Does Bruno Mars have the best scam in music right now?

[El Bombi]

Dude is basically the non-black person that always used to win at the Apollo.

I think Chris Rock made fun of this in one of his movies.

 

[ball15life]

"This new music is wack; I'd rather listen to old music. Those were the good times"





*artist put out music heavily influenced by older eras*




" This guy plays nothing but old music"

 

[JackRoss]

He does

 

[DPresidential]

He's not sampling, He's literally jacking from top to bottom. Even his concepts are not original.

Stupid response by a stupid individual.

Do you like the music?

It sounds good, right?

 

[Doobie Doo]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but my thing is, how the hell are we getting mad at dude for "jacking" anything if we don't take advantage of the situations ourselves (btw, is he black, mixed, mexican?)?

All I hear from our R&B artists is fukkin, smoking, eating ass, breaking up, and partying...who's fault is it for not snapping out of the bullshyt and coming up with dope concepts?

I wish you nikkas would stop acting like there aren't black folks making music as good as Bruno. Labels choose the artist they get behind and its not a coincidence Timberlake, Thicke and Bruno get millions gambled on them in promotion money

 

[PhonZhi]

This is a throwback track and homage to the past but I bet 99% of you have never heard it:



Black artists are making true r&b, they just don't get nearly the same exposure by the people who control the media outlets.

They want safe, feel-good r&b to have a non-black face

 

[UserNameless]

His main co-writer is black, his band is black, and he pays homage to black music, he's cool with me

This. He’s found the formula and still manages to make it not sound too contrived. It’s brilliant really.


@PhonZhi

I firmly believe that is if a clean cut darkskin black person was doing what Bruno does under the machine he has they’d get the same love.


Traditional r&b hasn’t really transcended into the mega pop lane for sometime . That’s just where the game has been for a while.


Same with pop rock. The game has just changed

 

[1986]

R. Kelly and Raphael Saadiq both did albums with a retro nostalgic sound of older eras years ago.

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

I wish you nikkas would stop acting like there aren't black folks making music as good as Bruno. Labels choose the artist they get behind and its not a coincidence Timberlake, Thicke and Bruno get millions gambled on them in promotion money

This!

Nikkas don't understand how the industry works. There are people out here making amazing music every day, but the overwhelming majority are never heard by the masses. The industry machine chooses what is popular and mainstream. It has always been like this, but just more blatant now.

Anyone who thinks mainstream success happens organically is a fukking idiot.

 

[Swagnificent]

His main co-writer is black, his band is black, and he pays homage to black music, he's cool with me

Making millions of dollars off something ain't paying homage. Its called a hustle.

 

[Worthless Loser]

Bruno was not like this when he first came out. Compare his music when he first came out to now. Culture vulture. The only reason people give him a pass is because he gives credit to black music and is surrounded by black people.

I defended him for a while but its starting to get apparent.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Aaaahh yes The Adele gripe

 

[B86]

I wish you nikkas would stop acting like there aren't black folks making music as good as Bruno. Labels choose the artist they get behind and its not a coincidence Timberlake, Thicke and Bruno get millions gambled on them in promotion money

I'm not saying there are NO black R&B artists making good music, but there's a shytload that's not right now. Right now, Bruno is on top. Every woman in my family and the rest that I associate with are constantly playing Bruno Mars, but of course they have the choice to play ANY artist they want that's making good music. Dude is just popping right now.

When Beyonce's or Rhianna's next album comes out and has a hot single with a nice concept then they will be on top...Music is music so I can give a fukk about race, but nikkas starting to get real weird with the turning everything into a racial thing

 

[chiefdogg]

This is a throwback track and homage to the past but I bet 99% of you have never heard it:



Black artists are making true r&b, they just don't get nearly the same exposure by the people who control the media outlets.

They want safe, feel-good r&b to have a non-black face

Great album.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

the only thing he sharks is black culture. yall dont find that odd?