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Record label execs should be sued and incarcerated for promoting black genocide

3,718 views · Published 6 September 2014 · 13:50 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: The Dr Boyce Watkins Black Excellence Channel · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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As I've always stated, I'm a huge fan of hip-hop. I fell in love with the musical art form at the age of 11 and have been listening to it ever since. 

I've also become familiar with the power of hip-hop to transform minds and communities, creating realities that we may have never thought possible in the past.  This power can be used for extraordinary good, but it can also be used for unparalleled amounts of evil. 

With this in mind, I saw a recent video by Bobby Shmurda, an artist signed by Epic Records.  The video consists of the standard formula of hip-hop self-destruction:  Consistent references to black men blowing each other's brains out, drugs and alcohol, referring to women as b*tches and hoes, wasting money at every opportunity, and nearly every other thing that a black man can do in order to ruin his entire life.  

Then, I noticed the number of views that the video received:  Over 14 million.  This was surprising, since it's extremely rare for an underground, unsigned artist to get that many views on a Youtube clip.  My suspicion was that this young man's genocidal message had received backing from some big (typically white) corporation that stood to profit from young black males being trained to murder one another. 

That company is Epic Records.  

In addition to the money that Epic Records is going to earn from Bobby Shmurda's success, I noticed that even Beyonce did the "Shmoney Dance" on stage at a recent concert.   Established rappers such as TI and Young Jeezy did remixes to his song "Hot N*gga."  So, it appears that some artists and companies are willing to back anything that appears to be popular, no matter how toxic and destructive it might be.  

The funny thing about all this is that just a few weeks ago, millions of black people were aligned to protest the shooting of Michael Brown by the Ferguson Police Department.  At the same time, we are supporting artists being signed by big corporations that are making a direct profit by promoting genocidal activity amongst African American teens. 

Does anyone else see just how sick this is?  

My argument is that the artist, Bobby Shmurda, is a young kid who probably doesn't understand the impact of his actions.  He's following the crowd, his father is incarcerated, and he's just trying to make money.  

But the ones who can be held accountable are the adults who are enabling this music, signing massive checks for the promotion of the most destructive homicidal force since Nazi propaganda that led to the mass extermination of the Jews. 

Black people, in case you haven't noticed, many of our young people are being exterminated.  They are filling the prisons and caskets faster than they can build them, and at the end of every homicide is some wealthy man laughing and cashing a massive paycheck.  

These companies, Epic Records for example, should be sued.  They should be sued for the promotion of toxic products in the same way that tobacco companies were sued for selling poisonous cigarettes.  If I were to start a record label and pay artists to repeatedly say "Gay men should be killed," that company would be shut down faster than you can say the word "vulture." 

I hope there are black attorneys who agree with what I say.  I am going to talk to some of my legal friends about this, because this is getting ridiculous.

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