i use to get money from a certain street cat whom is in a halfway house right now to deejays in strip clubs and hip hop venues during the late 90s and early 2000's throughout the deep south...my particular region was jaxsonville florida to myrtle beach where i met my ex fiance trying to bribe..ahem i mean persuade a deejay during black bike week to play a particlar single our "street promotions" team was pushing....
and when we didn't wanna provide cash...drinks....jewelry and byatches would suffice..and we were the "good guys' in the game...
cause OTHER crews whom i wont name would resort to more AGGRESSIVE TACTICS....
and this ain't nothing new....
Clive Davis had been forced to resign from CBS because the allegations of "cocaine payouts" to deejays at various urban radio stations had been so strong....
even Farrakhan had addressed it in a 80's speech on the industry which was later sampled by Public Enemy on IT TAKES A NATION lp..
"you dope pushers ..using your fame as a DJ to sell DRUGS!!!'.....- LOUIS FARRAKHAN....
even meech commented on how thin the lines were between deejay culture and drug culture....because he was a deejay himself prior to his street infamy...
and it wasnt limited to one region.....Frankie Crocker of WBLS which basically gave rap music it's start on commercial radio was constantly under investigation for Payola.......
which mad sense considering Frankie didn't even like rap music...but his association with the Genovese backed Robinson family of Sugarhill records enabled RAPPERS DELIGHT to have it's debut on Frankie Crocker's watch in NYC...
in fact many of the deejay associations such as the Aphilliates and CORE deejays as well as record pools were in cahoots more with GANGSTERS than the rappers themselves...because at the end of the day DEEJAYS always held the most power...while rappers were just expendable...
Cadillac Records the movie covers that greatly when they show how Muddy Waters record company boss was paying off guys like Alan Reed one of the first disc jocks to play black artists during the segregation era which validates why not only hip hop culture but BLACK ENTERTAINMENT period is so tied into the UNDERWORLD..simply cause mainstream america wasnt accepting of it...so it had to go thru alternative channels that happened to be controled by MOBSTERS.....
But if you wanna rap, and speak to a person's soul then you need to be with it. You don't need to be a gangster, but crime is inevitable. Because speaking your mind can be a crime, talking revolution is a crime, speaking out against oppression is a crime. People also wanna hear someone who really from the mud, not some bum who had it good and is a political hack. That's why Chance ain't hip hop.
Tina fey is the client of superagent Michelle Bohan whom works for the Genovese Mafia family created William Morris Agency.....
Props for sharing this info fam.
