Ice Cube EXPOSES the Prison Industrial Complex 

This has all been widely known for a long time, but it's never a bad idea to remind folks.

Bill Maher is not a naysayer. Bill Maher is a member of the club

For those that don't research it...the companies that 'own' prisons are mutual fund companies that also own stock in record labels. THAT'S the connection. Yes, eyeroll....

He's right on....there are private prison industries that HAVE to be kept full....the gov't plans it.....keep em full.

Military Industrial Complex Medicine Science Industrial Complex Education Industrial Complex..

lol @ the abrupt cut-off at the end ... :D -_- .

Always found it sus that Bob Barker owned the company that makes prison/jail mattresses 🤔

In other words, rap music was in the same sense as what Shorting the housing market was...... The banks and lender know it was a bad idea, but damn if it's not making us SOOOO much money.

Imprisonment is not a legitimate form of "justice", in fact it's not justice at all. Justice functions to "make whole" those who are wrong. The only legitimate "crimes" prosecuted have actual victims, and the only just consequence is one that addresses what happened to that victim. The whole function of imprisonment is to AVOID actual justice, allowing the rulers to punish people unjustly. The punishment is not connected to actual victims.

"A bird in the hand is worth more than TWO In the Bush!"

The more stoned cube gets the shakier his voice is

This music did a number on my people.

I know a lot of artists who are told that some of their songs are not going on the record and what is going to go on the record. They are told to kill songs that they love and want to put out.

It occurred to me this morning why religious people don’t have lives- “they give them to God” (or they are hypocrites) - Oliver Stone’s critique on cinema actually might be onto something 🥂🍾

That Roseanne national anthem was at Wrigley Field for a Cubs game, Bill

Yeah jail in Oklahoma sucked super hard. I picked up an eating disorder, and learned how to not enjoy showers as much. Bill M, maybe do a podcast comparing the following: “Men labored all day at the baking of breads and cakes for feasts for the rich and children labored from dawn to midnight and slept all greasy and grimed as they were upon rough pallets on the floor and staggered to the ovens next day, and there was not money enough given to buy a piece of the rich breads they made for others.” - Modern Day (“Wealthy & Powerful”) USA/GOP Economic Policy + Walmart or THE GOOD EARTH by Pearl S. Buck?

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Absolute truth said by Icecube,look in more and its there to see!!

Dick Gregory type stuff here - he talked a lot about this with Prince . Prince R.I.P.

Worked at ISP . Bad with no hope .

Creating an environment that enforces bad behavior in others to benefit yourself. Cruel man handy tactic. Used in this instance, just as it is also used to sexualize our children in school.

Social engineering is everywhere nowadays. Good thoughts, Ice 🧊

Hard!!

Ice cube nailed it..People need to use their minds eye and ears and think / educate research / before acting on their endeavors in life....life is about choices. Make the right choice ppl.

I wouldn't say "exposed" but maybe brought attention back on again. I'm sure Bill would have put it together if he wasn't complaining about Covid lock downs and vaccine every goddamn episode. Change the record Bill we get it.

What's a private prison all I know is city state and federal prison. How do you end up in a private prison?

Could you imagine how much worse it would have been if the CIA had pushed the black community to listen to Bill Maher instead of gangster rap? *shivers*

Words influence the subconscious

Why cube smoking a black and mild 😂?

I have always thought this to be true but I also felt like I was being a little conspiratorial so it’s nice to have it from the horses mouth that this is what was happening all along 😮 Imagine how much further ahead the black community would have gotten if hip-hop would have stayed positive like it was in the beginning.

I wonder who controls and owns the entertainment industry ?

Imagine beeing sentence to prison called " Death Row"

The whole world is corrupt babe ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

THIS TALK NEEDS TO BE HEARD BY BLACK YOUTH

that is some headline. i usually unsub for that type of crap.

After all these conversations, and Bill still cannot connect the dots.

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I really respect Mr. Cube for acknowledging the truth that not all but a lot of hip hop music glorifies criminal and violent mentalities that can lead to brainwashing young people who listen to it which leads to some of them getting in trouble with the law and ending up in prison. It's secondary whether some music executives are directly pushing for that because they have investments in private prisons. There are plenty of rappers who are all too eager to make music like that, and they don't need any pushing from anyone else to want to focus on that. Mr. Cube himself used to be like that and he has made tons of music like that, and it's fair to guess that there are people who ended up imprisoned or who are still in prison in part because of his music having had an effect on influencing and hypnotizing them to want to be involved with illegal and violent activities. Mr. Cube should really focus more on this realization that he has had, and he should really try to use his influence as much as possible to make things in hip hop music more positive.

I think it may be fair to say Bill is about as politically aware as the hosts of the view

It was a a Cubs game not what you said!!!!

Why does Bill Maher pretend he is George Burns?

Lemme get this right...the labels don't write the lyrics or make the music, but they're guilty of "social engineering" for publishing it? WHAT?!?!

Mockery.

Hello, Elvis Presleys twin brother Jessie Presley the first born male child is not buried at Graceland with the Presley family members, the reason being they cannot find the body or grave of Jessie Presley, will Jessie Presley be one of the Great Signs from heaven spoken of in the book of (St.luke 21;11) and Great Signs shall there be from Heaven, The coming of Big Brother ? I'm afraid so, we should have knowen, "Sincerely your's", Joe Mankiewicz, "The Prophet".

That's black raps are conservatives on many issues especially gun control.

talk to some average American BILL!

And by the way Cube we remember how you turned your back on Khalid Muhammad

So he speaks to how the artist has to structure the music to the liking of a committee, and here are Europeans trying to debate cause/reason. How difficult is it to see the connection. My people stop taking issues of our community to those who have no interest in that same community. These are the same people who say Jesus is European. Although, he was hidden from King Herod among the land of Africa; one would be foolish to believe that Christ didn't look like the people of a land that he was being hidden among

Ding dong people did know this for decades you were sleeping

Says the guy making music that causes people to adopt a lifestyle that inevitably gets them thrown in prison. Can't make this up.

Who else thinks Prince was killed ?

Slightly confused how cube is still working but says alot but doesn’t name names! Another distraction

Sell out cube

Why is Bill Maher always the biggest dunce in the room?

Don't buy into the victim BS. Conspiracies of collusion between music & prisons abound and it's one of the more pernicious myths in hip-hop. Connections to the dots are elusive, other than an assertion here or there that some stock market investors may incidentally have assets in both industries.

Bill is a writer. This podcast generates income. Isn't he crossing the picket line on the writer's strike. Viola Davis was granted a waiver to do a film but refused because she didn't want to cross the picket lines. Why is Bill allowed to stab writers in the back?

“The good part of socialism.” What? Wow Bill.

Bill Maher is so old and out of touch.

Yet another Black Man making excuses for his own and all the havoc they wreak upon the world!

Ice Cube your music ain't angelic either

How many young men went to prison emulating Ice Cubes music? These kids weren't listening to country and western before they did a drive by.

Give us names Cube! You seem so knowledgeable yet you are unable to tell us names of people of company names.

Rap culture/music has always celebrated criminality. Has nothing to do with those profiting from it.