Pls miss us with the major record label “we stand with you” posts. They have NOTORIOUSLY abused black talent and stolen to benefit white artists. That IS the design of the industry. There is not a black artists EVER who has been paid or awarded what they are worth.
Late AF.

We been fighting for equal pay, equal exposure, better representation, better contracts, ownership of our craft, fair award ceremonies, non-biased radio & streaming plays, in biased genre reporting. BEEN FIGHTING, since Little Richards heyday.
y’all are late as fuck.

In general, all the new ideas,songs, platforms, dances, etc that black artists will make in honor of this troubled era will be owned, controlled, used & abused by everyone but blacks people in the music industry.
Please.

There is not a black A&R, Manager, label exec, lawyer that doesn’t have stories of deliberate acts of bigotry to control and exploit black art. This is no secret, we’ve all been complicit.
It is what it is, but please don’t insult the moment w/ a bullshit “we care” campaign.

A day of silence ain’t changing the outdated laws on The Hill that disproportionately hurt black musicians. It doesn’t change the shitty contracts still being offered to starry eyed young geniuses, or the stolen publishing, the unfair algorithms, the racially coded “genres” etc.

We know because we’ve signed those deals and been used too, we’ve been in in board rooms and heard the convos, comforted fellow musicians who’ve been denied what they deserve, spoken to music legends (both black & white) who’ve shown us it hasn’t changed.

when we say not one black musician has ever been compensated fairly for what they’ve truly contributed to this country we mean NOT ONE.
Not MJ, not Beyonce, not Prince, Not Mariah, not Quincy, not Whitney, not Aretha, not Diddy, not Rihanna, not Motown...all the way down the list

If “silence is not an option” then talk about some real shit. Keep that same energy to do something about the “knee on the neck” of minority creatives.
....Cuz most of them can’t fucking breathe!

Not being radical, being truthful.
For dramatic effect, here’s a “Dreamgirls” example with all your faves in it.



VERZUZ



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