MicIsGod
They like what that mean
Never underestimate white supremacy. Conscious music was popular and making money at a time. It is not anymore because they made it that way. Marketing controls everything, and even more now in the algorithm era
Jeezy exposes record labels for intentionally paying young, traumatized rappers millions to rap about killing each other,
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We were all supposed to just enjoy the word plays, street rap battles, friendly banters and then go home to live normal lives while being productive members of society.
But some people just never went back home...
But some people just never went back home...
Bigblackted4
Superstar
But now you’ve emboldened everybody to think rapping(and doing the killing) is the way to get paid.but they do it for free
jilla82
Veteran
You are giving white people too much credit.
ive been around a lot of white people in elite social classes...
they arent all geniuses.
white people arent a monolithic group that work together in tandem.
re: conscious music making money...
are you talking about the early 90s during the X era?
The "streets" wasnt bumping that shyt like that...
it was basically hip hop heads and white boys.
Im old enough to remember white folks (and some older black groups) trying to stop the violent and raunchy music and black folks calling them racist for doing so...
now yall are saying these same white people want this perverse music to spread?
Bigblackted4
Superstar
Cube, Krayzie Bone, Meek, and others have said the same thing:
Illuminatos
#OVOXO
Yeah cause that's what the "streets" want to listen to. These guys don't get label attention until they're buzzing in their local area.
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
Jeezy isn't the same dude he was 20 years ago. He's grown up.
That's what people refuse to accept. That reminds me of that Jay-Z line where he says, "People look at you strange, sayin' you changed, like you worked that hard to stay the same".
It's almost like people get mad when they see these dudes grow up and change the way they think. We've seen enough interviews with the vultures admitting that they make money off of these dudes speaking on killing each other. They don’t care about the community because they don’t come from it. It's not their community. They got people brainwashed into thinking it's cool to clown the older rappers for speaking out against sh*t that we all know is true. It's wild.
Dude ain't supposed to be damn near 50 speaking the same way he did 20 years ago. He's changed the way he's supposed to. There's no way people are this dumb.
That's what people refuse to accept. That reminds me of that Jay-Z line where he says, "People look at you strange, sayin' you changed, like you worked that hard to stay the same".
It's almost like people get mad when they see these dudes grow up and change the way they think. We've seen enough interviews with the vultures admitting that they make money off of these dudes speaking on killing each other. They don’t care about the community because they don’t come from it. It's not their community. They got people brainwashed into thinking it's cool to clown the older rappers for speaking out against sh*t that we all know is true. It's wild.
Dude ain't supposed to be damn near 50 speaking the same way he did 20 years ago. He's changed the way he's supposed to. There's no way people are this dumb.
jilla82
Veteran
Black folks were in the streets defending the violent music 
If you still believe that the imagery they choose to highlight, is in your best interests, then I wish you the best lolits 2025 and folks still believe in the "record labels force black men to make vulgar music" conspiracy
The people want violence so it makes money...
its that simple.
Jeezy is just trying to come off as deep talking to a preacher.
BK The Great
Veteran
After that Diddy doc he’s sure getting a bunch of “promotion”
Plankton
Superstar
C Delores Tucker was right
C Deloris Tucker was not a real example of moral standard. We need to stop with this false narrative that she was. She got exposed when Interscope sued Time Warner and C Deloris Tucker for interfering with their contractual arrangement. Tucker was a puppet for the right wing conservatives at Time Warner who failed an attempt to position herself getting into the music business in the guise of speaking out against gangster rap. Tucker was willing to do a deal with the Suge Knight to position herself, which means she was willing to compromise herself in order to get in the music business.
Patrick Kane
Veteran
Jeezy rapped about killing nikkas and flooding his neighborhoods with drugs for decades and made his millions. Now he grown and sexy and gets a pass? Nah Jeezy was on this shyt too and inspired thousands of YNs to “trap or die”.
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I'll never shyt on a civil rights icon.
And yes she was right in her thoughts regarding gangsta rap at the time.
Do i believe her or Suge....
Anti-Rap Crusader Under Fire
C. DeLores Tucker gained fame by condemning gangsta music. Now one of her targets, Death Row Records, is questioning her motives. She denies the allegations.
www.latimes.com