In reply to blue.

Crazy how people downplay the ownership of artist's master recordings... #smh For the longest time in the music industry, Black people were not even ALLOWED to claim any ownership of their artistry! They even had their work outright stolen and re-recorded with White faces/voices and denied ANY of the profit! Are people really that ignorant and foolish to not know how far we (Black) people have come in terms of owning our work and claiming it's reward?! Slavery, anyone?!?!? C'mon.

Don't try to downplay Rihanna being named Artist Of The Decade because of the incessant hits she's produced and (because she's lasted 10 full successful years in the business) are now able to buy back her masters and profit from them, wholly, herself! THAT'S MAJOR! SOOO many of other's faves STILL can NOT claim that! Black, White, or "Other". I'm proud of Rihanna and all that she's accomplished in the last 10+ years. I'm also just as proud to see another Black woman making major moves, on her own terms, and cashing in on it versus any and everybody feeding off her tit or trying to pimp her out for their gain.

Rihanna owns her own record label (Roc Nation does distributing & management), her own styling/fashion/beauty agency, her own photography agency, and LORD knows what else. She even capitalized on her last name by trademarking it and creating "Fenty" branded products, like her PUMA Creepers. She trademarked her name early last year. I'm just SOOOO proud of seeing Rihanna really run things in her world as her own woman. I can't even tell you.

This Glass John guy appears to be having a full-on mental breakdown on Twitter at Rihanna and Travis Scott's expense because, just like Azealia, it seems that ANTI is probably finalized now and they got notified their tracks didn't make it. But, looking back at Glass Johns' tweets, he sounds a bit unstable to begin with. I hope he gets the help he seemingly needs.