What if I told you that America's most iconic music - rock and roll, blues, jazz - was created by Black artists who died broke while white performers became millionaires? What if I told you that Elvis Presley made over a million dollars from "Hound Dog" while Big Mama Thornton, who wrote and first recorded it, got paid five hundred dollars total and never saw another dime?
This is the story they don't want you to know. How Black people turned pain into power. How they took the scraps of freedom they had in churches and juke joints and transformed them into sounds so incredible that the whole world can't stop listening today.
But here's what really gets me fired up - for over four decades, white America systematically stole the genius of Black artists, repackaged their innovations, and built billion-dollar empires while the original creators died in poverty. They've spent generations profiting off these stolen sounds while pretending they just magically appeared from white performers.
Well, today we're setting the record straight. This isn't just about music theft. This is about exposing the racist machine that turned Black excellence into white wealth, and giving flowers to the forgotten legends who actually built America's musical foundation.