Blackout show
October 27, 2020

Unpaid Royalties: How the music industry exploits the Black musicians who built it

Vice started a series called Unpaid Royalties about the myriad ways that the music industry exploits Black artists, and what's being done to change them. They started with a selection of the three most common types of contracts an artist might sign today, offering a window into how the “bad deal” isn’t an anomaly - it’s by design.