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D, mother****er, D.
It's a classic brehs 
Adele's album 21 just went DIAMOND!
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Breh, it was never meant to be a literal comparison with Kelly Price
You playing stupid. If its a black woman who looked like Adele, had the same kind of music & wanted to be taking seriously as an authentic artist......she wouldn't have gotten the time of day, much less sold 10 million albums.
Its not shytting on Adele or her talent, she has talent. Its just frustrating seeing white artists come & borrow from black musicians........yes, the sultry, smokey, soulful sound Adele is known for is influenced by urban black music......then selling 100x better than a black artist would've sold producing the same content, then its even more frustrating to have everybody act as if we're not watching the same shyt unfold
and we're just throwing salt for no reason. We know why it worked for her & why it works for other white artists doing the same shyt, white people relate more to artists who look like them and its 200 million of them vs. 39 million of us. Just dont act like I'm a dikk for pointing that out.Congrats to her tho.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Im saying if she was black, that's who'd she be.
When I start seeing some black Susan Boyles or black Adeles selling 10 million records, cool. Until then, fukk outta here.
If you and others started buying those records instead of flashing the big biz signal in the sky, maybe you'd see a different outcome.
There's probably 5x as many people who bytch about why the Jennifer Hudsons and Janelle Monaes didn't sell than the people who actually bought it, and the people who bought it aren't even trippin'.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Breh, it was never meant to be a literal comparison with Kelly Price
You playing stupid. If a black woman who looked like Adele, had the same kind of music & wanted to be taking seriously as an authentic artist......she wouldn't have gotten the time of day, much less sold 10 million albums.
Its not shytting on Adele or her talent, she has talent. Its just frustrating seeing white artists come & borrow from black musicians........yes, the sultry, smokey, soulful sound Adele is known for is influenced by urban black music......then selling 100x better than a black artist would've sold producing the same content, then its even more frustrating to have everybody act as if we're not watching the same shyt unfold
Congrats to her tho.
Adele probably sold more amongst black people than other artists did. If that formula was so easy to replicate, white people wouldn't even sing pop music. They'd just do R&B all day and leech. It doesn't work that way, and it diminishes why artists of any race do numbers. It's like the line Serius Jones said to Jin: "there's a billion people in China. You couldn't go platinum over there?
"It would be way more justifiable to be upset about it if we supported our own or if we had an artist sell big time numbers, but we just don't.
You got an examples of someone coming out like Adele did that's black? Someone similar is Janelle Monae except she's thin and she went like 5x plat on Bad Boy. I think you're fighting some kind of racial strawman here. I took your Kelly Price comment literally because otherwise you're just saying she sold well because she's fat and white like Elvis.Breh, it was never meant to be a literal comparison with Kelly Price
You playing stupid. If its a black woman who looked like Adele, had the same kind of music & wanted to be taking seriously as an authentic artist......she wouldn't have gotten the time of day, much less sold 10 million albums.
Its not shytting on Adele or her talent, she has talent. Its just frustrating seeing white artists come & borrow from black musicians........yes, the sultry, smokey, soulful sound Adele is known for is influenced by urban black music......then selling 100x better than a black artist would've sold producing the same content, then its even more frustrating to have everybody act as if we're not watching the same shyt unfold
Congrats to her tho.
USSInsiders
Banned
what about all the black singers with the same and/or more talent that cant even go gold?
i respect her voice but f**k all that other chit.
@ anybody that has a problem with what im saying.
the fukk are you babbling about?i buy records.
You got an examples of someone coming out like Adele did that's black? Someone similar is Janelle Monae except she's thin and she went like 5x plat on Bad Boy. I think you're fighting some kind of racial strawman here. I took your Kelly Price comment literally because otherwise you're just saying she sold well because she's fat and white like Elvis.
You were being dense breh....
Adele probably sold more amongst black people than other artists did. If that formula was so easy to replicate, white people wouldn't even sing pop music. They'd just do R&B all day and leech. It doesn't work that way, and it diminishes why artists of any race do numbers. It's like the line Serius Jones said to Jin: "there's a billion people in China. You couldn't go platinum over there?
It would be way more justifiable to be upset about it if we supported our own or if we had an artist sell big time numbers, but we just don't.
Point taken...just answer me this...put Adele's voice, creativity, everything that makes Adele, Adele....into Jill Scott's body. Do you see her selling 10x platinum?
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Point taken...just answer me this...put Adele's voice, creativity, everything that makes Adele, Adele....into Jill Scott's body. Do you see her selling 10x platinum?
10x plat? Probably not but she'd still do a shyt ton of records because Jill Scott is in Jill Scott's body and she was multiplatinum when she first came out even though she didn't have as big of a hit as Rollin In The Deep. People here underestimate how big that song really is. It might be the biggest song of this century so far. Some outlets will tell you it's the biggest song in the last 25 years. Every station had it. Future coulda got that song and it woulda been hard to fukk it up.
What's crazy about Adele is that she didn't have this ridiculous first week and it took Rollin in the Deep 7 months before it was #1-- and that was the biggest song of the year). "Someone Like You" became a huge hit just off of her singing it at an awards show long after everyone heard the album. Then after the Grammys it got bought as if the album dropped that day. Forget 10 mil. Could a Black singer sell a mil without "crossing over?"
Tolerance for stupidity? Everyone here clowning on you, and you know when the entire coli agrees, it must be something that is blatantly obvious, and that is you're an idiot.
Rihanna entered my mind, yeah, the same Rihanna who doesn't write her own music, can't sing, can't dance and has a team working for her to make hits, when she does nothing. How fukking dare me? This is so much better than the Adele who can sing, does write her own songs, and all her material is made with her overseeing it at the time.
You were being dense breh....
Point taken...just answer me this...put Adele's voice, creativity, everything that makes Adele, Adele....into Jill Scott's body. Do you see her selling 10x platinum?
Probably not 10x but still very high.
Crossing over hasn't been a problem for black singers for about 3 decades. It's far easier for a Black artists to cross over to a white audience then vice versa & for every black artist you see that never popped remember theres probably 3 white artists that failed too.
I wish he would, but hell no.
Uk B*tches are really runnin this singin sh*t. If Amy was alive
Delilah, Emeli Sande, Lianne La Havas, Etta Bond, Katy B.....
so much piff coming from my UK brehs
Tuc2DaBoot
Pro
The problem with this thinking along with others who feel the same way as you is simple. Black artists in this day and age are not willing to go to simple contemporary R&B mixed with a little pop production, like say Tamia and Deborah Cox tried to do. Mariah Carey is a good example but she sold a LOT more thanks to her image. Truthfully, Adele's image works for her as well. A large white woman who loves to sing... middle aged women identify with her perfectly as well as good looking white girls who want to be more "deep" with their music.
Nowadays, no black artist will rely on simply talent AND maintain a marketable image. The ones that can (Janelle Monae & Elle Varner) are not sticking to those roots. You think Jill Scott could do what Adele is doing? She went platinum before, but she didn't stick to the script and folks got tired of her. I want black R&B artists to get back to platinum too, but right now, too many of them are too urban or too Afrocentric to make the mainstream move again. Contemporary R&B needs to come back to the forefront in the worst way for actual talent to shine again.