Ice Cube says rap encourages criminal behavior

[ISO]

Well isn’t that obvious

 

[kt773]

its wild to see. Mr. i started this gangster shyt talking about the impact.

The thanks that he got wasn’t good enough

 

[Matt504]

Well isn’t that obvious

It should be but people have relationships with the art form that unfortunately cloud their ability to be objective.

Here's a video of rapper Future discussing how he was apprehensive about letting his fans know that he stopped abusing opioids.

 

[African Peasant]

Anything can influence anyone to an extent but people aren’t mindless drones who don’t have free will.

We are arguing about people being influenced. No one is talking about people being 'mindless drones'.

 

[Easy-E]

This here is the government holding corporations responsible for the Opioid crisis in America.

But, thecoli said it's Future's fault.

This is why the "Rap creates crime" will never make sense.

Again, I'll never argue for the mortality of the subject matter. But, c'mon, Rap causes crime?

McKinsey Settles for Nearly $600 Million Over Role in Opioid Crisis (Published 2021)

The consulting firm has reached agreements with 49 states because of its sales advice to drugmakers, including Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin.

www.nytimes.com

McKinsey Settles for Nearly $600 Million Over Role in Opioid Crisis​

The consulting firm has reached agreements with 49 states because of its sales advice to drugmakers, including Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin.

Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million in Landmark Opioid Trial
The first case against a drug manufacturer for the national public health disaster may indicate what lies ahead in 2,000 more lawsuits.

A judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled against Johnson & Johnson, the deep-pocketed corporate giant, and ordered it to pay the state $572 million in the first trial of an opioid manufacturer for the destruction wrought by prescription painkillers.

Johnson & Johnson, which contracted with poppy growers in Tasmania, supplied 60 percent of the opiate ingredients that drug companies used for opioids like oxycodone, the state had argued, and aggressively marketed opioids to doctors and patients as safe and effective. A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, made its own opioids — a pill whose rights it sold in 2015, and a fentanyl patch that it still produces.

“The opioid crisis is an imminent danger and menace to Oklahomans,” Judge Thad Balkman, of Cleveland County District Court, said in delivering his decision.

The landmark ruling was a resounding victory for Oklahoma’s attorney general, Mike Hunter. The closely watched case could be a dire warning for some two dozen opioid makers, distributors and retailers that face more than 2,000 similar lawsuits around the country. Johnson & Johnson, one the world’s biggest health care companies, said it would appeal.

“We’ve shown that J&J was at the root cause of this opioid crisis,”
said Brad Beckworth, the lead attorney for the state. “It made billions of dollars from it over a 20-year period. They’ve always denied responsibility and yet at the same time they say they want to make a difference in solving this problem. So do the right thing: come in here, pay the judgment.”

The judge’s decision came after two other drug manufacturers that produce opioids, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceutical, settled with Oklahoma earlier this year for $270 million and $85 million, respectively. In doing so, the companies did not admit wrongdoing. As a consequence, Oklahoma faced the steep climb of pinning the blame for its opioid crisis mainly on just one defendant.

The judgment against Johnson & Johnson represents a significant blow to a health care company that built its reputation as a family-friendly maker of baby products and consumer goods. In December, a jury in St. Louis found that Johnson & Johnson, which had sales of $81.6 billion last year, should pay $4.7 billion because its talc-based baby powder caused cancer in some consumers.

In a statement, Michael Ullmann, the general counsel and executive vice president of J&J, said: “Janssen did not cause the opioid crisis in Oklahoma, and neither the facts nor the law support this outcome. We recognize the opioid crisis is a tremendously complex public health issue and we have deep sympathy for everyone affected.”

Janssen, one of the largest manufacturers of brand-name drugs in the country, reported 2018 sales of $23.3 billion in the United States.

Oklahoma has suffered mightily from opioids. Mr. Hunter has said that between 2015 and 2018, 18 million opioid prescriptions were written in a state with a population of 3.9 million people. Since 2000, his office said, about 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses, with thousands more struggling with addiction.

