Rapper Ice Cube shared a theory with talk show host Bill Maher about a financial connection between rap music encouraging criminality and the private prison system that needs inmates to turn a profit.spoke on Bill Maher’s"Club Random" podcast and alleged there is a financial connection between the rap music industry and private prisons.
"It's weird how the names always changing every so like 20 or 30 years somebody wants to put a new label on the same thing," Ice Cube said. He went on to suggest that petty debates like this are forced on society to divide people and prevent them from questioning the problems they all should unite to address.
Ice Cube alleged that the"same people who own the [record labels] own the prisons," noting that,"It seems really kind of suspicious, if you want to say that word, that the records that come out are really geared to push people towards that prison industry.""But they didn't make you write those lyrics," he said.