Filling the funeral parlors!

 Did you know that the young brothers in the Bronx, New York started rap? At that time, rap was “edutainment,” because the rappers were putting messages in the rap, and young Black people were moving, grooving, and learning. Public Enemy, KRS-1, Big Daddy Kane, all of them teaching, see?

I read recently, they had a meeting in California, in 1970—record executives and some strange men were in the meeting. It was a secret meeting. And what was discussed in the meeting was that these men that were not record executives, they were now privatizing prisons… Prisons are, now, on the stock market.

People don’t buy stock in prisons if you don’t expect high rates of occupancy. Who do you think is going to fill the prisons? Well, in that meeting they were deciding in California to change rap from conscious rap to gangsta rap, and then feeding filth and degenerate lifestyles from the rap artists.

Once they changed the nature of rap to gangsta rap, they started glorifying the gun, glorifying drugs, glorifying cheap low life, and the mistreatment of our women. They started glorifying calling our women by the “b” name, or “prostitutes.”

And you could hear it on the record (“You so-and-so ‘b’!” “You ‘m-f’!” And when you turn on your television now to “Def Comedy Jam,” listen to what people are saying. I watch us laughing at the most filthy expressions.