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Originally posted by J03Y
firstly there's always racism, but that doesn't necessarily mean even where the music industry is concerned it's that black or white???
like the entire 2000s decade was nearly dominated by black artists, things don't just all of a sudden change and revert to racism simply because one black artist didn't get a number one single or didn't get too high on a chart, like the charts show what songs are popular and what songs people are willing to listen to most -- if a certain artist doesn't show the right numbers then they just aren't high enough to make a #1 and it shouldn't have to matter whether or not said artist is black it's stupid. race isn't a factor as to an artist's success, the past three decades can attest to that.
everywhere you go there's is going to be racism at some point but to suggest racism in the music industry because last year didn't have one super popular enough single is literally the dumbest **** i have ever heard. the music industry embraces different kinds of artists and the GP has shown in the past that your race or ethnicity has no bearing on whether your song hits it big or not -- it's about whether or not people LIKE the song that much.
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I've been reading this book called The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, and it's becoming more and more apparent that the elite control the popular mind, not the people. Black people didn't dominate the 2000's, they ddi dominate 2004 but that is because you had a lot of influential black record label owners and what not putting the work in and working together. In the 60s, there were a lot of popular black Rock artists (The pioneers of Rock n Roll) and just like how they successfully eradicated the black face off of rock, the music industry is trying to push blacks out of RnB. Just look at what they are doing to the Urban charts. The agenda is clear.