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So on another thread tonight I was searching for an article that got scrubbed from the internet and that led to somebody being a dick. Then a reader of mine emailed me a scan version of it she had saved on her hard drive.
Kismet.
Posting tomorrow, gotta do some screenshots.
Kismet.
Posting tomorrow, gotta do some screenshots.
I will be getting to this shortly. Lots of screensnips incoming. My reader who sent me the scan version of the scrubbed article i needed wishes to remain anonymous. But so cool to get it that way and proof I am not doing all this in vain.
Okay, here we go. I want to give a shout-out, again, to my reader who was eagle-eyed, saw I was getting dragged by an a-hole because I couldn't produce a scrubbed article in 12 milliseconds, and retrieved a copy from his/her hard drive. Not that he'll appreciate this, but, I DO.
This will be delivered in a series of screen captures of a PDF download because the original article was "disappeared" from the Internet the very same week some likely related criminal cases started hitting the new. (WOW! HOW CONVENIENT!)
Give me a bit to post manually.
Give me a bit to post manually.
Here is an archived link of the original posting which is a couple years old, and may not come up for you. (I had it stored in my cache so it did for me, but if it doesn't, read the screenshots)
http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html?m=1
http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html?m=1
Mind you, this personal testimonial would be considered hearsay, but it does corroborate some better sourced info I found in other, vetted publications (including a book-length analysis of rap history, inclusive of primary sources, which I will put at the end of this thread).
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Okay, so if you need corroboration of this testimonial with better source vetting, I have some of that too.
First off, here is a master's dissertation (I erroneously called it PhD yesterday), which studied the history of rap indepth, inclusive of record-industry internal memos, and pages 50-54 support the above testimonial, circumstantially speaking.
https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:181781/datastream/PDF/view
https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:181781/datastream/PDF/view
You can read the whole thing if you want, or go straight to pages 50-54 and consider it in the context of the larger picture, inclusive of Ice Cube's rather interesting Middle Eastern criminal friends and kidnapping/ransom case. Your call.
Somebody yesterday pointed out how Cube's recent weird Internet messaging mirrors Louis Farakkhan.
About that. It does. For a reason.
About that. It does. For a reason.
For those of you who have trouble connecting dots, I'll do it for you:
1. Black Cube messaging hidden within anti-Semitic trope
2. Dirty mob/$$ laundering deals running thru Qatar
3. Urban mob violence burning down cities in 2020 fanned in part by targeted SOCMED messaging.
1. Black Cube messaging hidden within anti-Semitic trope
2. Dirty mob/$$ laundering deals running thru Qatar
3. Urban mob violence burning down cities in 2020 fanned in part by targeted SOCMED messaging.
4. Urban mob violence in 1992 fanned in part by targeted musical messaging
5. Dirty mob types showing up at record-industry meetings in 1991 strong-arming a shift towards criminal messaging (see 1992)
6. Same messaging popping up 30 years apart
7. Cubes like, everywhere?
5. Dirty mob types showing up at record-industry meetings in 1991 strong-arming a shift towards criminal messaging (see 1992)
6. Same messaging popping up 30 years apart
7. Cubes like, everywhere?
Internal record-industry memos/data (Soundscan, etc) corroborating the testimonials of intentional shift towards criminal messaging and the related evidence on the ground.
And that pesky Middle Eastern money-laundering thing, and more crime.
And that pesky Middle Eastern money-laundering thing, and more crime.
Racial division messaging in the midst of all of that 1992 business, I'm seeing it pop up in 2020 as well:
Notice I ended that last snip on Suge Knight.
What happened to him? Here's a reminder: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/suge-knight-lawsuit-death-row-records-lydia/2321292/
What happened to him? Here's a reminder: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/suge-knight-lawsuit-death-row-records-lydia/2321292/
Murder, threats, theft, and (likely) money laundering around Suge Knight, too? YOU DON'T SAY.
Old story, from 1996, but the feds have had their eyes on the mob's ties to rap/hip-hop for a LONG time.
When did Tupac Shakur get murdered? Also in 1996? HOW ABOUT THAT??!!! https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-12-30-1996365087-story.html
When did Tupac Shakur get murdered? Also in 1996? HOW ABOUT THAT??!!! https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-12-30-1996365087-story.html
The "people from Compton can't possibly be mob" chestnut?
Where have I heard that one before? Was that just on my thread from somebody _the other day_?
Heh. Get new messaging for your trolling, dudes. The ones you're using are from the 90s.
Where have I heard that one before? Was that just on my thread from somebody _the other day_?
Heh. Get new messaging for your trolling, dudes. The ones you're using are from the 90s.
Peace out.
And here's a semi-tangential dude, who factors into Mob/Black Cube/Qatar/Current Shitshow at an angle.
The dude who holds the purse strings to all of rap/hip-hop is THIS guy. Read thru is bio see his very interesting and shady looking bunch of friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyor_Cohen
The dude who holds the purse strings to all of rap/hip-hop is THIS guy. Read thru is bio see his very interesting and shady looking bunch of friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyor_Cohen
A lot of those same said friends are popping up around things like:
NXIUM
YouTube/Google/related racist SOCMED messaging
Money laundering
Mob
Qatar
NXIUM
YouTube/Google/related racist SOCMED messaging
Money laundering
Mob
Qatar
So. This takes a lot of time and effort for me to assemble, for free. It does not happen in milliseconds. It's not even easy to do in any case, let alone with a house full of kids.
Think about that the next time you're tempted to troll me right in the middle of this work.
Think about that the next time you're tempted to troll me right in the middle of this work.
Additional reading, if the mood strikes you (a few articles and books) https://www.complex.com/music/2015/06/mafia-culture-influence-on-rap-music/
This book in particular is very interesting in how it examines the criminal corp-enterprise takeover of an art form: https://books.google.com/books/about/Thug_Life.html?id=a3bIlG3lrswC
Please excuse typos, I'm dancing as fast as I can. I'm sure some ppl will still complain I'm not fast enough.
As the kids say, Bruh.
As the kids say, Bruh.
Addendum: How many great hiphop artists outside the gangsta realm did we never get to hear from (or _died_!) because mobsters took over an entire genre for crime reasons?
It's happened before, too. Tragic. Read up on this great artist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke
It's happened before, too. Tragic. Read up on this great artist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke
