Thread by @AnooBhu

Thread: #BLM
For 2 weeks Ive been playing C O O L by Le Youth on loop, dancing around my house...
So many remixes... so good...

But something felt really familiar, and I couldnt place it...
Wiki says Le Youth "heavily samples" from Cassie's Me & U.

So I checked out Me & U.
#ST

2. Le Youth/ Wes James: White, American, male, DJ.
C O O L was his debut single, in 2013.

Cassie: Black, American, female, singer.
Me & U released in 2006.

When Wiki says he "heavily samples," he really does.
#BLM

3. When Wiki says he "heavily samples," he really does. Everything including the sexy way Cassie says "So cool," which is really the zing of his song and then even became the very title of his track.... this white boy has taken from Cassie.

Cassie & her team, not credited.

4. Sampling is exciting: Its an imp part of how music lives on. Its figured out how to step over copyright & stay legal. Its rampant, accepted.

But if we ran Le Youth thru a plagiarism detector, if he was making any other form of art, the detector would go *beep beep beep!!* 🚨

5. After weeks of #BlackLivesMatter, there's finally a necessary convo about how much white musicians, dancers, artists... have taken from black artists. Never credited. Appropriated. Never even considered their theft & their invisibilisation of black people.

Here's a list:

6. You on Instagram? You got to read this post by @-cahlebb!!
instagram.com/p/CCmN81oHfE0/…

Esp if youre into: "White artists like Justin Timberlake, Post Malone, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, & Billie Eilish have all released trap, rap, R&B, soul, & gospel influenced albums....."

7. Off late, Ive seen major tattoo acc delete all pics for not paying cultural credit to sources of those tattoos. Emma Portner deleted dance vid for not paying sufficient credit to black styles. Many white accs using #AmplifyMelanatedVoices &posting on black colleagues
#TimesUp

8. Many white people dedicating space on their accounts, platforms, to intentionally de-platform themselves and platform black voices.

#TimesUp
#BLM