I know this fukked Whitney up for minute

[Master Teacher]

This @Master Teacher nikka...

Whitney Houstin was boo'd at Soul TRAIN AWARDS LMAO, the culture did not fukk her, ain't revisionist, the cacs told you something and you nikkaz ran with it

That's the same night she met bobby brown, he told her she wasn't black enough that's why they was booing her lmao

Clive Davis said he didn't want to market Whitney to blacks out his own mouth lmao, stop pretending that cacs and write her entire career lmao, them dry ass songs

AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, shyt sound like Barbara Streisand shyt lmao fukk outta here

A black voice can make any thing sound better, doesn't change the fact the shyt was souless cac music

 

[xCivicx]

Typical nikkas hating each other shyt

Nobody in here is even hating on Anita though

The hate is very one-sided towards Whitney

 

[Billy Ocean]

Whitney Houstin was boo'd at Soul TRAIN AWARDS LMAO, the culture did not fukk her, ain't revisionist, the cacs told you something and you nikkaz ran with it

That's the same night she met bobby brown, he told her she wasn't black enough that's why they was booing her lmao

Clive Davis said he didn't want to market Whitney to blacks out his own mouth lmao, stop pretending that cacs and write her entire career lmao, them dry ass songs

AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, shyt sound like Barbara Streisand shyt lmao fukk outta here

nikka, eat a dikk and stop quoting me. I'm not an idiot and old enough to know that Black people loved Whitney Houston, dikkhead. All those long ass novels you writing in here not changing that.

 

[Billy Ocean]

Gotta love the internet.

Be Black and claim Black people didn't fukk with Whitney Houston, brehs.

 

[TheDarkCloud]

I’ve said on here many times black folks wasn’t fukking with Whitney like that till after the Bodyguard. I remember my pops calling her and Lionel Richie sellouts. A lot of it had to do with the fact that her mother was this great gospel singer and Whitney ended up being a pop tart

Lol. You my nikka but you should have a lot more respect for Whitney being a Mary J. Blige stan and all.

Mary said performing with Whitney at the Divas Live show in 1999 opened up doors for her all over and was pretty much what brought her over to the mainstream world.

If it wasn’t for Whitney, your fave would probably still be local.

 

[ultraflexed]

Let's not start comparing. I'm playing nice

Neither of them made club bangers, whitney was more pop, but they had different styles with anita bring more R&B jazz and whitney was R&B pop

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Gotta love the internet.

Be Black and claim Black people didn't fukk with Whitney Houston, brehs.

This is like calling OutKast a pop group because they had crossover appeal and got booed at the Source Awards

Blasphemous behavior.

 

[Billy Ocean]

The thing I loooove about the Coli is the fact that no matter how outrageous a claim may be, there will always be posters to co-sign it. Trust me. Don't believe me? I guarantee you make a thread right now stating the dumbest and most outrageous shyt you can think of and you gonna get at least 4 or 5 posters that's gonna cosign.

 

[ultraflexed]

to be booed at the Soul Train awards

Competition was stacked

Vanessa William's
Whitney Houston
Anita baker

 

[BmoreGorilla]

They also booed Bobby Ferrin for that Don’t Worry Be Happy at the same awards that year

People forget that by like 86-87 black folks taste was starting to change. The older heads still loved those singers in the same vein as a Luther, Stephanie Mills, Patti Labelle, etc. Whitney didn’t really fit that mold.

Among the young folks they wanted to hear shyt that sounded more hip hop which is why I mentioned Lisa Lisa. She got more love in the hood than Whitney at the time and she wasn’t even black


You couldn’t do the wop or the cabbage patch to I Wanna Dance With Somebody

 

[MaxBundles]

wait y’all old nikkas wasn’t fukking with I Wanna Dance With Somebody?

This was my exact reaction reading thru this thread lol

Since when you old heads didn't fukk with that song or Whitney for that matter?

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Neither of them made club bangers, whitney was more pop, but they had different styles with anita bring more R&B jazz and whitney was R&B pop

That staccato technique

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Lol. You my nikka but you should have a lot more respect for Whitney being a Mary J. Blige stan and all.

Mary said performing with Whitney at the Divas Live show in 1999 opened up doors for her all over and was pretty much what brought her over to the mainstream world.

If it wasn’t for Whitney, your fave would probably still be local.

We talking about 89 Whitney tho

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

wait y’all old nikkas wasn’t fukking with I Wanna Dance With Somebody?

No, we weren't. MSM forced that song on us relentlessly.

Like a Black female Rick Astley.

We wanted more of Janet Jackson and got........THAT......instead.......

Also, this was back when Latin Freestyle music was becoming HUGE.​

 

[Swirv]

Whitney would have like 6 singles per album. It must be a regional thing because she was putting up numbers with popularity down south.

Just because she had crossover appeal doesn’t mean black folks didn’t rock with her. There was just an abundance of great music and artists to choose from.

Imagine having to choose which concert to go to: Whitney, Luther, the DeBarges who were still popular and that’s not even mentioning a-listers like Prince and Mike

Was a great time in music life. So many heavy hitters that knew how to perform.