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Roaming around Youtube.com, I came across an interesting video on Alicia Keys, an attractive singer of R&B/Soul who maintains a successful career as a multi-platinum selling artist. The video discusses her supposed conspiracy theory against the United States government and its controlled American media. She alleges that both the government and the media were at fault for secretly manipulating the entertainment music industry, more specifically the genres of hip hop and rap, to further... (continue reading)

TrueSouljia 3-19-2009 9:06 pm The reason Hip Hop is considered dead and has "fallen off" is that the control and distribution of it's content is so consolidated, usually coming from one of the five major labels (Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Group, Universal Music Group, BMG Entertainment, and Warner Brothers Music). And this writer from Columbia says we should consolidate its control even more under the Government? Not the answer! The gate-keepers only want one certain type of... (continue reading)

Everything that has been said about this topic so far is true...But how come no one has been looking at what truly causes this downfall of integrity in real Hip Hop?

The record labels want new Artists to be an industry standard, money-making manufactured package. And whenever there is standards, we loose originality and honesty to fake images that are truly "American Idols". Sex, Money, and American Machismo is what they are looking for. Gangsters, Thugs, Pimps, Players, and... (continue reading)