you should go party with him "♥ zachary ♥" ....

There are good things about Azealia. I like this screaming hook thing. But the production is gar-bage.

Issue is other cultures have scales and harmonic systems of their own, they just aren't taught. Unless someone studied music many theory, and in a westernized college (which many musicians and many more pop musicans have not), then they just have an ear for music and what emotionally captures people, and aren't necessarily using ideas from those "old, musty europeans." It's just that mainstream culture, as of today, is eurocentric. That said, yes most musical styles and genre's are derived from originally folk and marginalized musical subsets (like techno and blues), but "white people" have done the same thing, just mostly these days it's been stolen from minority groups like african americans (chiefly), africans, indians, and arabian music, etc. It's a fluid back and forth transfer of culture, and everyone's stealing from everyone. Yin/Yang, homeostasis, equilibrium and balance throughout the universe blah blah blah
-some black dude in the DMV