The Gubmint Watching The Rappers

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***I read this on another message board and am looking for confirmation that the government is really watching rappers. I remember Aaron McGruder having strips about this last week but IS IT REALLY TRUE?!!?!?!*****





Security Bill Passes, Government Watching Rappers:

By Nolan Strong
Date: 11/26/2002 5:00 PM


Monday, Pres. Bush passed a controversial Home Land Security Bill that has many people, including rappers, concerned. The law passes after the federal government admitted they have been probing various rappers for almost a year.

The bill combines 22 federal agencies, including the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, the Customs Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Immigration and Nationalization Service and will employ over 170,000 people. The bill allows for unprecedented freedom in the monitoring of American citizens.

The government has been reportedly investigating several unnamed rap entities and production companies, seeking to find out how they obtained guns and drugs. The probe also is seeking to determine whether money laundering operations are taking place.

"They are close watching [rappers]," Nore told AllHipHop.com. "It's not rap music. They automatically point the finger at a rapper," Nore said of the recent violence that has been plaguing hip-hop.

Nore is not one to shy away from his well documented encounters with the law, but says that he has changed, since he was married August 30.

"I got kids and a wife. So, I'm just cool. I'm not a sucker, don't get me wrong, but I'm living for the kids now. I can remember coming off a tour and the first thing I do is go to the hood. Now, its nothing like that."

Nore was skeptical of the governments probe into rap, saying that there were too many circumstances and causes to just blame rap.

"Anything can happen around you and you get blamed for it, you dig?" Nore continued. "Something can happen at a club and just the fact that my name is on a flyer or I'm in there [they can blame me]. I stay outta trouble period because I have things to live for."