Alicia Keys: Conspiracy Theorist?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

...yeah...even Wikipedia can tell you that.

I've listened to all of this stuff for a while. I don't need wikipedia to tell me anything. Thanks though.


The creation of the gangsta rap genre (we're talking about a genre of music and not a "movement" in terms of rappers wanting to talk about certain things in their songs) isn't mostly up to the artists. The music industry and the media generally don't operate that way.

I guess. Could their "movement" not heavily influence the creation of the "genre"? You've got a bunch of rappers pushing the "gangster" lifestyle into the tape decks and cd players of quite a few people......it doesn't seem like it would take a rocket scientist to call the stuff "gangsta rap".

Almost everything you see and hear in the media is deliberate. That doesn't make everything a result of a "conspiracy" but it's all deliberate. "Deliberate to accomplish what" is the question.

It's like a "chicken or egg" type issue. Were record execs just responding to the artists' and fans' interests or were the artists' and fans' interests in response to the money put into the creation and marketing of a genre of music? I don't know but it's interesting.

It is interesting, indeed.

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