Piff Perkins
Veteran

Let me kick the only jewel you need to know about the music industry: the only rules revolve around following the market and making as much as money as you can. This idea that dudes are sitting around the offices wondering "how can we destroy the black man" is ridiculous.
NWA was Dre's idea. He changed his image and adopted the gangster shyt because it was clear that shyt was beginning to get hot in Cali. He got the biggest gangster he knew (Easy) and the rest is history. What exec would turn down a dope as group as NWA? Of course they got signed, of course they blew up - they were hot.
Here's what happened next: everyone wanted their own NWA. The music industry is all about copying success. One guy or group comes up with an idea ("let's sign NWA") and then everyone else wants their own [insert artist]. Remember when Kanye blew and then all of a sudden everyone was trying to sign their own conscious mainstream rapper? Lupe gets signed, Rhymefest gets a shot, later Kid Cudi shows up, etc. That's how the industry works and always will work.
I've been in meetings and watched loser A&Rs do presentations about the next Eminem, the next 50, etc. There is no originality, nor is the head exec sitting around saying "but how can we sell the youth alcohol and drugs with this artist?" There is no conspiracy outside of the free market, brehs.








