It also kind of requires the CIA to be incredibly ahead of their time musically, somehow hearing this new sound and knowing it can take the world by storm, scouting out totally unknown artists and somehow picking out the ones capable of innovating and fostering this style to the point that it explodes on to the national and world stages, becoming a defining force in global popular culture for decades. I don't buy it.Brittmoore Car Club said:
I will never discount the evil nature of the CIA, or the heinous atrocities they have committed, domestically and abroad. But did this guy really just claim that Ice Cube didn't write the lyrics to the NWA songs? That the CIA did? Or at the very least sat down with him and told him to write about police brutality, not giving in to gold diggers, bragging about their hood etc?
That is a VERY bold claim. So Ice Cube and all of his former band mates KNOW THIS and have kept this secret all along. And the CIA trusted them to keep this secret?
I don't know man...
If you told me that they raised up or put down certain movements in the fine art world or something, I'd buy that. There are like 75 people who own prominent galleries in the major western art capitals. And those people are already adjacent to the kind of Ivy League aristocrats who have always been recruited by the CIA. But are those same guys going to hear the rap music in the 80s and decide they can totally reshape the zeitgeist by getting some guys from SoCal to do the same thing but make the lyrics about gangbanging and life in the hood? Nah. Gonna need to see a mountain of proof before I'm buying that.