You would have to exclude Aftermath from this category since they started out fighting the status quo of white supremacy. There are numerous other rap artists that are awakened to and who sing about it. They are forced to play within a system of white supremacy. There are a fair share of rap artists who just sing and dance as you’ve described but it is not the entire genre. Nor is it every artist.
This is America by Childish Gambino most recently.
I find it interesting that you are addressing the power of the media conglomerate and the media image. Yet, you seem to have not noticed that people like Dr. Dre noticed this back in the 70s. He decided to fight back using a completely new media vehicle and in a completely different way. Not enough of the people he wanted to hear it were listening though. A bunch of black men screaming F the police. Yeah Carol was not buying that for little Jacob no way no how.
They used the power of music and the narrative verse to literally change the narrative voice of millions of white kids.
But Dre and Eminem they were not holding any punches. They were directly going after the minds of white Americans. They told you so in their song titles. I think people just don’t realize some of these rap artists are next level chess players.
The way Eminem is dressed in his first single.
Hi my name is
Starts with white supremacist status quo family propaganda breaks through to him dressed as a white factory worker and class consciousness.
Nobody notices the factory shot production assembly line. In The Real Slim Shady?
Labor production of the proletariat? Anyone ?
Dre had a problem. His problem in the 90s was that white parents wouldn’t buy black CDS with black people on them ranting against the status quo.
This is what we call a sophisticated infiltration job. Parents won’t automatically see a CD with a blonde white person on it and ask the kid, “What are you listening to?” By the time the white supremacist status quo figured out what their kids were actually listening to and what happened it was too late.
Because in their song where they bragged about the successful completion of their mission he told you so.
That’s all it took, and they were instantly hooked right in
And they connected with me too because I looked like them.
I use Eminem as an example because Dre was the initial brains behind that operation. If you notice the images that they stage him in aren’t necessarily his decision they don’t match his lyrics some of them . He had a lot of input of course but this was next level chess and now all the white kids in elite New York who will one day become our next power structure love rap music. They are aware of some level of the black experience. They view black people as friends and even to be emulated not excluded or hated. Mission accomplished and don’t worry Dre has the media war-game covered.
