Back to Kanye v Beyonce briefly.

It's interesting that he thinks the industry is bending over backwards to help her rig things when it's been doing the opposite.

To some extent, she's being punished by Top 40 radio for not jumping on its trends.

And has taken several hits for talking about things the industry often encourages artists to stay away from.

Azealia Banks was the first artist (of this Pop class) to discuss racism as openly as she did. So Beyonce can't take all the credit.

And most of them are struggling to find their footing today even though R&B is in style again.

Kanye knows how much easier Beyonce's life would be if the industry bent over backwards for her as much as he says it does.

Around 2011 some of the biggest R&B acts were under pressure to drop EDM hits because they thought it'd help album sales.

They got the hits but isolated their core fans who could sense that the decisions they were making more tactical than musical.

Their albums tanked because the people they were targeting with their singles were only interested in their singles.

After IASF Beyonce was under the same pressure to pop out Single Ladies-sized hits.

And most of them are struggling to find their footing today even though R&B is in style again.

At the time, R&B songs and writers weren't "worth" much because the genre wasn't in demand.

She asked Sony to look out for any new R&B writers to submit ideas for self-titled.

Instead of closing her doors to new talent, she sent beats she liked around to anyone who wanted to jump on them.

I submitted a song through Sony ATV. It didn't make the album...

But the demo still exists. That alone has helped me to pick up writing work almost four years later.