TL;DR: Gangster rap emerged around the same time as large-scale privatization of the prison industry. If you're invested in that, it certainly makes sense for you to pad your clientele by incentivizing criminal behavior through pop culture. Hmmm...can anyone think of a pop culture institution that brazenly glorifies crime?
It's just an anon post, but the author of that letter claims to have been invited to a meeting where music industry bigshots discussed just that scheme. The atmosphere started out jovial enough, but then private security with guns showed up before the pitch.
Anon says his conscience couldn't handle it so he bugged out, but not before he was put on notice that they'll be watching him and his family, lest he open his mouth.
Holy Shit, thank you for that Link. I'm roughly as old as the Zelda franchise (ha, get it?), but I've never been able to track down where that riff came from, so you really helped me tie up a thread here.
The story is complicated, but in recent years there was a movement to revisit those more playful and innocent days:
"Awful for who?" is the salient question (also worth it IMO to learn the snooty Latin "Cui Bono?" just to preserve some culture. Anyways:
Why rap is awful
TL;DR: Gangster rap emerged around the same time as large-scale privatization of the prison industry. If you're invested in that, it certainly makes sense for you to pad your clientele by incentivizing criminal behavior through pop culture. Hmmm...can anyone think of a pop culture institution that brazenly glorifies crime?
It's just an anon post, but the author of that letter claims to have been invited to a meeting where music industry bigshots discussed just that scheme. The atmosphere started out jovial enough, but then private security with guns showed up before the pitch.
Anon says his conscience couldn't handle it so he bugged out, but not before he was put on notice that they'll be watching him and his family, lest he open his mouth.
Remember when rap was about wanting to get the fuck out of that mess?
For anyone not familiar with the song, sit back and listen to the lyrics. Then compare it to the messages rap pumps out today.
Holy Shit, thank you for that Link. I'm roughly as old as the Zelda franchise (ha, get it?), but I've never been able to track down where that riff came from, so you really helped me tie up a thread here.
The story is complicated, but in recent years there was a movement to revisit those more playful and innocent days:
Pan!c Pop & Sixtroke - Work !T Out
I would suggest the term "Future Funk" if you're interested in this kind of '80s nostalgia.
You didn't, by any chance, first hear it in Second Life, did you?
Hmm couldn't say exactly where. Definitely not Second Life since I've never played.
Probably first heard it on one of those commercials selling old "greatest hits" compilations back in the '90s.
More recently I hear it turn up in Vaporwave stuff but I'm having trouble finding an example atm.