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ICE CUBE - CUBE THREATENS HIP-HOP REVOLUTION
Rapper ICE CUBE has vowed to shake-up the hip-hop industry after expressing outrage at its commercialism. The star - real name O'SHEA JACKSON - fears the current US rap scene has forgotten its roots and lost direction. He is so appalled that sex and 'bling' are favoured over social commentary in hip-hop tracks he's heading a campaign to stamp out the corporate rot. The former NWA star says, "All we're hearing from America is booty music. If American rappers don't step up their game, then I will. "I'm planning on releasing three records in two years - each more politically charged. "I'm going my own path to sway the tide. We've got to do whatever we can to put the music back in the hands of the people who love it."
02/01/2007 12:34:07 PM
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After the ''Barbarshop''series which I never liked he made his money on the
Jigaboo tip already.People started rap and People will change rap, sadly Not
any commercial rap super stars.you cant bring back the past.and the
underground rappers and poets/spoken rap/ female artists are going to be the
ones to bring rap around.nothing has changed except that the record industry
KNOWS how much power rap has so they keep the booty call music and mentality of
the masses poppin an shakin empty heads..but the reality is that the real
rappers/wordsmiths are being keept out,supressed and financially crippled by
the corperations.The sameM+)(*&*&*&!that tried to keep rap out the mainstream
in the first place,are the ones who make the money today look at DJ Drama and
how the Corperations are getting desparate.your eather part of the problem or
part of the solution.Famous Rappers are part of the problem,they have become
the ones who were the ''types''holding them back when they were comming
along!.How often do you see a new name in the rap hip hop coalition meetings
the same old clicks. because they know that if the let the ''Real''Political
people in, for example I have ''Thugs against Violence'' where excons go and
read there books and tell them real stories of the street to HS.kids/Colleges
and the Help Ive gotten from all the hip hop coalitions and hip hop Summits
(no disrespect) have been ZERO So I also started ''Rikers Island
Rappers/Poets''we do the same thingI care about the Youth so Ill keep on doing
that.but Truse meI put my Rhyme where my revolution.and Rappers are Scared of
revolution Carolyn C. Baxter author of ''Prison solitary and other free
Government services'' Her new book ''Platinum Dreams Lead Reality'' at
Amazon.com
authorsden.com/carolyncbaxter
Thank you Cube!! And your church says AMEN!!! That's not even a 10th of why
you're MY GOAT in this rap game, and why I don't buy the albums of the
others...I'm still bumpin you're last and them other fools will be crying for
years to come when you're done!!!







