Most major rappers have corporate sponsors and these sponsors wont allow them to say certain controversial things. It's either their label, alcohol company, clothing line, shoemaker, video game distributor, soda company etc. Their contracts come with strings attached. Of course if a rapper had a deal with Nike, they couldn't be out doing shoes rockin' Reebok. Nor could they publically endorse their rivals brand. That's a string attached to the deal that could cause them to lose their deal. You don't think that would be a clause in their contract?
Now, let's think about how a corporation may be in bed with police interest and how what a rapper says can jeopardize them potentially millions. You seen the new Snoop ads where they are putting pressure on gun manufactures via 401 k plans?
https://www.youtube.com/v/Y5K-Ti6tQzA
It's not a game, they trying to put these people out of business! The police unions could orchestrate similar tactics on a corporation if one of the rappers signed to them gets out of line. We have witnessed several instances of the homosexual powers causing people to lose endorsement deals based on what they have said.
Young Buck exposed how Interscope wouldn't let him drop a song about cops but of course they allowed his normal content of killing everyone else.
"About a week or so ago, rapper Young Buck made an appearance on New York's Hot 97's Angie Martinez's show to promote his new album "Buck the World", the first single of which is incredible (I love that record).
You know, it was pretty much your typical rap interview except for one revealing exchange in particular. This was when Young Buck spoke of a record addressing Police Brutality that unfortunately did not make the record? It was said in the interview that Interscope Records (home of Dr. Dre's Aftermath, Shady Records; Emenim, G Unit; 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck; The Lox; Jadakiss, Styles and Sheik, amongst others) has an official "Lyrics Committee."
Buck stated that it was this Interscope "lyrics committee" (more like committee of ONE person; Jimmy Iovine) that decided it best to leave the police brutality track off of the album. Their reasoning being, that they [Interscope/Jimmy Iovine] felt the record that portrayed violence against police officers could heighten the chances of a police officer getting shot or killed and that, Interscope did not want to be responsible in whole or in part for the death of a police officer. The interview went sort of like this:
Angie: There's this wild video on youtube that I just got a little clip of its called f the police
Buck: oh yeah, they wouldn't let me put that record on my album
Angie: too violent
Buck: They said it was too violent; Interscope
Angie: Interscope said too violent
Buck: they blamed it on the lyric committee, so I researched to see if it was a real lyrical committee
Angie: no they didn't
Buck: It was the lyric committee
Angie: they said the lyric committee said you can't put this out
Buck: So I went as far as trying to find out well who is the lyric committee
Angie: shut up
Buck: the lyric committee is in Interscopes building
Angie: is there really a lyrics committee, no
Buck: you tell me
Angie: nahh there's not, I'm telling you its not, that's your man Jimmy Iovine saying I don't want to deal with that
Now isn't this just fucking beautiful! A "Lyrics Committee" designed to monitor (read censor) lyrics of artist on the Interscope roster? The question I present to Interscope, the Hip Hop and Black Communities is, if Interscope sees something wrong with a rapper releasing a record addressing police brutality (because Wal-Mart won't except the record) due to fear of violence against police officers, why then is it common place to spend millions of dollars marketing the other 12 tracks on the rappers album that may heighten the violence in the black community against young blackmen, women and children????"
http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/rbg-street-scholars-think-tank/22816-informing-hip-hop-community-interscopes-lyric-committee-wise-intelligent.html
The same thing happened with Tupac even though he spoke in detail about killing cops numerous times, interscope still got at him.
Tupac's "Holler If Ya Hear Me" Message, Video Director Alleges
“There was one sequence where he pulled a gun out on an officer and a little girl in the back seat goes free,” Blake says in the interview. “Originally, the way I shot that, he killed the cop and his badge fell down in slow motion. The record label was very nervous about that.”
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.31778/title.interscope-records-censored-2pacs-holler-if-ya-here-me-message-video-director-alleges
There was controversy recently over Maino and Uncle Murder's video titled 'Don't Shoot' because in part, they had guns pointed at cops. Yet each rapper routinely raps about shooting and killing and no one ever says a word.
The connections between the prison industrial complex and the music industry have been discussed in the past. There is a relationship there and of course law enforcement plays a role. Even Freeway Rick Ross said that the person who presided over his case used to work for Universal records and the person who he was suing, William Roberts III(the rapper Rick Ross) used to be a corrections officer for the prison industrial complex. He lost that case btw.