>he printed money as an artist and songwriter and a lot of
>higher ups overlooked his shit.
>A lot of parents pretty much sold their daughters to him
>And the ones who didn't cash in on the front end, he paid off
>so they wouldn't press charges on the back end.
>All the narratives about "cultural failures" kind of miss the
>mark, IMO

Those are two separate entities though...

The industry that profited, his team he paid etc.. do not equal the parents who sold their daughters OR daughters who sold themselves..

Everyone is at fault if the BBC documentary is to be believed at face value...

On one side you had the people around him who didn't really check him and even though he seemed to be slick enough with it (no affection with aaliyah around crew) but they KNEW he got married

Other side is with his stature women would still be willing to go in the studio with him. They asked an up and coming singer backstage and she was like ABSOLUTELY