Who Owns the Music No One Preserved?

<p>Subscribe: <a href="https://linktr.ee/RealRandR">https://linktr.ee/RealRandR</a></p><p>AJ and Antonio dig into who really owns African music that Western labels and collectors traveled in to digitize and distribute — walking through Analog Africa in Benin, the Éthiopiques series, and PMG in Nigeria — then argue out what &quot;fair&quot; even means when the preservation is the only reason the catalog has value at all. Plus Snoop&#39;s biopic through Death Row Pictures, and Tyla&#39;s APOP.</p><p>0:00 – When did you last buy a record?<br>1:00 – The $10 Marvin Gaye record that started it<br>2:10 – Analog Africa: hiring a cop to find artists and pay them<br>3:20 – Éthiopiques: preserving a decade, buying the rights<br>4:00 – PMG in Nigeria and the unpaid-artist accusations<br>5:00 – Who gets paid, and what does &quot;fair&quot; mean?<br>9:00 – Does the artist always deserve the majority?<br>11:00 – &quot;If a tree falls&quot; — distribution as the real leverage<br>13:30 – Is an archiver a creator too?<br>16:00 – Finding a &quot;different don&quot;<br>18:00 – Snoop Dogg&#39;s biopic (Death Row Pictures, 2027)<br>20:30 – Tyla, APOP, and the &quot;whitewashing&quot; question<br>22:45 – One for the playlist: &quot;Trouble&quot;</p><p>R&amp;R is Modern Radio for global black sounds.</p>