>
>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.
>


Everybody acts like George Bush called Eazy E up and invited him to the White House. I'm pretty sure it didn't happen that way. It was PROBABLY a case of them looking at a list of people who made a SHITLOAD of money in 1988 ( or whatever year it was ), and going for the shakedown. So I'm thinking that they saw "Eric Wright, Small business owner from Los Angeles, California made XX Million Dollars in Fiscal Year 1988". And then they subsequently shit their pants when Gangsta Rapper Eazy E showed up. But at THAT point, fuck it. He bought a $10,000 ticket, and his money is just green as Donald Trump's is, Right?

so yeah. That's probably a more realistic view of things.

>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.

Ennh. That's kind of a ham-fisted view of it. For the record, I HATED NWA and everything they stood for. I thought they made some EXTREMELY irresponsible records. But I don't know about calling them coons and sell-outs. They didn't embarrass me as some artists do today. I just hated the fact that they were selling the "Hood Lifestyle" like that's all there was to Black People. (And as far as sell outs? Today there's WAAAAY more 'selling out' than ever. THAT'S the biggest difference.) I guess my biggest problem with NWA is how they set fire to the building and walked away while it burned. Meaning, they invented this shit, and take NO responsibility for it. They got rich and moved to the suburbs, and I read somewhere how Ice Cube won't let his kids listen to Hip-Hop, yet he and his group did untold damage to a generation of Black Children with their music. Now he's making kids movies and coming off as America's Sweetheart. He went to college, yet at the same time was talking that "reality from the streets" bullshit. Now, I'll own up to it, and admit that I think Ice Cube is one of the greatest rappers of all time. There's not much debate there. And I admit to liking some of his solo material. BUT. As a grown man I knew it was all wordplay and braggadocio. Kids who were exposed to all that Gangsta shit didn't know any better. THAT'S where the problem lies.

>
>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.
>

not sure how that comes into play...

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