Ice Cube: Hip Hop Was Engineered To Fill Up The Penitentiaries

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Cube is a legend but sadly he turned out to be a clown.

He (along with NWA) was the face of negativity in rap....I'm not even holding that against him because #1 he was a teenager and #2 there was no way to know how big gangsta rap would become.

However, after distancing himself from it and changing up his content ("Death Certificate", etc.) he went back to goofy, over the top gangsta shyt with that Westside Connection nonsense. Which I've always criticized, since day 1.

But now he wants to enlighten people, after he made his money off the very thing he's criticizing. Clown shyt.

Fred.

:jbhmm: I STRONGLY DOUBT CUBE KNEW
THE MEDIA CONGLOMERATES OWNED THE
PRIVATE PRISONS WHEN HE DID THOSE THINGS.

HES CLEARLY TELLING WHAT HAPPENED
TO HIM AND HOW HE WAS MANIPULATED
INTO GOING ALONG WITH THE PLAN
NOT KNOWING THESE PPL WERE INVESTED
IN THE PRISON SYSTEM.

NOW THAT HE HAS NEW INFORMATION,
HES DISQUALIFIED FROM EVER SPEAKING ON THE TRUTH?

YOU DUDES SOUND CRAZY.
:devil:
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i love the first westside connection album but i think thats around the time (1995) when cube saw the dollar signs and sold his soul

perhaps he saw it as inevitable after lethal injection, his first dud
 

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:jbhmm: I STRONGLY DOUBT CUBE KNEW
THE MEDIA CONGLOMERATES OWNED THE
PRIVATE PRISONS WHEN HE DID THOSE THINGS.

HES CLEARLY TELLING WHAT HAPPENED
TO HIM AND HOW HE WAS MANIPULATED
INTO GOING ALONG WITH THE PLAN
NOT KNOWING THESE PPL WERE INVESTED
IN THE PRISON SYSTEM.

NOW THAT HE HAS NEW INFORMATION,
HES DISQUALIFIED FROM EVER SPEAKING ON THE TRUTH?

YOU DUDES SOUND CRAZY.
:devil:
:evil:



Ice Cube was 27 when he made Westside Connection

Was all that gangsta shyt really necessary at 27 years old?

The label made him do it?
 

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At 27, you're making conscious choices on how to feed your family.

I don't wanna hear the label made me do it.

I'm not against the art. But stand on what you made.

WOULD HE HAVE DONE IT
IF HE KNEW THE LABEL OWNED THE PRISON?

THATS THE ONLY THING
YOU SHOULD BE ADDRESSING


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Early Cube was very young and was really just reporting South LA life. Can't really knock him. Now from 95 on with the Don Mega stuff he deserves the critique/hypocrite label.

Nonetheless I still think he's a worthy messenger.
 

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Ice Cube was 27 when he made Westside Connection

Was all that gangsta shyt really necessary at 27 years old?

The label made him do it?
Yeah, people who were around then or who followed Cube's career know that he was around the late Minister Khalid Muhammad, and Min. Farakhan in the early to mid 90s. Both of whom spoke out to the public about the entertainment industry.

Even at the height of his solo career, he was around influences that were opening his eyes about the bigger world, the bigger picture, etc. Death Certificate literally is divided into Death and Life sides.

He made a conscious decision to make the music and promote the content that he did., well into his career.
 

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Couldas, shouldas, and what-ifs are cute, but that's not where we are. The reality is that somebody who has seen how the sausage is made is speaking out. Instead of killing the messenger, we should heed the message.

Cube speaking out is doing what exactly. This story including the secret meeting has been told for decades. Cube is in a position to have done something more than just speak on it. If Cube was a new artist today, a lot of ya'll would call him out for pushing Black genocide because of his lyrics.
 

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And whatever inside information Cube has, he isn't sharing it. He wouldn't even tell us the labels or even point us in the direction to do further research. Draw the correlation between the private prisons and Hip Hop. Because what he's saying in the video has been said in various ways over decades, but no one has expounded on it. Saying "well, there's all these negative images pushed in the music influences these kids to engage in activities that lead to prison". And educate people on private prisons. Doing research, of the 27 states that have private prisons:

 

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Cube speaking out is doing what exactly. This story including the secret meeting has been told for decades. Cube is in a position to have done something more than just speak on it. If Cube was a new artist today, a lot of ya'll would call him out for pushing Black genocide because of his lyrics.
...and a lot of ya'll would say that Black genocide is okay as long as it has a good beat and you can vibe to it.
The rest of us expect better because we know the culture can be better.
 
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