I grew up next to a housing development where the music labels put artists to keep them out of trouble. Easy E lived in a gated house in a gated community on top of a hill with Ice Cube, which was inside of another gated community where Ice T lived and could be seen waxing his Delorean most weekends.
I find it unlikely the FBI needed to keep tabs on any of these people, since private security forces were already doing that.
