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Saydrah  ·  4569 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Secret meeting that destroyed rap music
Cough bullshit cough cough. The private prison industry is evil and big, but it makes nowhere near what the recording industry would have been making in the pre-Napster era. There is absolutely no way they were calling the shots with much richer companies. Not to mention that much of early rap was far more explicitly pro-crime than modern rap is. Modern hip-hop is often criticized for being too much "grind on hot chick in the club" and too little "real stories about urban crime."