there is a popular belief emerging that Eazy was coerced into pushing the gangster lifestyle to the youth. The belief is that just like the CIA approached Freeway Rick Ross (the real one, not the fat, bearded actor from CB4 in Florida) to push a new form of cociane in the black community - crack.

Perhaps this started cause the music industry went from signing artists who were promoting afrocentrism and political activism...
to artists pushing the gangbanger life style, the dope boy lifestyle.

At this time, Private Prisons were on the rise, the war on Drugs was put into effect by previous CIA director now VP George Bush Sr.

Or it could have started by the infamous Vibe Magazine interview with Easy shaking hands with George Bush Sr. When asked about it.. he said that he was invited to a fundraiser - cause of course all emerging gangbanging, drug dealing on wax rappers are - especially by one of the most conservative presidents around who initiated the chain reaction/slave institution of the War on Drugs.

As a result, more and more people are likening NWA to a group of coons and sell outs who merely pushed the manual of death to the young black youth - whereas their contemporaries were headed in the opposite direction.

Now most record labels are offices - there are budgets, people have to sign off, there are emails and memos. There are meetings and professional with degrees in Marketing, Sales, Public Speaking etc.

First, what other artform has (since Eazy E) promoted... guns? Selling cocaine on wax? Explaining how to make crack? Promoted prison time like a badge of honor? Killing? With song titles like Black Nigga Killa... um...
With videos of black gangsters rolling around to kill others.

Add in the surge of gang initiations activities and areas that had no gang issues then, now populated with a wealth of them now.

I argue on a personal note - while we took great offense at the death of Trayvon Martin - why haven't we called a devil a devil in this case?

Lastly - there is a memo floating around on FB/Twitter - ya know - and while I don't think anyone can actually prove the letter authentic and while I personally think it's fake - it explains the details of a music exec in the 80's who were approached by higher ranking executives to meet with the CIA or CIA Types to do this very act in an effort to fund privatized prisons (something Bush Sr is apart of/Cheney too) and of course (heart tug) this would balance the American economy headed for the shitter.

*shrugs*

How do you feel about this?
Joke?
Serious?
Have no idea could care less?

Now East Coast - think of it this way - we went from calling one antoehr 'brother' and 'sister' to 'niggaz' and 'bitches'...
so what else did we change?