The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officers has the United States in a frenzy, but that's not the only thing getting people worked up.
Today, the music industry-recognized "Blackout Tuesday," in which record labels, streaming companies, artists, and more would not post any content, but only a black square to their social profiles.
While a lot of people were on board with this plan, quite a few music industry producers and artists were against it, including Lil Nas X.
According to music producer Kenny Beats and Hit-Boy, record labels should be doing more to give back to the black community, and suggested that they have been enslaving black artists for years.
These labels posting black squares today
— kennybeats (@kennybeats) June 2, 2020
- sign black artists to 5
+ album deals
- put language in the contract that music must be “commercial satisfactory”
- then deem everything a “mixtape” and count no albums towards the deal
- own the masters + all their art
slavery
Wish these labels were as creative with ways to help black artists as they are with the 200 page 360 deal contacts they enslave their art and careers with
— kennybeats (@kennybeats) June 2, 2020