VICE skriver här om saken, och om hur konspirationskulturen odlas och växer friskt inom hip-hop-kulturen:
... this is part of a long and rich tradition of rappers espousing off-kilter views about the world around us. Before B.o.B., there was Chris Brown tweeting that the government was using Ebola as a way to control the population; Chingy's Instagram; and Lil Wayne's "Georgia Bush," which accused the government of exploding the levees around New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Before that, Prodigy of Mobb Deep chopped it up with Alex Jones to drop science about the Illuminati. And while we're on that subject, let's not forget the ever-frequent suggestions that Jay Z is himself a member of the Illuminati.
That's not even to mention the various rumors swirling around the premature deaths of icons such as Tupac, Biggie, Pimp C, Eazy-E, and Aaliyah, which seem to reach higher and higher levels of unreality each year. Or the belief that US President Ronald Reagan introduced crack and AIDS to the black community, a theory has been repeated throughout hip-hop at such a steady clip that it has ceased to be conspiracy, and has entered into the realm of reasonable opinion.
Hip-hop-miljön präglas i stor utsträckning av reaktion mot rasism, men leder också fel in i en värld av konstiga teorier. En teori som framlagts av hip-hoparen Professor Griff, tidigare medlem i Public Enemy, är att judarna finansierar AIDS-experiment på svarta i Afrika.
En ny film om hip-hop-miljön är för övrigt just nu högaktuell, "Straight Outta Compton". Här trailern:
Källa: VICE
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