Stevie Wonder defends Bruno Mars

[Flu Game502]

Stevie ain't blind cuh

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Even deaf people enjoy/make music.

If you wanna explain how music isn't for everyone, be my guest.

DAMN you so fukking stupid I can't

 

[An ashy lil fap hand]

Tap dancers was probably giving them black face minstrel show cacs passes.

passes?

you said you was in here to police dumb statements. nikkas were locked out of the industry.

Nobody back then was giving passes. negged.

 

[8WON6]

Number one she's not 100% right as evident by the fact that Black people aren't uniformly agreeing with her both on the question itself of cultural appropriation, and secondarily most don't even think it's an important subject. Priorities people, priorities. She can voice her opinion all she wants, or to provide a more accurate depiction of what she's doing........she can whine and complain insufferably all she wants just like 90% of all the other hoteps and shea butter septum ring twits on social media.

You know what really stands out to me about conversations like these though? You ever notice that the individuals who scream the loudest about cultural appropriation either contribute very little or don't contribute at all to the culture they're supposedly fighting so hard for? Here she is complaining about someone eating off of Black music, but I want to know what she's doing for Black music or has done for it. For that matter I want to know what she contributes to the Black community by and large. Youtube videos don't cut it in my opinion when it comes to activism with substantial results. I can scream at the television when Adrien Broner doesn't let his hands go, but I'm not actually in the ring fighting either.

Which goes back to her complaining about a popular non-Black artist obviously influenced by Black music. It's noteworthy that Black musicians are defending Bruno Mars, and let's drop the pretension and projection assuming they're only doing so for their own benefit. Stevie Wonder is established and wealthy and has NO need to defend Bruno Mars. Here's the kicker though. The difference between Stevie Wonder and this shea butter twit is this........STEVIE WONDER IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE CULTURE WE CALL BLACK MUSIC. And here he is defending Bruno Mars, as did Charlie Wilson who also is part of the culture we call Black Music. She's not part of that culture. She's just another consumer. In fact, my instincts tell me that the depth of her exploration into Black music is quite limited. She's a sideliner, nothing more, and maybe a whole lot less.

1) She is 100% correct. And you're proving it because you don't address what she said, you went straight into talking about who agrees and how important the subject is. Do you not see that side step you take? LMAO.
2)You're complaining about her speaking about an issue and saying she's doing it loudly. You don't have to be in the thread. You don't have to address it. Black topics are not hard to avoid, but somehow people always feel the need to make sure we get shouted down for talking about our issues, even a small one like this.
3)Again you're complaining about her voicing her opinion not what she said.
4)Who gives a fukk is Stevie Wonder is defending Bruno....THE ISSUE ISN'T WHETHER OR NOT BRUNO IS WACK. THE ISSUE WAS NEVER THAT BRUNO WAS BANNED FROM BLACK MUSIC. The issue is Bruno Mars is pushed, in the mainstream, ahead of black male r&b artists. Again, this humongous strawmanning into something that was never said.

 

[An ashy lil fap hand]

DAMN you so fukking stupid I can't

You can't answer a question, and that makes me stupid. I feel you.

 

[JadeB]

Tyrese stated this before when wanted to boycott radio because the were not playing black artist. This talking r and b tho. As for rap logic and lil xan appear to be building on the same platform that Asher Roth came in on. My point is rap was an outlet for black artist because there was voice for young black males in the 80s suffering in the hood. Do xan and logic add to this or do they add to a narrative about young white males that have an higher employment rate and access to a better life than a Kendrick, migos and cole? Kendrick is from a piru neighborhood, migos are affiliated with gangster disciples and cole just had his house raided for drugs. Do xan and logic have these issues?

No they don’t because those black artist come from neighborhoods made during segregation.

Logic is biracial and proudly claims his black side and speaks up about racism before
Logic Opens Up About His Experiences With Racism On New Single "Everybody" | Genius

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

You can't answer a question, and that makes me stupid. I feel you.

And I'm not because you need to figure it out.

All music not for all people you should know why lmao.

