This is kept fair news coming up once behind the music. First, let's
talk about rap music and then the music industry. Today, rap music is
a more complex thing to me than it was when it first started. Rap
music became like a screet thing with violence. It crushed my dreams from wanting
to become a rapper. When rap first started, it was simply all about
having fun and entertainment. It started in the early seventies. It was a
good thing. In the eighties. It kept some people off the street where
I'm from. Some of us had dreams and wanted to become famous and make
rap records. We would get together in school and have rap contests. Those
were the good old days. Our parents told us we wouldn't make it that
way. I believe we could have back then. Considering what's going on now,
it seemed like the music industry began to change, and so did hip
hop. In the nineties, I saw how hip hop was affecting things.
I didn't know what was going on in nineteen eighty nine when Whitney Houston got
booed and why I was hearing all the talk about her not being black enough
at the Soul Trained Music Awards. I believe something was happening then. Then
everybody was talking about hip hop, singing Mary J. Blige in nineteen ninety
two, but by then Whitney Houston went on to act in a romantic thriller
film, The Bodyguard in nineteen ninety two. But getting back to hip hop,
it seemed in the nineties rap music was popular because of the West Coast
East Coast thing. By then, I wasn't interested in rap that much.
To me, some people started looking at black as hip hop. I never
considered the race thing in music as far as all of the violence. Music
was becoming a violent thing to me because Tupoc got shot and Biggie got shot.
It made me think that music was not just music anymore, and hip
hop wasn't hip hop anymore. Then, all over a sudden, I was
hearing that Michael Jackson was facing allegations of child's sexual abuse in nineteen ninety three
and two thousand and three, Then in two thousand and nine He's dead.
In twenty twelve, Whitney Houston died. Our biggest stars after that, Prince
died in two thousand sixteen. Then R Kelly went to jail in twenty twenty
two for sex trafficking. Now I'm seeing p Diddy in the news. Things
ain't right in the music world. That's what the headlines have been telling us,
not tablaids with gossip, but headlines and television. So what's behind the
music? Why are all these bad things happening to our favorite stars? Why
are they being accused of sex crimes? Why are they going to jail?
And these are very successful people think on these things. Thank you for listening
to c B News. I'm Gail Nobles.