Whitney Webb’s Terrifying Discovery: “The Truth Is Way Worse Than I Thought” (Video)

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Credit to Katie Halper for their great interview with Whitney Webb.

Behind the glamour of hip hop’s commercial ascent, this investigation traces a darker architecture of power—one that links music industry consolidation, organized crime legacies, intelligence scandals, and the same billionaire networks that orbited Jeffrey Epstein. What emerges is not simply a story about individual misconduct, but about how cultural industries may have been reshaped by financial and political forces operating far beyond the recording studio.

At the center is the so-called “Mega Group,” reportedly formed in 1991 by Leslie Wexner and Charles Bronfman—a circle of billionaires later referenced by The Wall Street Journal. Wexner, long identified as Jeffrey Epstein’s primary patron, built a network that intersected with major entertainment assets through figures such as Laurence Tisch and the Bronfman family. Through holdings tied to MCA, Warner, CBS, and Def Jam, this circle occupied commanding heights of media and music just as hip hop was becoming a dominant commercial force.

The discussion argues that this consolidation overlapped with longstanding organized crime conduits in the recording industry—names like Morris Levy and the infrastructure surrounding early labels such as Sugar Hill Records. It further connects these developments to allegations surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs and rival executives, tracing mentorship lines back to Russell Simmons and industry relationships that extended into Hollywood via director Brett Ratner. Ratner’s partnerships—including ventures with financier James Packer—and his public proximity to figures such as Benjamin Netanyahu and attorney Alan Dershowitz illustrate how entertainment, political influence, and global capital often converge.

The broader claim moves beyond personalities to policy. It situates the alleged cultural “engineering” of violent themes in 1990s hip hop alongside the expansion of private prisons and the passage of the 1994 crime bill under Bill Clinton. Companies such as The GEO Group—formerly Wackenhut—are placed within a lineage that includes the PROMIS software scandal and the shadow networks exposed during Iran-Contra. Investigative journalist Gary Webb’s reporting on crack cocaine trafficking and intelligence complicity is invoked to argue that drugs, weapons flows, prison expansion, and media narratives may have functioned as mutually reinforcing systems rather than isolated scandals.