black musicians published music under pseudonyms to appeal to larger audiences, black artists nowadays barely have to try for their music to end up in the hands of white consumers. In fact, white audiences are begging for black culture; they spend hundreds of dollars on Kendrick Lamar concert tickets, $20/month for Jay Z’s streaming service TIDAL, and $350 retail price for Kanye West’s Yeezy sneakers.
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on March 28, 1774.
