I know that for many of you being exploited is your default. For me, slavery power relations are over and it is important for people in general Black people in particular to be kind to BLACK artists.
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Thread re Puff, Mase, Kelis and Pharrell and the music industry. I am an old head. And here is the thing. As a manager and exec you can make sure that everybody eats.
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Black artists have the unique ability to make this cruel and vicious world tolerable. Especially Black musicians. They help keep our spirits alive.
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To repay them with “you shoulda read the the fine print” is cruel and anti-Black.
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All of this music discourse needs to take into consideration how Black artists came up. MTV initially refused to play Micheal Jackson- too Black.
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Furthermore, Black music is Black intellectual production so to say “they ain’t read the fine print” is particularly cruel because we used ORAL cultures when reading and writing WAS illegal for enslaved Black people.
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I write books about hip hop, race and feminism as well. You can buy them on amazon or request them at your local libraries 
https://www.amazon.com/Renina-Jarmon/e/B00E0L9664%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share …pic.twitter.com/rZlJ1evNSL
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@BarryMichaelC. I am building a hip hop culture class. Maybe you can Skype in
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Furthermore go look at why Cube and DMX started doing movies. You get your money upfront in films, oftentimes despite whether or not the movie is released.
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Zora. Zora Neale Hurston Died penniless. She gave us films, Their Eyes, Tea Cake And Janie. And she died penniless. I think about this often.
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