Hip-Hop Police
In the 1990s, the NYPD spun up a mostly-crooked task force focused on spying on rappers and attempting to implicate them in various crimes. Under the guise of "projecting the public," they built up profiles and networks of rappers and everyone in their families and crews. Instead of investigating crimes and searching for people, they investigated people and searched for crimes. Derrick Parker was the head detective. His book Notorious COP chronicles the whole saga. It's 100% real - the only question is how deep does it really go?
From Parker's book:
"As the NYPD's rap expert, I was commissioned in 2001 to create the Binder, a printable database detailing the associations and background of every rapper with a known criminal arrest. It would grow to be numbingly complete, numbering over a thousand pages."
"The Binder covered everyone from boldfaced hip-hop superstars like Puff Daddy, 50 Cent, and Jay-Z to obscure wannabes like E-Money Bags. It listed every case each rapper ever caught, every felon they ran with, every beef they had with rival rap crews--along with personal information like photos, Social Security numbers, record-company affiliations, and last-known addresses."
Chamillionaire made a great song about it and in exchange, got blacklisted from the entire industry.
The same thing happened in Miami - full story here.
Miami Herald, Miami, FL, USA, Mar. 09, 2004—Miami and Miami Beach police are secretly watching and keeping dossiers on hip-hop celebrities like P. Diddy and DMX and their entourages when they come to South Florida, a move police say is to protect the stars and the public.
Officers say they have photographed rappers as they arrived at Miami International Airport. They stake out hotels, nightclubs and video shoots. They consult a six-inch-thick black binder of every rapper and member of his or her group with an arrest record in the state of New York. The binder begins with a photo and rap sheet of Grammy-nominated rapper 50 Cent. It ends with Ja Rule.
The real conspiracy is that the hip-hop police is simply an evolution of the FBI's COINTELPRO program. The goal? Perhaps it's to silence or discredit anyone who goes against the grain and reminds us that the power is indeed with the people.
These days, they don't even need a task force: rappers are too busy telling on themselves. For the privilege of sitting on Vlad TV's couch, rap snitches would gladly sit down and implicate themselves and their loved ones just to go viral.
Wu-Tang FBI Files
https://vault.fbi.gov/russell-tyrone-jones/russell-tyrone-jones/view
Rick Ross Staged Shooting
From the beginning of his career, nobody has ever believed Rick Ross is an actual gangster. So in order to build his image as a level 99 street thug, he orchestrated a fake a shooting. If they were trying to actually murk Ricky Rozay, they didn't really even try.
From Click on Detroit:
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has released little information about the shooting. The Rolls Royce that Ross was driving dodged the spray of bullets from a car pulled up alongside, but slammed into an apartment building on 15th Avenue while trying to get away, say police.
No bullets hit Ross, his passenger, or the car, but they hit several cafes and boutiques along Las Olas.
"Yeah, bad shot," said veteran investigators Joe Matthews.
Eminem Replaced
This one is a classic and perhaps one of the most well-known on the iceberg.
Many believe that the original Eminem is no longer with us. Like Paul McCartney years ago, Em died suddenly and tragically and had to be replaced. Simply, there was just too much money on the line to give it all up. To keep milking the cash cow, they replaced him with a lookalike.
Is it really that farfetched? It's basically plot of the Real Slim Shady video. If they wanted a replacement, they just auditioned a few hundred guys who could play the part.
Physical appearance aside, anyone with a pair of ears can notice a huge drop in quality with Eminem's music over the years. In 2001, Eminem was powerful enough to destroy Jay-Z on a song on Jay-Z's biggest album in history. The guy was unstoppable with 2 classic albums under his belt. Then, something happened. The Eminem Show was okay, but after that? It's almost like it was a completely different person rapping.
In other words, would the Eminem you grew up with do a radio single with Rihanna of all people? I don't think so.
Drake Is An Industry Plant
Allegedly, Drizzy has deep connections in the music industry and Hollywood, going (at least) back to his parents. He got started in entertainment at a young age. After getting shot in Degrassi, he was transplanted into the rap game and placed next to Lil' Wayne, one of the most popular rap artists at the time. Interestingly, the song was called "Ransom" and Drake later signed to Wayne's Young Money label. Overnight, Drake was a household name. Within a few years, discussions popped up online asking if he was the greatest rapper of all-time.
Nothing about any of this seems natural. Was Drake one of the first examples of the music industry trying to meme a rapper into existence? If so, was he intentionally planted into the hip-hop culture for some particular reason? Why is he so sensitive? Is there a connection?
Is Drake essentially the Impossible Burger of rappers? Who knows.
He isn't the only rapper accused of being artificially implanted into the culture. You also have Kreayshawn, Childish Gambino, Chance the Rapper, Post-Malone, Travis Scott, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, and basically every Soundcloud rapper in history. That's just naming a few. The rabbit hole probably goes much deeper than that.
