Comments on: Black People, Occupy Your Music!

By: Deeann D. Mathews

Deeann D. Mathews — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:08:50 +0000

Hoodgirl — I’m at work today on the article about copyright reversion, so look for it soon and get ready to SPREAD THE WORD!

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:44:34 +0000

Deeann D. Mathews we can’t wait to read your next article and thanks hoodgirl for sharing your story. We need to know more about what is really going on in the music industry and how our artists can protect themselves.

By: Deeann D. Mathews

Deeann D. Mathews — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:33:39 +0000

Hoodgirl — Good for your client’s dad! You’ve inspired my next article: there is a legal opportunity, RIGHT NOW, for a lot of Black folks to get their music back from publishing companies (and it won’t even take twenty years). I have to do a little more research before I put the info out there, but it is coming!

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:00:20 +0000

Deeann! Great job as usual.

As you can see from the comments, another white person so jealous that we still create, prevail and love ourselves despite their wanton hatred of our talents.

They are upset because their parents, whom they probably admire, hate black people for no reason, and have taught them to hate black people for no reason… It must be hard to come to terms with the fact that their parent, grandparents, aunts, uncles and great grandparents are truly the dumb monkeys.

They are also confused on how we continue to preserve ourselves even as they systematically tear us down and legally disallow us to move forward.

I always find it funny that I have NEVER found myself on a white power website, but white people are so pathetic they are ALWAYS on black sites. Even the ones that spew hatred can’t get enough of us; the true sign of jealousy. LOL.

By: hoodgirl

hoodgirl — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:55:09 +0000

Get it GIRL! I just got a new client that solicited my Financial Advisory Services in April of this year. Her dad was a reknowned jazz musician. His music is featured in films around the World. For his genius, the music industry paid him a hefty $10k and scooted him on his way. If her dad were alive today he would be in his 90s. This GENIUS knew he was being played and kept a catalog of ALL his music and passed it along to his oldest child. She fought the music industry for more than two decades before they finally acknowledged that my client as well as her mom and sibling are the rightful heirs to Daddy’s creations. Everytime I hear this Genius’ music on Sirius Satellite Radio I holla “CHA CHING” Daddy did his THANG!

By: Deeann D. Mathews

Deeann D. Mathews — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:11:20 +0000

Monkey, your comment, though not really worthy of a response, gives me occasion to put more truth out there. The thing is simple enough: Black people ARE, in fact, human. We humans, therefore, have a perfect and historically provable right, therefore, to claim that which is our own — and no European anywhere, any time, and any way has created the variety of music that sprang from roots in Africa. If people of European descent want credit for some of that music, fine… their ancestors can have credit for enslaving, kidnapping, brutalizing, raping, and murdering the very Black people who would, under those conditions, create the foundation of everything in North American music that is not just classical or European folk music rearranged. And, an honorable mention goes to those of European descent who worked and still work against slavery and for the freedom of all people; credit there also where credit is due. But, other than that, we Black humans are going to claim our part of our musical heritage — credit AND profits — and we’re not backing down because of any monkeys full of…

By: Deeann D. Mathews

Deeann D. Mathews — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:58:48 +0000

Yep, I figured I’d scare out the white supremacists with my first article — thank y’all very much for dancing to my tune! It is delightful to see how readily you will come and obey and show your obscene selves in true, living lack-of-color at the call of a Black woman, proving the power of our thought and music better than my mere article ever could!

Bitter Sylence: Go back and read Thayer’s Life of Beethoven, Vol. 1, circa 1870. Composers dedicated pieces to folks that inspired them, and for the full intent that the person, if a world-class performer, to whom the piece was dedicated would perform and promote the work. It is true that Beethoven and Bridgetower later had their differences, of course… but while you think you are contrasting the behavior of a European and a half-African, you had better read Thayer’s volumes very carefully, and go into some Germanic sources for Beethoven’s family history. You will find that the greatest of “European” composers was more closely related to Bridgetower, ethnically speaking, than you’d like to know…

Steph — great resources! Thank you for posting those!

By: Monkeyfullashit

Monkeyfullashit — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:59:20 +0000

Typical of niggers to steal human ideas and claim it for themselves. You haven’t contributed one thing to the human race except for the sharpened stick. Go kill yourselves niggers.

By: Bitter Sylence

Bitter Sylence — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:40:08 +0000

lol The only thing nigger “music” does is promote violence. Your lyrics teach your little niglets to steal, kill, do drugs, and hump anything in site. Also, Beethoven dedicated Violin Sonata No.9 to nigger Bridgetower, he did not write the piece for him. Plus, after the nigger performed Beethovens music, the two were drinking, and nigger Bridgetower insulted the morals of a woman whom Beethoven cherished. Beethoven removed the dedication. Even back then the niggers were causing trouble. Get your facts straight you ape.

By: Terrance Amen

Terrance Amen — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:15:01 +0000

Miss Mathews covered it all. How we don’t know our value or know the value of what we produce, how to protect what we produce, signing contracts that are like signing our lives away, and the quality of work we produce which influences the world. The good and the bad. Now that we know this, what are we going to do about it.

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