I'm thinking specifically of Ariana Grande, this latest album, "Positions," which was co-written by one of her best friends, and somebody who I think has one of the best pens in the game right now is Victoria Monet. Even if you look on the pop charts right now, so many artists who are considered titans of the game right now wouldn't be anything and they wouldn't have a song to string together if it wasn't for their Black writers. You could think of Elvis and where he took a lot of his stage presence from, where he took a lot of his bravado and conviction and his lines from, even some of the storytelling in his music ― it was stolen directly from Black descendants like Chuck Berry.
And if you go back to people like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who is considered one of the godmothers of rock 'n' roll, many people didn't know who she was. Over 60 years of recorded music history from Aretha Franklin & Led Zeppelin to Bruno Mars & Ed. Madden: Theft of Black creativity is something that is in the bedrock of American society. What's one fact about the American music industry that often flies under the radar?
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