I'm certainly not 21, but a couple of thousand people supporting your crusade doesn't mean it's "popular" and there's no indication at all - whether from videos, photographs of protests, the number of people who signed her petitions, or polling at the time - that indicates she had any popularity.Yes, they did dumbass, I fukking did a research paper on this in the early 2000s and even spoke with Ms. Tucker. There were a lot of younger people, especially the young church crowd, former victims of street violence, and women who were heavily involved. They had the numbers. They just didn't have the financial backing. It was clear, these media conglomerates were going to do this and their agenda was put in place in 1990, and they got the buy-in from the hip hop community in 1991.
This was done for a reason. Rappers got budgets for videos that would make Michael Jackson blush. It was a full-on war and anyone in the way was getting derailed. You are too young to know about this shyt. Ain't you like 21 or something. You talking to a nikka who lived it. Before this meeting, rappers were the most broke of all musicians. They all had to sell sex, drugs, and death or they wouldn't make money. That's why they sacrificed Hammer who refused at that time.
I'm well aware of the money given to rappers - I'm not sure why you're acting like this is ancient history and has to be deciphered - rappers are still pretty broke to this day - save for a small cadre of "rappers turned CEOs."
There were quite a few rappers that didn't have to sell "sex, drugs, and death" - the entire hip-hop period from 88 to 2004 is full of popular conscious artists
I get what you're trying to say but I would love to see an ounce of proof of this widespread popularity - and that its somehow different from the young church crowd, victims of street violence, and feminists who still are still against gangsta rap/trap music today.