Lenny Kravitz says he's not black enough for BET

[tremonthustler1]

Lenny has been striving for critical acceptance his entire life. Lenny is one of those artists who legit reads his reviews and it impacts him because he's from a time when that mattered.

But Lenny was one of the only ones doing what he was doing on that level and it's hard to lump that in with everything else that's going on. Look at Living Colour. The most love they get is from CM Punk marks. Body Count still doin their thing and there ain't many Black people at those festivals. Jon Batiste won Album of the fukking year and is nominated for that again at the Grammys and at best, you'll see Black publications be like "cool I guess." Gary Clark Jr., even that broad from Alabama Shakes. PJ Morton. There's a lot of black talent that goes unrecognized by the people who should recognize it the most.

BET = Black Entertainment Television: at some point, the powers that be (and the viewers who tuned in) came to the conclusion that while Lenny is Black, the music he does isn't Black Entertainment.

 

[The Fade]

Lenny just not in the in-group

 

[Space Cowboy]

Media (or the people in control of the media) take the smallest thing and magnify it and showcase it, and when that's what they show and that all people see, they think "that's all they do" .

We know there's black book stores, black restaurants, black ballets, black orchestras, black kids that play piano, trumpet, drums, black kids that do karate, black kids that write stories and poems...Black kids that compete in spelling bees and science fairs

But you're not going to see that on tv. They aren't going to share that or market that.

Hell there black youth baseball teams, but we only see football, and basketball...and guess what parents go to those games, families, moms AND dads, as well as aunts and uncles, grandparents but conveniently white media isn't there to show families having fun, being together. They won't show all those Saturdays and Sundays, it doesn't benefit them to do so. They will show the one fight that weekend of parents fighting in the crowd, or two black coaches fighting, or a kid punching a ref.

We do positive shyt, we are humans. Even in the poorest state of being, we still do positive things. The media doesn't want to promote that.

So yeah, women shaking their ass, kids rapping and cussing, fighting, crime. Show that all day, give their designated audience something to look down upon.

BET was black owned and its traitor owner sold it to Viacom and cacs. Black people have had many of our own outlets but sell them to white people to use our image as we see fit. Black people sold out record labels, our TV networks. Now we are forced into white platforms. We did it to ourselves.

 

[beenz]

why he care about BET in 2023??? that ship has sailed.

 

[Neuromancer]

Lenny's still a legend. But I get where he's coming from.

 

[Neuromancer]

Lenny has been striving for critical acceptance his entire life. Lenny is one of those artists who legit reads his reviews and it impacts him because he's from a time when that mattered.

But Lenny was one of the only ones doing what he was doing on that level and it's hard to lump that in with everything else that's going on. Look at Living Colour. The most love they get is from CM Punk marks. Body Count still doin their thing and there ain't many Black people at those festivals. Jon Batiste won Album of the fukking year and is nominated for that again at the Grammys and at best, you'll see Black publications be like "cool I guess." Gary Clark Jr., even that broad from Alabama Shakes. PJ Morton. There's a lot of black talent that goes unrecognized by the people who should recognize it the most.

BET = Black Entertainment Television: at some point, the powers that be (and the viewers who tuned in) came to the conclusion that while Lenny is Black, the music he does isn't Black Entertainment.

Black culture itself is relegated to rap and r&b and that's it at this point.

 

[Still Benefited]

There was actually a thread on this topic earlier in the week by @UpAndComing that did not gain much traction, unfortunately.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/black-queen-makes-an-amazing-succinct-video-on-who-really-created-rock-and-roll.1006995/#post-51121502

I made a thread a while back,where i debunked that black creators make a genre black.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/do-black-creators-neccessarily-make-a-genre-black-i-say-no-some-say-yes.645169/#post-30251949

Rock in roll came from blues. Rock in roll is where it strayed from blues which was a black genre. From the time it became rock n roll,it was no longer a black genre. Convo started from people saying House was a black genre if irrc

 

[Neuromancer]

Being on this board and seeing all the closed minds I’m starting to see clearly why some people c00n out. Hating him because he’s not some hard edged rapper and using his mixed heritage and non AA heritage as an excuse. Hating him even though he’s crying to be accepted by black folks …. its a fukking shame really … If this man became a Jesse Lee Peterson clone I would understand.

And if he was saying fukk his black heritage people would be shytting on him as well. You can't win people just wanna complain.

 

[Neuromancer]

Lenny is lying. Went did he ever reach out to BET. When did Lenny actually made himself available to Black Radio back then.

Did Lenny make any efforts to perform at mostly Black events. Did Lenny even go to the Apollo?

How do you know he's lying? Inquiring minds want to know?

 

[jadillac]

Lenny has never not embraced his blackness.

I thought he'd been on the BET Awards back in the early mid 00s. Can't believe he hasn't.

He's had music vids (features) played on BET.

 

[FTBS]

the fukk does he want from the source?

"If Benzino can get 5 mics, I can. I know I look better than that nikka."

- L. Kravitz

 

[Jone2three45]

All of my life…where have you beeeeeeeeennnnnn was my shyt!

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

bet is owned by cacs.

And it is not in their interest to have other forms of black music and entertainment being put out there. They want black people to just keep making the same type of hip hop and r&b music over and over again. They don't want people like Teezo touchdown or bands like Turnstile in conversation.

They need artists who will crash out so they can profit off them when they're dead or desperate enough to agree to unfair contracts.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

"If Benzino can get 5 mics, I can. I know I look better than that nikka."

- L. Kravitz

Cmon man

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

The optics lol
It's crazy how they try to separate BET and MTV when they all under the same umbrella.
Go after Viacom or STFU

Even in the 90s (during Lenny's height) before Bob Johnson sold to Viacom it was the same.