CAC Harlow didn't know Brandy & Ray-J are siblings

[Fanservice]

Most people only know Ray-j for the kim k sextape. Only nikkas without cable watched moesha and it’s not like Ray-j was ever a superstar like Brandy.

 

[Fanservice]

Most people only know Ray-j for the kim k sextape. Only nikkas without cable watched moesha and it’s not like Ray-j was ever a superstar like Brandy.

 

[djthegreat88]

His age and state has nothing to do him knowing Brandy.

Your acting like Brandy is Aretha or something. She was a popular rb artist in the 90s. She hasn’t been relevant in over 20 years

 

[Kingshango]

Wasn’t there a segment a few years back where an interviewer asked some of the young NBA players about 90s hip hop, and none of them knew who they were?

So stuff like this is hardly surprising.

That was more shocking than this, their parents, older sibling should have at least been playing 90’s hip hop around the house/block.

A white rapper from the suburbs in his early 20’s, who’s first console was most likely a Xbox 360 not knowing who Brandy is should be that big of a shock.

 

[Luke Cage]

Everybody can't know everything. The word "artist" is broad as AF. I watched his breakfast club interview and he said his mom put him on to Public Enemy, Goodie Mob, and Outkast as a kid. That's as much as I could expect from someone his age involved in Rap. I wouldn't kill a 2022 NFL draft pick for not knowing who Sugar Ray Leonard was even though their both pro athletes.

This is more like an MMA fighter not knowing who sugar ray Leonard is, and yes i'd be suspicious as to how much a student of the game they are if they don't know stuff like that.
People like this tend to pivot once shyt is no longer fun(or profitable) and abandon the communities to helped support them on some Kid Rock shyt.

 

[Bmezy]

Jack Harlow was born in 1998 and probably didn't grow up listening to R&B. I work with teenagers who listen to rap all day and they barely know Jay-z and Nas. His response is not shocking.

I agree.. I have nephews and nieces 14-22 who started seriously listening to music fr in 2010-11.
It was RnB and ‘rap’ for the most part but Brandy has long been gone from the mainstream consciousness since they were babies.
However, Jack still gets the side eye though cause he isn’t some casual consumer.. he’s a music creative/artist and operates in black art form. Hip hop and RnB especially in it’s contemporary form go hand in hand. Jack ain pick up a mic one day and decided to make music.. is he (not familiar with his work)? At a base form he’s a musician.. our ears are different, we listen to music differently and our drive to create is driven from the inspirations for those that come before.. a certain level of music history or knowledge is imbedded if you’ve been honing your craft..

 

[RaspberryFitted]

Your acting like Brandy is Aretha or something. She was a popular rb artist in the 90s. She hasn’t been relevant in over 20 years

She was also Moesha

 

[REdefinition]

This is more like an MMA fighter not knowing who sugar ray Leonard is, and yes i'd be suspicious as to how much a student of the game they are if they don't know stuff like that.
People like this tend to pivot once shyt is no longer fun(or profitable) and abandon the communities to helped support them on some Kid Rock shyt.

I get the point, but you have to agree its not apples to apples. Reverse the scenario, If a new young ass R&B artist couldn't identify Rakim I'm not going to act like I'd be fake outraged about it.

 

[Doobie Doo]

Wasn’t there a segment a few years back where an interviewer asked some of the young NBA players about 90s hip hop, and none of them knew who they were?

So stuff like this is hardly surprising.

Now ask those same NBA players if they know who Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson and any big star prior to the 80s and they will know SOMETHING about them.

Hiphop is the only genre where not knowing about the shyt before you is cool. Ask a NFL player if they don't know who Johnny Unitas or Jim Brown is.

 

[Ahadi]

He should know since he’s sampling Tweet & Destiny’s Child on his album lol, but I understand the age component as well.

 

[BulletProof]

Of all the egregious instanstances of new Jack ignorance, who gives a fukk about Brandy and her little brother.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Just like all the cacs in the booth and online. They don't follow rnb but are hip hop heads

 

[Luke Cage]

I get the point, but you have to agree its not apples to apples. Reverse the scenario, If a new young ass R&B artist couldn't identify Rakim I'm not going to act like I'd be fake outraged about it.

They way i see it, nobody develops talent in music in a vacuum. They grow up idolizing and emulating someone. They then in turn learn about the people who inspired that artist through them. For example, a person my age may have grown up listening to MJ. and through MJ you'll probably learn about James Brown because MJ idolized him and emulated alot of his swagger.
So for someone to be a big MJ fan and be clueless about James Brown, that tells me you have a very shallow interest in music. being a musician with a shallow interest in music is a sign of a grifter imo. you just found a lane to make money, you not really an artist who loves his art.

 

[8====D]

"Hey wait a minute, ain't that Brandy's brother?"

 

[Vandelay]

Jack Harlow was born in 1998 and probably didn't grow up listening to R&B. I work with teenagers who listen to rap all day and they barely know Jay-z and Nas. His response is not shocking.

I think this speaks more to the younger generation not knowing shyt then him being purely a culture vulture.

He's a culture vulture who doesn't even know the history of his genre.

Previous culture vultures at least had an understanding of the space.

Generation Z is just about as bad as baby boomers man...