Jerry Heller invented modern gangsta rap as a way to glorify crack cocaine to inner city blacks... the CIA needed to create a customer base for its product so it could fund off-book operations like Noriega's dictatorship or other narco groups in LatAm that would destabilize countries. If you went along with it (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg) they will make a multimillionaire; if you don't (Easy E) they make you dead.