Who Owns Black Music?
Dissecting the complicated heritage of a quintessential American genre
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12 min readSep 8, 2020
The first Vinyl record I owned was Kanye West’s “College Dropout.”
I found it in 2015 at a record shop and raced back to my dorm to listen to it with a friend on her record player. After listening to both sides, I was blown away. I was captivated by the storytelling and the raw…