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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
You're arguing points I never made. I didn't say being a black rapper makes you an owner, I'm talking about record labels. There are tons of black owned record labels that generate revenue.
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Most of them likely on a shoe-string that likely owe money.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
Jay-Z is not just a rapper. He owns a very successful label. Kanye West, Drake, Tech N9ne, 50 Cent. Artists that own hip hop business.
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The don't "own hip hop business": they own businesses in hip hop.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I didn't say hip hop on it's own is going to save black people from disparity but it's one of the only industries that is seemingly owned by black people which is important.
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Who owns Def Jam?
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
No, I don't think a doctor has the same pull or sway or connections as Oprah ****ing Winfrey. Think about it, do you think Kim Kardashian could as easily build her business with out the connections her family had built? You think a doctor builds those same connections? **** out of here.
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For every Oprah Winfrey there are perhaps 1000 black women who tried yet many of them likely don't have 1% of her fortune: such is the nature of the business, but if 1000 blacks try to be doctors using the same effort Oprah did with her career, a good proportion will succeed—possibly a majority—and they might collectively, when they get to be her age, have more money than she and the other 1000.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
None of this even addresses the question of whether or not horrorcore labels, which are white owned and white employed, are taking hip hop industry away from black people or are they so far removed from hip hop culture that it makes no impact. Obviously you have very very little knowledge of hip hop at all so the question isn't for you.
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I've given my answer. They deal in music likely derivative of black music, but blacks don't suffer because of it—they might even be profiting a bit from it.
As for my ignorance, guilty as charged, but are you going to tell me that this ICP isn't derivative, because I think it is.