 

[3rdWorld]

I'm not reading through this whole thread.. did anyone come in and shyt on Ice Cube yet and say rap has nothing to do with anything?

Hardly..
Most do admit it has a negative effect..though I suspect it's largely because the actual music made now sounds terrible and isn't worth defending.

 

[breakfuss]

This here is the government holding corporations responsible for the Opioid crisis in America.

But, thecoli said it's Future's fault.

This is why the "Rap creates crime" will never make sense.

Again, I'll never argue for the mortality of the subject matter. But, c'mon, Rap causes crime?

It’s a lame conservative/Christian-right talking point and has been for a while. Brehs in here slurping it up though The hysteria just moves from one genre of music to the next. Meanwhile nothing is being done to address actual gun laws or the scourge of broken homes in our community. Nah, none of that matters. Let’s listen to “brother Cube” mindlessly pontificate about the same shyt that made him rich.

 

[breakfuss]

Talk is cheap. Cube should give away all his accumulated wealth to black charities. He should also petition to have his catalog removed from streaming services. Or at least donate those royalties. It’s blood money according to him so it’s the only way to right the wrongs.

 

[ISO]

This here is the government holding corporations responsible for the Opioid crisis in America.

But, thecoli said it's Future's fault.

This is why the "Rap creates crime" will never make sense.

Again, I'll never argue for the mortality of the subject matter. But, c'mon, Rap causes crime?

What is this smart shyt?

Without hip-hop a little known cough syrup concoction that was not taken anywhere outside Texas would never have made it nationwide/worldwide.

Several rappers I'm talking some of today's biggest young mainstream rappers like Juice WRLD and A boogie are on record saying they started taking pills because of Future.

Hip-Hop can sell all types of things through brand placement cars, champagne, clothing brands, but can't influence people to do drugs

Future, Lil Wayne, and a host of others have been long running unpaid spokesmen for Actavis, Wockhardt, and various pharmaceutical companies.

 

[Matt504]

What is this smart shyt?

Without hip-hop a little known cough syrup concoction that was not taken anywhere outside Texas would never have made it nationwide/worldwide.

Several rappers I'm talking some of today's biggest young mainstream rappers like Juice WRLD and A boogie are on record saying they started taking pills because of Future.

Hip-Hop can sell all types of things through brand placement cars, champagne, clothing brands, but can't influence people to do drugs

Future, Lil Wayne, and a host of others have been long running unpaid spokesmen for Actavis, Wockhardt, and various pharmaceutical companies.

Juice WRLD on Calling Out Drake’s Baby Drama, Working With Future, and Kanye

“People can take it however they wanna take it, but I’m pretty sure Drake knows it’s a joke.”

www.vulture.com

 

[ISO]

Juice WRLD on Calling Out Drake’s Baby Drama, Working With Future, and Kanye

“People can take it however they wanna take it, but I’m pretty sure Drake knows it’s a joke.”

www.vulture.com

"Tryna keep it cool like the time I was in the studio with Future and his goons
Sittin' next to my favorite rapper, actin' scared to say it to him
Used to bump March Madness, poppin' Addys because of you"

 

[African Peasant]

Even neuroscientists are aware of the effect that music has on the brain.

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain.

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals:

• How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world
• Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre
• That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise
• How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our head

Good looks breh

 

[GoFlipAPack]

Music is very influential. The slaves had their hymns & negro spirituals… civil rights era had gospel & soul music… we got gangsta & drill

That’ll explain everything right there

Some of these folks don't want to admit that drill music/rap is an issue. If they had COINTELPRO why wouldn't they use hip hop as a way to infiltrate and destroy?

 

[ISO]

Some of these folks don't want to admit that drill music/rap is an issue. If they had COINTELPRO why wouldn't they use hip hop as a way to infiltrate and destroy?

Y'all still pushing conspiracy theories. This ain't COINTELPRO.

 

[Turk]

The shyt I hate about condos like this is folks acting like rap is all drill, murder, violence, etc. If you that's what you chose to consume that's on you but that's not the entire genre as a whole