Stevie Wonder defends Bruno Mars

[Stacker Pentecost]

At the same time Eminem was hot, Outkast and Usher were going Diamond. Eminem just released a bomb that no one cared about and no one is listening to his old albums. Adele has been gone for 2 years and she not doing anything different than what Celine Dion did 15 years ago and what Streisand did 50 years ago. I wouldn't give all the credit to Em and Adele. There's plenty of black artists that are putting out hits right now. Drake has the number one song in the country, Black Panther was the #1 album in the country, Migos just performed on SNL.

I was moreso using them as examples but I would DEFINITELY give Eminem credit with making rap way more mainstream so we can agree to disagree on that one. Soccer moms hated him but tons of ppl that were aghast at the ‘violent, misogynstic’ rap lyrics loved the fukk out of Eminem. We all know the stereotype of the person that ‘hates rap’ but ‘loves eminem.’ And let’s not pretend whites didn’t love ‘Hey Ya!’ which hugely contributed to the mainstream success of OutKast after years of making records. And I’m not saying Black artists were NEVER successful, I’m talking about the mainstreaming and elevation of genres specifically after non-Blacks get involved, and also the specific elevation of non-Black artists in our traditional genres. Even after Usher co-signed Justin Bieber he went on to become the first artist to have seven songs from a debut record chart .

EDIT: And Black ppl are currently supporting the fukk out of Black Panther, etc because we’re currently in the midst of a Black Renaissance or whatever you want to call it... I think this is even partly why this Bruno topic is hitting so hard.

 

[George's Dilemma]

As we should. White people do it all the

Complain about white people being vultures and then cite their lack of principles to justify Black vultures watering down the culture. Unreal.

 

[xoxodede]

Complain about white people being vultures and then cite their lack of principles to justify Black vultures watering down the culture. Unreal.

Black Vultures? How is one a vulture to their own culture. Doesn't even make sense.

How does one "water down the culture" due to mediocrity?

 

[Azul]

The misguidance kinda did void the merit tho. You’re not being honest if you watched that rant and deny that she was hating on Bruno. She had a valid point about whites preferring our music from non blacks, but that’s not bruno’s fault. It’s out fault. There’s no way around that. Hating on people like Bruno is not a solution to black people being exploited by the music business.

So what does hating on Bruno have to do with the solution to that?

That's another thing. You really think that is solely "our fault" huh? It's not.

Plus, look at mainstream "urban" radio. Take Hot 97 for instance. Very few black people work as on air talent and you'd think there is a paper bag test for women. All this is not by accident.

 

[Gravity]

That's another thing. You really think that is solely "our fault" huh? It's not.

Plus, look at mainstream "urban" radio. Take Hot 97 for instance. Very few black people work as on air talent and you'd think there is a paper bag test for women. All this is not by accident.

In the context of a conversation amongst black people, yes it’s solely our fault. Whites being racist is a given at this point, so why do we constantly fall for the same tricks? We sold out, it is what it is.

As far as hot 97 and “urban” radio/entertainment, if we understand how they do why do we continue to support them? Overcoming systematic white supremacy is going to require sacrifices that we constantly give excuses not to make. It’s our fault.

 

[chkmeout]

dusty vagina bytches with the nonsense foh

 

[Gold]

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

breh probably needs some sort of facial hair

 

[J.E.T.S]

It’s a week old topic at this point and still making waves which is hilarious. And Stevie Wonder is blind he wouldn't even know what cultural appropriation looks like. Bruno Mars could be a whole white man in blackface for all Stevie knows

For all we know he thought Bruno was Black this whole time and doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about lollllllll

 

[CrushedGroove]

Honestly, I'd never seen Bruno until the Uptown Funk video. I'd first heard him from Nothing On You with B.O.B. and said he sounded like he was gonna be big. His shyt just doesn't sound forced to me. Timberlake and Thicke is more debatable. shyt, it's more younger black artists that sound more European, like Khalid or these female artists with Amy Winehouse vocal inflections.

 

[Tetsuo]

Everyone saying it’s about ‘white approval’ also clearly didn’t watch the entire grapevine video or ANY of my own personal work lol because I say several times idc about a Grammy as a marker of approval Bruno winning those Grammys just so happened to be the topic of the panel I was on so I spoke my piece. For me it’s more about what he represents in terms of love black culture, hate black bodies that’s disgusting. Black people hate ourselves and would even prefer our own culture from non-Black faces, it’s sick. Look at all these capes flying for Bruno.

But fukk a racist Grammy:



Matter fact fukk all awards shows:

I've binged on some of the videos on your channel so I'm familiar with some of your views and it has me looking at my screen like when nikkas accuse you of wanting white approval or hating, but I haven't seen anyone address the point about non-black people wanting to consume black shyt, but want black folks to fukk off

 

[Software]

Lol Too much jealousy in this thread. Bruno Mars was obviously influenced by black american music. It's not his fault his music is popular.

yes it is he the one making it

 

[Kerkum]

ITT a bunch of:

You really took the time out of your day to make this

 

[Kerkum]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain and tell me regarding the chick who started this whole conversation, what does she contribute of significant value to the Black community other than whine? Really, that goes for any of these hoteps and shea butter tramps. Other than complain about non-issues, what do they do that is so pro-Black that anyone should give them a minute of the time of day?

She has highlighted many black R&B acts (jeremih, Jasmine Sullivan) that are currently being overlooked. Her entire YouTube channel speaks for itself, you should check it out

 

[Tom Foolery]

And this my friends is why black people wander around wondering why we don't control or own anything.

These old nikkas let 'Jews' swindle them out of their music and record labels and now they want to be just like them. "Well you know, Jesus loves everybody and God created music for all of us to enjoy. We just gotta give thanks."

 

[Kerkum]

How come all these black Hollywood negroes can rally around a Bruno mars but are mum on Colin Kapernick