This is very true, Timberlakes music doesn't sound as 'natural' as Thickes. Thicke falls in the line of Teena Marie, Jon B etc white artists who actually had authentic soul, Timberlake is in the other direction, dude was pop artsist till he figured out he needed to become more 'trendy' to have a long solo career.
Hot 97 talk on how White People (C@cs) are the only ones bringing soul to black music
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This is very true, Timberlakes music doesn't sound as 'natural' as Thickes. Thicke falls in the line of Teena Marie, Jon B etc white artists who actually had authentic soul, Timberlake is in the other direction, dude was pop artsist till he figured out he needed to become more 'trendy' to have a long solo career.
I can see where they are coming from, but they are pushing it.
There are lots of black making soulful music, Its just that they dont get the play on pop charts like they used to. Meanwhile nowadays, you hear Robin, Adele, JT etc. making soul music at times. And usher and them are making Euro techno pop garbage, or wanna be hiphop thug music (Trey songz).
There are lots of black making soulful music, Its just that they dont get the play on pop charts like they used to. Meanwhile nowadays, you hear Robin, Adele, JT etc. making soul music at times. And usher and them are making Euro techno pop garbage, or wanna be hiphop thug music (Trey songz).
she 'sounds black' breh. That's good enough for most people.
so you one of the 'I ate the bones' nikkas
this would be deemed 'revolutionary' if JT/Adele/ & yes RIP Amy WineHouse did this song. But its just run of the mill black music when we do it. So sick of this breh
here's a cut from that Fantasia CD we were just talking about. Just ill music man.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcN4hcaDKo"]Fantasia - If I Was A Bird - YouTube[/ame]
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
she 'sounds black' breh. That's good enough for most people.
so you one of the 'I ate the bones' nikkas
this would be deemed 'revolutionary' if JT/Adele/ & yes RIP Amy WineHouse did this song. But its just run of the mill black music when we do it. So sick of this breh
here's a cut from that Fantasia CD we were just talking about. Just ill music man.
Fantasia - If I Was A Bird - YouTube
adele doesn't sound black to me at all.
I totally agree with the bolded tho.
she 'sounds black' breh. That's good enough for most people.
so you one of the 'I ate the bones' nikkas
this would be deemed 'revolutionary' if JT/Adele/ & yes RIP Amy WineHouse did this song. But its just run of the mill black music when we do it. So sick of this breh :snoop:
here's a cut from that Fantasia CD we were just talking about. Just ill music man.
Fantasia - If I Was A Bird - YouTube
!00%, and that Fantasia track is
.
She doesn't have a soul/R&b sound to you. Sir I think you are just being contrary.
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
well maybe I just heard the wrong songs.
like I said, I only know her from the coli and the songs yall post. she has no relevance in the black community whatsoever. no black airplay neither.
if shes so soulful, then post some examples. all ive ever heard from her is just a white girl that can actually sing. but being able to sing doesn't automatically mean that youre soulful.
so yea, if she has soulful joints, feel free to link em up.
Adele definitely has some soulful tracks and a very powerful voice. She doesn't make black music like that though, shes more in the mould of the other powerful songstresses of the last era, she makes pop music, but she can crossover when she wants.
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Lex with tv sets the minimum
A lot of white folks only appreciate black culture when it is interpreted by one of their own.
JT and Thicke to me are like karaoke r&b. They got talent. In the context of r&b they cant really "sang". They got one little vocal range/pocket that they stay in lol, a few dance steps, a cosgin from a black artist and now its packaged as a groundbreaking rebirth of soul. shyts watered down and synthetic to me.
They pumpin JT like a r&b jesus and we still ride for him even after that shyt with Janet at the super bowl. He wanted to be down, shyt hit the fan and jumped right back into the Mickey Mouse shyt. Dude is cosmetic and nikkas still fallin for the okeydoke - "Dang, whiteboy can kinda blow".
JT and Thicke to me are like karaoke r&b. They got talent. In the context of r&b they cant really "sang". They got one little vocal range/pocket that they stay in lol, a few dance steps, a cosgin from a black artist and now its packaged as a groundbreaking rebirth of soul. shyts watered down and synthetic to me.
They pumpin JT like a r&b jesus and we still ride for him even after that shyt with Janet at the super bowl. He wanted to be down, shyt hit the fan and jumped right back into the Mickey Mouse shyt. Dude is cosmetic and nikkas still fallin for the okeydoke - "Dang, whiteboy can kinda blow".
The only white guy thats genuinely had me fooled was JON B, i thought that was a lightskin nikka when he came out with 'They Don't Know' you can genuinely tell the difference between him and someone like Jt and Robin Thicke to a lesser extent.
He can't really sing though and his songwriting is meh, but people on here were still hyping up 20/20 like it was 'Off The Wall'.
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Lex with tv sets the minimum
Right. I havent heard his album. I'd rather bump Van Hunt, Maxwell or D'Angelo - if he ever comes back lol
Hot 97 never play or promote soul music made by black artists. Now that white artists are incorporating soul in their music, they want to have this silly discussion that blacks abandoned soul unlike white artists. They should consider that white artists have a better success rate with making soul is because the corporate radio stations such as Hot 97 will play and promote urban sounding music from white artists than blacks. All I'm getting at is that stations like Hot 97 is a big cause of this. And I have no idea why they would make race part of the discussion.
