Since the early 20th-century minstrel shows, where white musicians performed appropriated music in black face, some things have stayed the same: white artists are often more commercially successful than the black artists who are being parodied.
White artists receiving the kudos for black art are as entrenched in music as hooks and refrains – no, I’m not talking about Macklemore winning the Best Rap Album at the 2014 Grammys, it’s far deeper than that. The truth is, music labels and artists alike have built their empires on black creators in more ways than we’re willing to acknowledge. You cannot imagine modern music without its African influences. Kanye's soliloquy compared the industry to a "modern-day slave ship," and while this analogy might seem characteristically sensational, the rapper got one thing right: music is indebted to black people. During a recent Twitter spree, Kanye West called out the music industry and labels' exploitation of Black artists.
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