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

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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
 

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

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 :manny:
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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
 
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