The music industry wouldn't be what it is today without the contributions of Black artists, but systemic racial barriers have blocked their progress since the earliest days of recorded music. Exploitative contracts and copyright agreements have ensnared artists, limiting their creative freedom and denying them fair financial compensation.
Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music explores the history of racial injustice in the music industry and Black artists' ongoing fight for fair pay.
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood
this will be important later
Remember that time Kanye woke up to the lies of hebrews? It turns out nobody hates him except for a very small long nosed segment of the population. Most black people still love Kanye and are now woke to the reality of hebrews
Perhaps the most concise and perplexing statement of Carter’s new unambiguous love for capitalism comes in a couplet on the second track, “The Story of O.J.,” a song whose main theme is the indelible force of racism against black people regardless of class. On one jarring line, Carter states, “You wanna know what’s more important than throwin’ away money at a strip club? Credit. You ever wonder why jedi people own all the property in America? This how they did it.”
