a hitmaking scheme

Now, I’m no conspiracy theorist also Thailand — I prefer not to attribute to malice what can more easily be blamed on stupidity, short-sighted greed, incompetence, or neglect. I don’t think the government is clever or efficient enough to have invented gangsta rap as a hitmaking scheme, much less as a genocidal plot. (Also, if the music really is a plot targeted toward black people, where do all the suburban white kids buying the music fit in?) But it is worth asking how gangsta rap became so popular, to the exclusion of all other forms of rap. It wasn’t just media hype. Was it all just marketing? Agyness Deyn  Or was it, as Keys suggests now, because it addressed social realities that were ignored elsewhere? I’m not fully convinced by any one of these notions, but these are questions that ought to be asked, and it would be a shame if the hyperbole of Keys’ earlier remarks became an excuse to avoid asking them. Travel to Asia