obviously it was pennies compared to what their white counterparts were getting to perform in front whites,but from the perspective of artist who weren't being fairly paid they were appreciative. Which is why I said the same mistake shouldn't happen twice,yet we still see this today. Black artist actually selling their souls and pandering to whites for pennies,in comparison to what white counterparts are making. At least black artist back then got to keep their soul in tact,just lacked knowledge of contracts or were flat out robbed in most cases.
But it is an insult and rewrite of history,when blacks today try to pretend blacks back then were pushed out of anything,we weren't pushed out of shyt by whites. They stole from us and made money among there people while we made money and saw success among ours.
Now obviously you can't compare black buying power of the 50's to black buying power of today,so there is really no excuse for us to even be tempted to make the same mistakes our predeccessors did,other than pure greed and not seeing the bigger picture. The only difference is there was more black ownership and segregated black communities at the time so our dollars were more likely to go to black people. If we had the heart to segregate ourselves we wouldn't be dying broke today,so thats a mute point,theres no excuse now. They died broke back then because they didn't know how devilish the white man was and had no recourse.
that song with cardi b sounds like something that would have been on a Black movie soundtrack from 1992. and the song he made that he basically took trinidad james' hook like 2 months after james' song came out.
Iggy Azalea never got a pass for being 1 of T.I.'s artists or being managed by Roc Nation.
