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"Hip Hop Radio's Profiteers and Enablers," by Ohio political prisoner, Jason Goudlock. During rap music's infancy in the early 1980s, nearly all the poetic rap songs, the boom bap music, played on hip hop radio stations, have lyrics about social struggles within communities of color, or events like basketball games and neighborhood parties. But not today. Now, most rap songs on the FCC-regulated airways of urban radio glorify the criminal lifestyle, the drug dealers, pimps, robbers, and murderers. Gangsta rappers, hip hop radio stations, large corporations, and even small businesses, are all guilty of promoting these invitations and justifications for mass incarceration. The gangsta rappers, and the audience of hip-hop radio, being overwhelmingly African-American, it's ironic that African-American leaders are silent about rap songs that glorify the violence often tearing our Black neighborhoods apart. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, African America