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Halfway through Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 thriller about a young postman caught in a gangster plot after secretly recording a beautiful Black American opera soprano, the singer has a tough conversation with her agent. “Let them do their record, I will never sign,” she says, when she’s made aware that Taiwanese bootleggers are blackmailing her after stealing a copy of her stunning performance. Her agent snaps back: “It’s not a question of pride. So you either continue to follow your diva whims, or you act as a responsible adult and make this record.” Her situation—subject to exploitative forces beyond one’s control, the music ripped from her grasp by people clamoring for a taste of her voice—might make Veeze nod solemnly in sympathy. The Detroit rapper’s career has similarly seemed like a casualty in the battle for creative agency—one that at times he barely seems interested in fighting.