Yea this was actually revealed by Eminem throughout one of his songs. Actual Skeltons in his closest. He seemed don innocent prior to this song: https://youtu.be/LOSd27_hl8o

I have always wondered about that line “Now I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition, take a second to listen who you think this record is dissin’”

The listener/critics. Everyone judged his lyrics and by cleaning out his closet, it is meant to make sense of why he was so over the top. Hence, he wouldn't just diss her for recognition, but to bring light to how horrible of a mother she was, which in turn caused him to be the way he is.

Same tactic was the inspiration for the last battle in 8 mile when he begins by dissing his life and then: "Don't ever try to judge me dude Cause you don't know what the fuck I been through"

Look into birdman. That dude is extremely sick in the head.

It's nowhere near how Rock Pop and country are deeply in Satanic Abuse Ritual

All art is propaganda. Nothing is immune from it.

Art is pretty much the only thing humans do for no reason. People have always created just to create , it's a form of expression. So I would say most art is not propaganda.

That being said.... Almost anything heard on the radio is not art, it's pop music. Whether it's rap, country, or w/e, some big wig producer has mangled it to make it catchy for the masses

I get what you're saying, but all creators have their own biases, and most creators are trying to encourage a response from the viewer.

I would agree with that. Maybe different from what I’d say is propaganda, but the creators are trying to invoke a feeling and a response from their art. And the response they’re trying to provoke is connected to their world view and their emotions, and are often trying to get you to feel the same.

Also in Orwell's All Art is Propaganda essays, I don't think he is talking about fringe art that can be interpreted in different ways. He was tralking about mainstream stuff like Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin.

I would say all entertainment is propaganda but I would not confuse it with art.

I think you're taking it too literally. This was Orwell's view:

“It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose — a political, social and religious purpose — that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs.”

I know people create things just to be creative, but as someone that has woked in illustration and graphic design for years, most of my pieces were trying to convey some message, and I also have my own biases that have probably been apparent in my work.

I was thinking about Hollywood and the LA music scene, then it dawned on me... Nashville? What's up in Nashville? Is it the same/similar to LA?

Look who is behind these rappers in dresses.

Lyor Cohen "The Tall Israeli" who runs the Rap Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1IWH3AhmAU

Every time I hear this guy's name mentioned, there's never anything good attached to it.

He began working for a large bank in Israel, set up by his mother. Then all of a sudden comes here to be Run DMCs road manager. He doesnt explain much in between other then throwing parties with now large acts that were small then.

I was trying to figure out how he linked up with Run DMC myself.

I dont think anyone really knows man, he glosses over a lot.

Sounds like shady business

Interesting video.

The very last scene has a tweet from Chuck D of Public Enemy.

PE was the absolutely most influential rap band in the world that got shut down by the major labels because they started supporting the Nation of Islam and guys like Louis Farrakhan. Professor Griff got fired from the band because he was getting super into that stuff. Damage was done though, they dumped them.

Public Enemy went independent and since then, they've been releasing their own albums. Their reputation is so strong though that the major labels can't just erase them.

VladTV on youtube has a ton of great videos with a bunch of rappers that talk about stuff you don't hear on normal channels.

https://youtu.be/B5bjniiNzu8

Bay Area rap in general has gone independent, almost since the get but certainly after Tupac. I wonder if the PE scenario informed their decisions.

The music evolution was tainted just right before Tupac came out. Everything since then has been tainted. Real true independent hip hop is making a comeback but it's values are based off toxic ideology. The true stuff is starting to come back though.

I haven't dipped into that xanax-pill-69xwhatevs-soundcloud thing. It's like the hyphy druggie Bay stuff got exported and morphed into Big Pharma suburban pill-popping lethargy rap. Opposite of hyphy. I realized I also didn't consider that genre "independent," prolly age bias on my part.

That tall Israeli guy is Lyor Cohen. He was with Def Jam when PE was up and coming. He's now working with google, spotify and soundcloud I believe.

I have heard quite a bit about Professor Griff from Mark Devlin, but I will check these vids out. Thanks

Check out the conspiracy about Jerry Heller killing Eazy E on that channel too. There's some pretty crazy accusations made by Eazy's friends about it.

Pimp C was saying it all. That's why they killed him.

Pimp 107.5 Atl RipPimp

That's the one. Thanks for sharing the link! Pimp spoke truth. He wanted to bring rap together. Let's all make money.

archived this video just in case

Gangsta rap = populate private prisons by glorifying criminal lifestyle

I've been listening to this track quite a bit lately and it's quite relevant to your post...

I just saw someone yesterday post a quote from that song. I’ll always upvote killer mike

First of all, 90s RnB is the jam.

Second of all, are you saying NWA, Dre, all the early guys, Slick Rick, whatever before that, were a behind the scenes scheme to get minorities in prison through the use of glorifying rap lyrics?

http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html

My pleasure! My assumption is the article/meeting is about Jerry Heller, pre-NWA.

Hip Hop and Punk rock were counter-culture. It was street music made by street kids. Early 90s, the major labels took over both scenes and murdered them by making them watered down junk music to be resold to the larger mainstream audience.

The big companies killed the old values, replaced them with toxic values, and set it loose where it's been contaminating the public since then.

Like I said, rap was street music. Many 80s rappers grew up in the environment and saw how drugs, gangs, crime destroyed the communities. They used the music to push positive lessons to young fans in the hope that they'd do better.

The corporate dicks completely undermined that to sell bad values like glorifying gangs, guns, crime, drugs, etc..

Shifted demographics. Old rap was a very small genre that was dedicated to people in the scene. When it went mainstream, the demographics shifted to the new market of suburban white fans who liked the image and attitude but didn't know the politics.

The boondocks animated show touched on some of these points with the character Gangstalicious