Lush (Lush One)

Keep in mind.

I'm not even using a chat GPT yet.

I haven't even looked to it.

There's specific, there's a name of a specific operation that the government had to take down the Panthers.

There was a specific operation and it was mainly based on changing their public perception and causing dissemination within their ranks and

Yes.

Do you believe that the popularization of gangster rap was somewhat of a deliberate thing that was going to cause certain negative effects in the black community?

Do you think that that was deliberately done?

Okay, and bearing in mind that whatever the repercussions are, if there are certain ones that are negative to the community, but they are beneficial to the labels on a financial level, it might even be more advantageous, right?

no that's just that's just how it is the long-term effects this is the long-term effects of the popularization and the dump of a certain genre and the dumbification that's just the preferences of the people but but what's crazy and there are tons of examples that are examples that go in the other direction most popular rapper in the world right now and there is absolutely nothing there's nothing within the music industry that tried to thwart him in any way

But because there always has to be, if you look historically, no matter what, there's going to be one mainstream artist that they allow or a few that they allow to get through.

I mean, for sure.

And look, of the quote-unquote big three, two of them make very, very conscious music and the majority of Drake's music.

At the time, first of all, Public Enemy was way more popular than N.W.A.

at first.

When N.W.A.

dropped straight out of Compton...

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy was smacking them on the charts.

They could barely even get distribution nationally for Ruthless Records at that point.

It was the whole way that music culture changed.