Suge Knight, mastermind of one of the greatest dynasties in '90s hip-hop, ruled his empire with an iron fist. While many forum dwellers and tape traders have claimed to have heard the freestyle in question, no one has ever actually coughed up the audio. "Rock da boat, rock da boat/ That's one less bitch in a Rocawear coat/ D-Block motherfucker, man who better than us?/ If your man die tomorrow you can bet it was us/ Who the fuck is you trying for/ A bunch of pretty faggots you can die on a tour." The bar that goes around in most rumor circles is: The conspiracy: Styles, rapping over a instrumental of "Jigga That Nigga," dissed Aaliyah after her death as a shot at Roc-A-Fella CEO Dame Dash, with whom Aaliyah had a relationship. But the crux of this conspiracy lies in a little heard freestyle from Styles P. But the lyrical scuffle between State Property and D-Block was almost as memorable.īeanie Sigel and his rowdy crew of street MC's took on D-Block and their extended family on what seemed like every mixtape from 2001 to the tail end of 2002.
The year was 2001, and the hip-hop power struggle in the Tri State area hit a fever pitch. For more on the American Prison system, you're better off reading The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness than some extremely suspicious internet rumor. Our exploding prison system doesn't need a conspiracy to operate it works out in the open, and it's called the War on Drugs. The worst part about this myth is that it propogates the notion that our current incarceration rates-which are completely out of control and higher than any other country in the world today-are the result of the culture of those incarcerated, rather than a systemic effort to contain an entire class of citizens. The story discusses a meeting held in 1991 between "industry insiders" who had invested in private prisons, and decided that gangster rap would be the perfect style of music to promote criminal culture and shunt the country's youth into prisons-thus leading to greater profits. "The Secret Meeting That Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation" is one of the more pernicious myths in hip-hop history.
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