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.
Only song I heard by him was that "what's poppin" joint because it was in Call Of Duty Warzone.I still haven't listened to any of the vultures songs....
Wasn't he just carried by 2 black men so he wouldn't get his shoes dirty?
Even at 24 I knew who Jimmy Ruffin and David Ruffin were and that they were siblings even though I wasn't alive in the 60s/70s and that music wasn't from my era
Simply because I had an appreciation for music in general and not just what was currently trending
That appreciation for music and history in general seems to no longer exists in the tik tok generation
Never heard one of this guy songs and never will![]()
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.![]()

Even at 24 I knew who Jimmy Ruffin and David Ruffin were and that they were siblings even though I wasn't alive in the 60s/70s and that music wasn't from my era
Simply because I had an appreciation for music in general and not just what was currently trending
That appreciation for music and history in general seems to no longer exists in the tik tok generation
Fam Im almost 40 and I promise I dont know who tf Jimmy Ruffin is. And who knows maybe I wouldn’t have known who David was if there wasnt a temptations movie
Y’all trying too hard. He’s young. Young people don’t know shyt. Even ‘Black Twitter’ is full of these types of silly revelations.
I made a thread a while back where I worked with some kids who didn't know DMX was. This was before he died where I think a lot of younger folks may have learned about him.
You dudes have to realize our generation is becoming old school now. Our cultural contemporaries from the 90s is shyt a lot of adults now never experienced and you'll find a lot of them are ignorant of shyt that everyone in our generation was aware of.


I’m pretty sure %99 of cacs under the age of 30 don’t know they’re related.
A bigger revelation would be that they’re related to Snoop.