The real pain in Scoop's heart, however, is that Blacks who criticize rap are not trying to get control of rap by forming record companies and labels, video production companies, publications, and other business ventures now being capitalized on by whites. If they would do that, he says, rappers would have more access to getting record deals and can become more positive. All the people talking about how bad rap is aren't doing anything to hurt bad rap because they're not backing the positive rappers. Rap artists, on the other hand, are a potential clientele base for Blacks coming out of law school. The new Black artists go into show business for the 'show' and not for the 'business' and therefore get hoodwinked by record companies with a staff of lawyers, he says.
Rap music is a Black youth phenomena that has reached all parts of the globe.
About the social impact of rap. Yet the mindset of a large segment of African Americans refuses to believe this, and detaches itself from the responsibility of supporting the efforts made by rap artists to educate and establish a future for young Black Americans.