If you listen to the music that is released on clear channel stations, you don’t usually find any messages that will make you a better person. Instead, you hear about getting high, killing black people, disrespecting Black women and flat out ignorance. Too Short, in an interview with Hip-Hop DX a couple of years ago, says that this is no accident. He says that in the early 1990s, the record labels all started working together to keep positive and conscious music off the air. He also says that when he would try to go to the executives at Jive Records to ask to make positive songs, they would tell him no. He wanted to collaborate with E-40, and they told him no again. But he says that he was always given a green light to do the negative stuff. Short also says that he noticed in the early 90s that labels only wanted to sign artists with negative messages that were violent and disrespectful of women. Some think that it’s not a coincidence that during this exact same era in music history, black male prison populations started to skyrocket, and the companies building the prisons were getting rich. One industry insider even told us that the same companies that own the prisons own stock in the record labels. Is it a conspiracy or not? We’ll let you be the judge. But from looking at all the black men in prison today, the plan must have worked, even if it was by accident.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:14:31 +0000
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