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This is kept fair news coming up
once behind the music. First, let's

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talk about rap music and then the
music industry. Today, rap music is

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a more complex thing to me than
it was when it first started. Rap

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music became like a screet thing with
violence. It crushed my dreams from wanting

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to become a rapper. When rap
first started, it was simply all about

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having fun and entertainment. It started
in the early seventies. It was a

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good thing. In the eighties.
It kept some people off the street where

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I'm from. Some of us had
dreams and wanted to become famous and make

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rap records. We would get together
in school and have rap contests. Those

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were the good old days. Our
parents told us we wouldn't make it that

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way. I believe we could have
back then. Considering what's going on now,

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it seemed like the music industry began
to change, and so did hip

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hop. In the nineties, I
saw how hip hop was affecting things.

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I didn't know what was going on
in nineteen eighty nine when Whitney Houston got

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booed and why I was hearing all
the talk about her not being black enough

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at the Soul Trained Music Awards.
I believe something was happening then. Then

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everybody was talking about hip hop,
singing Mary J. Blige in nineteen ninety

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two, but by then Whitney Houston
went on to act in a romantic thriller

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film, The Bodyguard in nineteen ninety
two. But getting back to hip hop,

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it seemed in the nineties rap music
was popular because of the West Coast

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East Coast thing. By then,
I wasn't interested in rap that much.

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To me, some people started looking
at black as hip hop. I never

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considered the race thing in music as
far as all of the violence. Music

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was becoming a violent thing to me
because Tupoc got shot and Biggie got shot.

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It made me think that music was
not just music anymore, and hip

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hop wasn't hip hop anymore. Then, all over a sudden, I was

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hearing that Michael Jackson was facing allegations
of child's sexual abuse in nineteen ninety three

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and two thousand and three, Then
in two thousand and nine He's dead.

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In twenty twelve, Whitney Houston died. Our biggest stars after that, Prince

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died in two thousand sixteen. Then
R Kelly went to jail in twenty twenty

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two for sex trafficking. Now I'm
seeing p Diddy in the news. Things

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ain't right in the music world.
That's what the headlines have been telling us,

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not tablaids with gossip, but headlines
and television. So what's behind the

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music? Why are all these bad
things happening to our favorite stars? Why

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are they being accused of sex crimes? Why are they going to jail?

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And these are very successful people think
on these things. Thank you for listening

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to c B News. I'm Gail
Nobles.