i never got hip hop's fascination with john mayer

[I love Latina women]

i came across this old footage of him and ye workin' in the studio on "bittersweet" and i remember a time where it seemed like john mayer was bein' embraced by hip hop on some level and i never really got it because his music seemed as forgettable and bland as it gets. i just never saw where the hype came from




at this old article and jay z, kanye, the neptunes praisin' him

Forget Cristal — John Mayer CDs Are The Latest Hip-Hop Must-Have

 

[DrexlersFade]

Wtf is going on today are you muthafukkas still drunk from new years eve

You do know hip hop consists of more than Jay Kanye and Neptunes....and I fukks with you @stomachlines come on bro...it must be a inside joke I ain't in on

 

[DontEemTry]

John Mayer is dope as fukk, fukk what you tawmbout.



You hate on this and you fukked up

 

[I love Latina women]

Wtf is going on today are you muthafukkas still drunk from new years eve

You do know hip hop consists of more than Jay Kanye and Neptunes....and I fukks with you @stomachlines come on bro...it must be a inside joke I ain't in on

naw, i just thought back on the praise he got from those several artists along with his guest appearance on the dave chappelle show and it was just somethin' i never got

John Mayer is dope as fukk, fukk what you tawmbout.



You hate on this and you fukked up

lemme put it to you like my sister said, "john mayer is a bootleg dave matthews"

 

[AMcV'88]

John Mayer as popping up on Chappelles show back then too wasn't he ?
i've never heard much of John Mayer so i can't say much about his music but the Coldplay shyt was just

 

[Turbulent]

he falls into the trope of the soulful/funky/cool white boy.

 

[DrexlersFade]

naw, i just thought back on the praise he got from those several artists along with his guest appearance on the dave chappelle show and it was just somethin' i never got




lemme put it to you like my sister said, "john mayer is a bootleg dave matthews"

Oh yeah I forgot about that Chapelle shyt Hollywood weirdos

 

[Ol’Otis]

Fcku that racist cac

 

[Hades]

Black people have always had an affinity for Non-Blacks who "like what they like" even over other Blacks themselves.

 

[Optimus Prime]

when he performed "Human Nature" on the guitar at the Michael Jackson funeral

 

[DreadBrown]

I think it was just jay z and kanye

That being said Heard em Say is one of the best songs Kanye ever made.

 

[3rdWorld]

He said his dikk was racist or supremacist or some shyt and that got all the c00ns interested..

 

[Canada Goose]

John Mayer as popping up on Chappelles show back then too wasn't he ?
i've never heard much of John Mayer so i can't say much about his music but the Coldplay shyt was just

Yep, when they started playing his music in the Barbershop........

 

[I love Latina women]

John Mayer as popping up on Chappelles show back then too wasn't he ?
i've never heard much of John Mayer so i can't say much about his music but the Coldplay shyt was just

yeah, he was on the chapelle show too

he falls into the trope of the soulful/funky/cool white boy.

cool and soulful white guy would be bobby caldwell , not just mayer

Black people have always had an affinity for Non-Blacks who "like what they like" even over other Blacks themselves.

i'm not even sayin' that
all i'm sayin' is it just seemed like a few heads gravitated towards his borin' and dull ass music like it was the best thing since slice bread

 

[Canada Goose]

I clearly remember the early 2000s and nikkas didn't about John Mayer back then, Ye just likes to think outside the box when it comes to his music

Pharell is a New Black so..

Jay I assume was just leeching off of Mayer's buzz