Complex sentence: Associated with illegality, police raids, sex and a desperately impoverished working class, marabi was thought of as a corrupting menace and for this reason, it is no surprise that no early marabi musicians were recorded.
Split into simpler sentences: Associated with illegality, police raids, sex and a desperately impoverished working class, marabi was vilified as a corrupting menace. It is no surprise, then, that no early marabi musicians were recorded.