAP CAME IN along with NYC COKE RAP....
nobody wanted to hear THE COUP from the bay area with thier militant nationalist raps
or the BLACKWATCH MOVEMENT (XCLAN) from NYC with thier afrocentric themes anymore
so the labels FED WHAT THE MASSES OF BLACK FOLKS wanted in comercial music...SEX ...VIOLENCE AND DRUGS
No matter how small the audience is, as proud black men, you can't let history get erased by CACs and thots. You basically saying that it is cool to sell out beliefs just for a bit more $$$ and to get your dikk wet.
