Who Owns the Music No One Preserved?

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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 "fair" even means when the preservation is the only reason the catalog has value at all. Plus Snoop's biopic through Death Row Pictures, and Tyla's APOP.

0:00 – When did you last buy a record?
1:00 – The $10 Marvin Gaye record that started it
2:10 – Analog Africa: hiring a cop to find artists and pay them
3:20 – Éthiopiques: preserving a decade, buying the rights
4:00 – PMG in Nigeria and the unpaid-artist accusations
5:00 – Who gets paid, and what does "fair" mean?
9:00 – Does the artist always deserve the majority?
11:00 – "If a tree falls" — distribution as the real leverage
13:30 – Is an archiver a creator too?
16:00 – Finding a "different don"
18:00 – Snoop Dogg's biopic (Death Row Pictures, 2027)
20:30 – Tyla, APOP, and the "whitewashing" question
22:45 – One for the playlist: "Trouble"

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