"They Own Both" - Ice Cube Claims Record Labels Own Private Prisons

Retired Black Officer here who worked in South Central in the 80s and 90s. Gangster rap had a profound effect on the inner city youth. When I first began working in Watts, kids would run up to us, happy to just talk with the police, and we even carried baseball cards to give to them. When gangster rap took hold, that all changed and the Rodney King incident exacerbated the resentment that changed between the good people and kids in the inner city and the police. It also started a movement and thought process which categorized books and learning as “white” and learning and going outside of the ghetto wasn’t“keeping it real.” So yes, it did changed things drastically.

Private prisons one of the worst things to happen to America. It gives terrible incentives to greedy men.

I'm a 90's kid from Los Angeles. My teenage friends and I listen to gangster rap. We were like 20 strong from 92 to 98. 8 were killed, 7 are doing life in California prisons and the rest of us, thank God and to our parents we made it. The ones who made it had a mom and father at home. That was a major for our success.

Prisons are one of the few things that should NOT be private.

Gangster rap was a horrible influence on me when I was a teenager.

People should go listen to the Krayzie Bone Podcast where he talks about how the CIA and record companies held a meeting in 1991 to promote more gangsta rap and not allow positive hip hop on radio.

I'm an 80s baby, grew up as a teen mid 90s in LA area, and that's when eazy, pac, bone thugs, and cube to name a few, caused me to pump me up more than I already was influenced by the streets itself... listening to rap was like adding fuel to the fire and causing more chaos on the streets... simple as that, regardless of the community, the inner city was affected by it the most, not the suburbs.

Ice Cube’s really grown on me over the years…between his successful musical expressions, funny and wildly popular movies and now his courage and honesty for saying what he said about the industry. I bet Eric’s smiling down at him. Total admiration from an old white homestead guy👍

PBD spitting some bone thugs was not on my bingo card 😂❤️

His hypothesis is correct because I'm a poor white kid from a trailer park but Bone Thugs was taking over and all my friends ended up in jail

Professor Fryer is a Great American! He did not turn his back on the facts to appease popular sentiment.

“Hug Tha Police”? Professor: “That better have a helluva beat”!😂🤣😂

It’s funny because I remember when I was a kid, they said this. That it was messing up the mindset of the kids in the suburbs. That’s when they added the warning on cassettes and CDs. As kids we didnt know any better. As an adult, I totally get it.

Bone Thugs and Harmony spoke on CIA being included in meetings back in those days. I saw them speak on that like 6-8 years ago in a video on YT.

As a white kid who grew up in the suburbs of Florida, coming of age at the millennium, it wasn’t until college I realized how the words in gansta rap perpetuated a negative thought pattern, and chose to turn it off. I did have a bad ass 1972 Cutlass Supreme though.

PBD said “RBL POSSE” 😳 you just gained a whole new level of street credibility 🤘🏽🥳

Odd how violin players don't do drive by's on each other.

Roland is even more impressive than I thought he would be. What a man.

Remember how R&B used to be all about ROMANCE & ❤LOVE❤ way back in the day....in a respectful way? NOW there's NO LOVE TO BE FOUND!

ice cube is totally right. at the end of the day talent only gets you in the room with the people that give you the push. giving a push to certain things can and will create a feedback loop. once people see certain things get a push it causes more people to create those things