 

[An ashy lil fap hand]

And I'm not because you need to figure it out.

All music not for all people you should know why lmao.

come on now. i aint say all music for all people. i said music is for everyone. I aint out here bumping hank williams.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I've noticed that Seren "Sensei" hasn't tweeting anything for 2 weeks

 

[xoxodede]

he's not being pushed ahead of other AA male artists, first of all bruno is a pop star - been one before this album, he has a huge platform already - whether he wants to drop bubblegum pop, rock, or r&b, he simply has the platform for it.

secondly, WE ourselves are not supporting, promoting, or championing for the artists who are making quality r&b, you got 30 pages on a vulgar shytty 45 track chris brown album then those of us trying to get people to listen to cats like sir or daniel ceasar...even anderson pak, get 2-5 pages of views/replies. comments like "no one wants to hear love songs/ slows songs/ men crying about or simping a woman / that old sounding ass r&b" pour straight from the mouths of black posters...now someone non-black does it and yall can't stand it. stop stop stop

i'm really into music, and i'm not going to sugar coat that black listeners (younger generations especially) abandoned soulful r&b, this isn't just some industry constructed problem.

He is in the sense -- meaning AA artist now have to be able to "pop" in every genre in order to get a deal and/or support -- even when it's not even the genre they want to be in. They want these artist to appeal to Black people but not be Black - so they can get radio/airplay/press everywhere.

A AA/Black artist is not going to be able to get the press, support and budget a non-Black person gets.

The issue is not AA not supporting our artist - it's not be allowed to support our artist the way we always have and are used too. It's also not calling labels to task about signing our artist.

Before our artist were always on our radio stations, mags/media, etc - now it's rare. Why?

Because we don't own it - we never really did - but we at least stood for our artist and pushed them first --- and now others have came in and took over those positions - and are on some "it's just music" aka #alllivesmatter music/stations. We are not allowed to play our artist on heavy rotation.

If we did that would allow Black radio stations to play and help make our artist do well.

Black America is still listening to the radio.

You will not hear any of the artist I mentioned on the radio - we hear everything but them - and that's not us not supporting them - that's us not being allowed to. We need to hear their new music in order to support them.

 

[xoxodede]

Logic is biracial and proudly claims his black side and speaks up about racism before
Logic Opens Up About His Experiences With Racism On New Single "Everybody" | Genius

He is still accepted and seen in society as a WHITE man.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

come on now. i aint say all music for all people. i said music is for everyone. I aint out here bumping hank williams.

Ok bet lol that is where I was getting at. We good lol

 

[Kaypain]

I just don't understand why people online are rushing to this lesbian lookin motherfukker's defense like they're on the payroll or something.

He'll be alright

I don't understand why y'all nikkas rushing to discredit and hate on the man. Like wtf you want the dude to do? Make Blink 182 music and get features from Pink nikka?

Dude doesn't claim to be black. His whole camp is black from the writers to the band and they eating so wtf is the problem?

Keep is mind y'all the same mofos that gave Slim Jesus the attention to get his 10 minutes of fame. Y'all hypocrites

 

[Gothboi J]

Here is the thing. I like Bruno Mars. I think he is super talented and he has never talked out the side of his neck as far as I know.

However, those of you who merely equate this to "hating" are oversimplifying the issue.

It isn't so much Bruno himself but what his success in r&b represents. I liked 24k Magic a lot but y'all know damn well a black artist would NOT have won AOTY with it. I've been reading comments on this and white/non black have said that blacks are just "mad" because he is doing it "better." This absolute bullshyt and doesn't sit right with me at all.

There are so many black artists just as talented that will NEVER even sniff a record deal. Love black music, not black people. Mainstream R&B is pretty much dead at this point for more reasons than laziness from current artists.

The anger expressed in the video may be misguided, but certainly not devoid of merit.

Like u said is misguided.. get mad at the ppl who support Bruno but not his black counterparts.

 

[xoxodede]

I saw this today on YouTube today:



And Stevie Wonder - as much as I love him.

I still remember Dr. Muhammed talking about him on singing/writing "Jungle Fever."