Who Own Hip Hop?

Who owns hip hop? Is it black people? White people? Jewish people? Masons? The government?

Well it sure ain't black people. Even tho hip hop, as well as most music genres, were made by black musicians, they don't own none of it. How many black owned radio stations are there? Shout out to LL, who owns one Rock The Bells Radio. Does he own Sirius tho? Jay-Z, the epitimy of rap success. Does he own his music company? Sure, he owns Roc Nation... A subsidiary of Live Nation. So even he has a boss.

Does the white man own hip hop? Most of the sales are to white listeners. So do they control it? Kinda. A lot of hip hop has been catered to a white audience. If that's who's buying the albums, naturally, rappers catered to the crowd more and more. And the companies are owned by these rich white guys. What kind of white guy tho? The average white guy doesn't own shit in hip hop either.

People will say the Jews own hip hop. In history the Jewish have owned many of the record companies since the early 1900s and even before. Look up who founded all the major labels. Now these Jewish people put up their money and invested their money and time into these businesses and made them into something. Rightfully, they should own them. They took musicians who were just playing music on the streets (hip hop especially) and made superstars. Hip hop was just music played in the park until business-minded Jews said, Hey why give this away? We can make some money.

Great, right? Well, then why are none of the artists getting what they should be earning? It should be 50/50. The Jews handle business, and the artists handle the music. Together a lot of people were making money. Think of how many people were employed by the music industry from rappers, to singers, writers, djs, lawyers, ceos, a&rs, ect, street teams, to random people. Now 90% of those jobs are gone. What jobs remain? The rappers and the boss. The boss aint doin the work, so who does the work? The artist. So now the artist is doin 90% of the work, getting 10% of the profits.

The benefit of being singed was never the money. (Look up why most rappers are broke mtv special.) It was the ability to get your name out there. Use their platforms, (TV, movies, magazines) and make a name for yourself. Then you can promote almost anything and sell it based on your popularity. Think of a 50 Cent of Jay-Z, it always side ventures. Clothing, movies, drinks....That's the only benefit of being mainstream. Again it was never the money and its not the popularity itself. I don't know anybody talkin how great being famous is. Seems opposite, how shitty it is.

Artists then go independent and make their money. Well they should. Notice these rappers fall off without their platforms and promotion? No rapper can make it without these labels because they ban them from all their platforms.

An artist doesn't need radio and tv to be successful. Doesn't need a label to put out music. But a label needs artists to exist. If we stop lending them our talent, they can't exist. Yet we all run toward the fame. That's all they have to offer. A spot on their TV station. We have the internet. Even that has been taken over. Notice all these podcasts getting popular overnite? That's becuase those ones are signed. Youtube and streaming sites are the new record business and they're not goin' to promote you if you're not down with them.

So again who own hip hop? White people? Kinda. Jewish people? Kinda, but the synagogue ain't discussing hip hop business. Its a certain kind of rich, white, jew-"ish" person.
You know who really own hip hop? Us. You. The people. The streets. If we take it back to independence, they can't own it. Stop signing to label. Make your own. Stop going on platforms that don't pay. Make your own site. Don't go on podcast interviews that exploit the culture, film your own so you own it and control the narrative.

The artists own hip hop. They decide what the current sound is and make the material people can listen to. Without artists, (producers, writers, singers, rappers,, there is no music.)

Next is the DJs. Djs can make music, also they PLAY music. They decide what gets played. At least they used to. Nowdays radio stations stick to a select playlist of approved songs. Even oldschool stations play the same 10 songs. You have 30 years of music to choose from! Play something different!

The listeners own hip hop. They control what is hot and what is not. They are the bottom line. And they don't need DJs anymore because they are the DJ. They make their own playlists, and can listen to almost any song at any time. The people are in control. And that's how it should be. You can no longer force something that's not hot anymore. You can't force people to listen to that song on the radio. They have more options. They don't even have to be limited buying the CDs at the store. The internet has everything. Right?

Well, the internet used to be a great place to find music. Still is, but a lot of stuff has actually been taken DOWN. That's right down. Take the music back to the streets, to the people. The internet ain't the wild west anymore. Its too stale. Too regulated. Boring. Time to shake this shit up again.