Black people and songwriting credits...

Amanda Riddell

35 minutes ago

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Several months of working with the Jacksons has convinced me that racism is still real. Jermaine says that he wrote a lot of his songs, but wasn't credited. Janet got more credit, but still thinks she's underrated as a musician. Randy produces rather than taking credit. - Jermaine says that Billy Strayhorn used to sell his songs to hit writers. Berlin, Arlen etc. - Point is that they could transcribe my symphony melodies as fast as I could. As I said, that's what Jermaine did for Michael before Brad.

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