There
are 3 major corporations that own and distribute 95% of the music industry (Universal, EMI & Warner Music Group)
They basically turned Hip Hop into Hip POP because they have control over the “urban”
radio stations telling them what to play and what not to play (Payola for Pay). Viacom, another massive company, owns MTV, BET, Comedy Central and VH1.
Viacom in 2007 sued
YouTube after Google purchased it
for $1.65 billion. Viacom argued in the lawsuit that YouTube’s explosive growth
was based in part on users uploading & posting videos of Viacom’s programs,
which included The Daily Show and South Park, but Google argued that the DMCA protected YouTube from liability because the site promptly
takes down infringing content once it is notified. According to the DMCA, safe
harbor protection applies if an Internet service provider like YouTube
“responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is
claimed to be infringing.”
On Thursday
April 18th 2013, a federal judge handed a major victory to YouTube on
Thursday, one year after a federal appeals court breathed new life into Viacom’s $1
billion lawsuit. Viacom had accused YouTube of illegally hosting videos that
infringe on the company’s intellectual property, including popular content like
MTV videos and TV shows like Comedy Central’s “South Park.”
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton, who has presided over the case
for several years, once again found that Google and YouTube are protected
by the “safe harbor” provisions of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Kent Walker,
Google’s general counsel, said in a statement to TIME : “The court correctly rejected Viacom’s lawsuit against
YouTube, reaffirming that Congress got it right when it comes
to copyright on the Internet,”. “This is a win not just for YouTube, but for
people everywhere who depend on the Internet to exchange ideas and
information.” Read more on this story HERE.
The reason why I’m making the connection between Viacom and and
the Music Industry is because they act together with one cause, to stop the
real Hip Hop culture from being aired to the masses.
Afu
Ra
AZ
Bad
Seed
Bahamadia
Black
Moon
Black
Sheep
Bone
Thugs N Harmony
Boot
Camp Clik
Brand
Nubian
Buckshot
Camp
Lo
Canibus
Cappadonna
Channel
Live
Cocoa
Brovaz
Craig
G
D.O.C.
Da
Brat
De
La Soul
Dead
Prez
Diamond
D
E-40
El-P
Freddie
Foxxx
Geto
Boys
Goodie
Mob
GZA
Heather
B
Hieroglyphics
Ice
Cube
Inspectah
Deck
Jayo
Felony
Jean
Grae
Jeru
Killah
Priest
Kool
G. Rap
Kool
Keith
KRS
One
Lil
Cease
Little
brother
MC
Lyte
McGruff
Method
Man
MF
Doom
Mic
Geronimo
Monie
Love
Mos
Def
Nate
Dogg
O.C.
Onyx
Raekwon
The
Artifacts
The
Liks
Reason why? They claimed their music is not
"relevant" to the BET audience. (12-19 year old black females). But
Nicki Minaj is? A woman whose name derives from a woman having a threesome and
raps about sex and drugs showing her silicone filled ass? I guess that’s relevant
to a 12 year old black female but not an artist that speaks about being positive
and smart. Shows what direction they are steering a 12 yr old black girl to
emulate.
When Little Brother’s
“The Minstrel Show” dropped, BET refused to play their debut video from that
album (Lovin’ It) because it was “too intelligent for the BET audience. So
basically what they are doing is telling artists to dumb down the music to program our young
black people to be unaware of knowledge of self.
Also,
the radio Djs were actually being Djs,
they were the ones that would pick a record and make it popular, now these
companies are telling the Djs what
to play, and these suckers play right along with them. It is another form of
control since these major companies own the music industry which in turn own
the radio stations. If you feed people
dog shit long enough they will put BBQ sauce on it. Consumers can be taught anything. How many
times have you heard a song on the radio, hated it, but hearing it over and
over and over again, you succumb to it? I know I have, to me its psychological
programming. So to program kids to like what they want you to like is much
easier to do. You are being controlled, you being lied to , and eventually you
will lie to others.
And the process keeps going and going and going like the Energizer
bunny. The women projected on love and Hip Hop, which runs on VH1, constantly
portrays them as fighting bitter ass women, the Atlanta show is just outright
ignorant.
People
really need to wake up to what’s going on and be aware to what the Music &
Entertainment Industry is doing and has been doing for years. There is just too
much negative grossly saturated rap music being fed to the masses. By
constantly playing records about popping Molly, selling kilos, shooting n!ggas and
sexing bitches you are really destroying what is supposed to be a fun,
respectful and beautiful art form. It’s one thing to rap about what’s going on
or what you have been through but to fully exploit violence, disrespecting your
own people and rampant drug use in your music for monetary gain should tell you
what They want you to be or how black people should be. Not being intelligent
is the sure fire way to keep us shackled down. Slavery is not dead it’s just in
a new form. Self-Slavery. KRS ONE preached Self Destruction way back in 1989
and we are still self-destructing.
WAKE UP.