>most times when I've seen it, its the media machine making
>shit up.
>
>it seems like when something crosses over, then the media
>attribute the popularity to the white artists without giving
>credit, but I don't generally see the artists saying, yeah I
>invented funk.
>
>if the artist is silent about how the media is false
>messaging, that's an issue too.


Some artists may hear a style from someone small time and then use their status to make it blow up. Then they claim they created it.

Or they act like no prior artists influenced whatever they're doing.

Or they try to erase cultural history from music. I hate people who say that "Hip Hop isn't black music, it's for everyone!"

But you're probably right that the machine has more to do with this than anything.