Don't snitch on killers

[c.j.jaxxon]

You're right all around and over here in the U.S. ever since that Don Imus fiasco black women and women's organisations are up in arms about these rappers and their lyrics but again, don't just blame the rappers because the people who control the music industry don't want to put out positive music because it don't make money. So that should tell you that negative rap sells. When I said that the police, the military, the mob and whoever else have a unwritten law about no snitching I meant it to be within their ranks meaning that if a cop for instance, stops a black youth innocent of any crime but "fits the description" finds a reason to beat him up and PLANT drugs on him and his police partner doesn't say anything about it, that is wrong and he is just as responsible for sending an innocent man to jail as the one who put the drugs on him.

[zoomraker]

Who buys all the rap records anyway - probably middle class white kids.

The rappers are just living up to a stereotype that the record companies can sell to white kids.

For some reason it was decided by the liberal establishment in this country that it was ok for black people to behave in a rude and aggresive way because they were not able to live up to the standards expected of white people.

[c.j.jaxxon]

Well we're talking about rap music first and again don't forget black people don't control the radio stations, distribution and who gets signed. On PBS stations here a documentary about black men and hip hop came on a couple of months ago called "Beyond Beats And Rhymes" which was a good one will tell you better than I could without a long drawn out conversation. Since we don't control what gets out on the air waves they who control the music industry simply don't want positive rap to get out because THEY say it don't make money. Let me give an example. I used to work for a radio research company in 1990 to 1991 and what they used to do was give the person we called five to six songs to rate on a 1 to 5 scale. Well if all the songs we're so-called gangster rap artist then that was what the people rated and eventually got to the airwaves. Later on in the years Public Enemy, Paris etc couldn't buy time to get radio airplay because they said that that wasn't what the public wanted to hear.