Homecoming - The Conspiracy

So a few months ago I lied to a friend. Told her I’d work on my blog again, this for real. I had no intentions of doing that, with my foot on the vast world of entertainment’s door, a blog was in my mind a spark next a bonfire. But then again I thought of something Vince Vaughn said in that movie the Internship. His character said “sometimes the long shots pay off the biggest”.

So here I am you Hip Hop heads.

Only a few people actually asked me why I stopped posting. Truth is my blog got marked and I passed.

What I've been up to since my last post is not really relevant to anything Hip Hop, well apart from one thing really. When I was in Cape Town I became very paranoid. I became something like of a conspiracy theorist…you know Illuminati and such nonsense.

I’m afraid it didn't get any better, I started listening to Rick Ross’ work. It didn't help with anything. After Ross, I dipped into a bit of 

Jay Z,

Pusha T,

50 cent,
 

Eminem, 

Snoop Dogg… err I mean Lion, I mean… fuck it you know who I’m talking about. 

I then found myself on some TDE, especially Ab Soul, Kdot and Schoolboy Q (Jay Rock sucks, he probably begged to be on the crew, or maybe he was the guy with the connections…I should look into that, or maybe if you know holler at me. But any way I digress). Really though, listen to Ab Souls' 'Just Have Fun' from his 'These Days...' album. 

After listening to these artists, drugs seemed to the common denominator. Had I been in my right mind, the CD would be mad bars, that’s what you think when you think of what these artists have in common…well except for Eminem. He didn't deal drugs, he just consumed them like a muhfuckah. At this point my mind was buzzing.

I conjured up wild theories, Googling fragments of relevant information to justify my wild claims. I googled things like ‘When was weed declared an illegal substance?’, ‘Origin of Crack’, ‘What Is Crack’…. Then I found myself watching a video about Pablo Escobar and the Colombian Necktie…gnarly shit I tell you.

So the conspiracy you ask?

The FBI and a secret part of the CIA was sustained my drug cartel money. (I know far fetched shit right?!)

I had it in my mind that the FBI, and the secret part of the CIA, were in cahoots with certain cartels that paid them (FBI & the secret part of the CIA) operation fee. Basically giving the cartels right to sell drugs in locations where these rappers grew up. Locations crippled by poverty and gang warfare.

The rappers that came up from those conditions, tell their stories through their music and the “authority” maintains that it’s not literal.

Anyway I ended claim

Hip Hop is a platform to advertise drugs. Think about it, they sell you a way of life…a very comfortable way of life. Telling the audience of their deep pockets and money is everything and how drugs was a way for them to get ‘paper’. Basically pushing THE Audience to selling drugs…It’s easy money. And if you get caught, you’ll just lose a bit of your freedom…arg…no no no, I’m not touching that again.

What got me back though was listening to South African Hip Hop. You know, the older cats, Optical Illusion, H2O, Skwata Camp, etc. and I was like…NAH I’m just being paranoid.

But what if I’m not!!!!!