Rap
 Rap  (music)   | |
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| Interest of | • Glenn Altschuler • Zuby |
Rap is a musical style often associated with US black ghetto culture.
“Speaking to Bill Maher, the rapper Ice Cube said "Follow the money, You go high enough you start to see literally the same people who own the labels own the private prisons, so you know it seems really kind of suspicious, if you want to say that word, that you know the records that come out are really geared to push people towards that prison industry." Maher commented "But they didn't make you write those lyrics". Ice Cube answered: "it's not about making somebody write the lyrics, it's about being there as guard rails to make sure certain songs make it through and certain songs don't. Certain flavors are exposed. You know, some records are made by committee"”
Ice Cube, Bill Maher (July 2023) [1]
Hip-hop for regime change
In the 2010s, two CIA fronts, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) secretly spent millions of dollars trying to infiltrate Cuba's underground hip-hop movement. The idea was to use Cuba’s rappers "to break the information blockade" and build a network of "desocialized and marginalized youth" to spark a youth movement against the government.[2][3]
Center stage in this effort was a collection of artists, musicians and writers called the San Isidro Movement, working through mediums like hip-hop. Members of the San Isidro Movement received large amounts from regime change outfits like the NED and USAID while meeting with State Department officials, US embassy staff in Havana, right-wing European parliamentarians and Latin American coup leaders from Venezuela’s Guaidó to OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro.[3]
Max Blumenthal wrote in a 2021 article that "because of its long history as a CIA front, USAID outsourced the operation to Creative Associates International, a Washington DC-based firm with its own track record of covert actions." Creative Associates found its point man in Rajko Bozic, a veteran of the CIA-backed Otpor! regime change specialists. Posing as a music promoter, Bozic approached a Cuban rap group called Los Aldeanos that was known for its ferociously anti-government anthem, Rap is War. The Serbian operative never told Los Aldeanos he was a US intelligence asset; instead, he claimed he was a marketing professional and promised to turn the group's frontman into an international star.[3]
To further the plan, Creative Associates rolled out ZunZuneo, a Twitter-style social media platform that blasted out thousands of automated messages promoting Los Aldeanos to Cuban youth without the rap group's knowledge.[3]
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Azaziah | |
| P. Diddy | American rapper who might be involved in sexual blackmail operation. |
| Pablo Hasél | |
| Jay-Z | American rapper "said to be more powerful and more evil than P. Diddy." |
| Wyclef Jean | Haitian rapper, YGL/2010 |
| Lowkey | |
| Tupac Shakur | Internationally known rap musician. Assassinated |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Private Prisons Criminalized Rap | Letter, E-Mail | 24 April 2012 | Unknown |
