In the book The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: U.S. Intelligence’s Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm, The Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers & Linked Ethnic Leftists, it is claimed that Death Row Records was a front for the FBI in order to subvert black activism.
Columbia University graduate John Potash, the book’s author, says his research shows that the FBI deliberately target Tupac Shakur due to his influence in the African-American community through Hip Hop.
“What I think it was was that he had become the most influential black man in the black community in the country,” Potash, a Baltimore native, told The Baltimore City Paper. “The CIA and U.S. intelligence, what they have to do is win the hearts and minds of the people. They don’t want to control us by force, they want us to control ourselves by having us believe in a certain way–that we don’t need national health care, for example. And here, Tupac was threatening to win over the hearts and minds of people, he was able to counter so much of the propaganda in the black community.”
The book includes the results of ten years of research, court testimony, FBI documents, and numerous documents from The Black Panthers provided to Potash.
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“I believe that Death Row Records, which included dozens and dozens of police officers at all levels, according to a high-level police officer that investigated them, was a front company and was trying to continue penal coercion and mess up [Tupac Shakur’s] head,” added Potash.
A research documentary is paired with the book, which is in stores now.
