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Originally posted by JonathanLGardner
No. Get your's straight.
Billboard's Power 100 says differently
95%+ of the label execs/100 most powerful people in music are....WHITE...and MALE. There are handful of non-white male people on the list.
Considering that black Americans virtually birthed pop music by creating and innovating all of the following styles themselves (even though comparitvely mediocre white artists have tried to claim them as their's): gospel, soul, folk, r&b, rock n' roll and hip-hop/
Considering this, it's very odd how saturated the power list is by white people when blacks have created all of the popular styles that comprise "pop" music. It's also odd how little diversity of black artists there is considering this and their marginilation to only 2 style - r&b/hip-hop.
Yet white people can be found to dominate every single genre. How is this fair?
Wlack people created the styles, white people copy and claim it as their own, thus pushing black artists out of that style. |
We are not talking about execs. This was in response to Beyonce as an artist shining above in a white industry.
But black women have the most weeks at #1. Michael Jackson is the second best selling artist of all time. Whitney Houston, Prince, Kanye, Jay Z, and countless others dominate the most successful artists alongside whites - far greater a percent of the top artist than the 13% of African Americans that make up our population.
The best selling song last year was sung by a Filipino man. The entire top 14 of sales this week were black artists. The highest grossing tours are very evenly split between black and white aritsts.
Wanna talk about execs then sure it's basically biased towards whites outside of rnb and rap. But if we're talking about artists - which is what my original post was about - then it's far more evenly split and blacks represent a huge portion.
maybe YOU should take a deep breath of fresh air sis?
all I say is it's a good album but not the best album of all time and your insecure selves HAVE to jump on my comment. If you were so proud of your fave slaying on every front why would you have to even have to reply to me?
Love Drought below Sandcastles? Jeeze. Not at it being the lowest charting song besides the interlude. 
Still, that's insane. Hold Up, 6 Inch + DHY def deserve to all be singles along with Freedom.
