Russ
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Like, yo, y'all should own your music.
Yo, you know what I'm saying?
Like, fuck giving Gucci 30 grand.
Put 30 grand into your merch.
Well, that's like that's the reality.
Yeah, of course.
I've had to come back on that a lot.
Being a white dude in black culture coming through talking about why don't y'all own y'all shit?
You need to own... Comes off insane.
And you don't want to hear it from me because historically I'm the oppressor.
Right.
You feel me?
So it comes off like the oppressor telling us why are you oppressed?
And it's like...
There's nothing I can do at this stage of the game.
There's nothing me personally, Russell Vitale can do about that.
What I feel like, though, is if I'm going to make money off of black culture, it's my responsibility to contribute something that can help.
I agree.