Worldwide Ty reflects on how being Black in America shapes everything from how he speaks to his sense of belonging. Reading an article made him realize how deeply his environment influences his perspective, and entering the music industry surprised him with how many white people held power there, a reality he hadn't seen before.
What does it cost to enter a world that wasn't made for you? And once you're in, are you ever really there?
Reading this article for a very, very long time gave me this clear sense of, like, my life. We're talking about you, your skin color, then you dive down to how you articulate, then you dive down to you know, how you dress, then you dive down to what your income is, like all of those different things on top of you being Black in America. Honestly, I didn't even know white people was in the music business until I started working in the music business, you know what I'm saying? Like, I didn't— I didn't— like, I was so blind to a lot of things that, um, my world was like not introduced to.
