Tyrese Protesting In Front Of A White Radio Station For Not Playing Black Artist Music

[Geek Nasty]

My only problem with this is he waited to protest when his own interests were on the line.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Typac

 

[Biscayne]

It can't just be the "sound".
I'm a hundred percent certain it's about easily marketable images too.

Not to mention the straight up cannibalizing of soul music into horrendously written pop songs.
Like this half-assed shyt that sums Marvin Gaye up as "hurr durr he made let's get it on!!"




Not the brilliant, genius talent that the guy was, nah instead he's turned into a fukking twitter meme for
teens born after 1997 to ponder about then discard while they wait for the next single from
this douche.


I salute Tyrese but really my views on Soul Music and R&B Music is that truly it might just
need to go underground for a while and reinvent itself because right now you're either aping
the 60's OR you're piggybacking off of Hip Hop by being some sort of goofy
half rapping/half singing "R&B Thug" or if you're a woman you're a "Stripper/Boss bytch" .

And if you're not doing that and you're more in the "Traditional" R&B lane you're being discarded
for your white counterparts, who focus on a very specific time period in the storied genre that is R&B.

That dude is talented, but that song is cringe worthy. Turnin Marvin into a meme to mass produce neo-RnB. Yikes!!! You're right on point.

 

[Dooby]

Salute to Tyrese

Black excellence.

fukkery Overload.

hopefully this media stunt will get him what he wants.

This is a victory....how? WHY DO WE FIGHT SO HARD TO BE ACCEPTED BY WHITES? fukkEM!

 

[Biscayne]

I'm for it if he has a case.

1. He's independent, show me these white independent R&B artists getting play cause some of my favourite artists are two white independent R&B artists (Autre ne vaut and How to dress well) and they are not moving a single unit. Usher, John Legend, Weeknd, Derulo and these cats get play. They are even playing that Jamaican cat Omni. It's that super slow, crying type of R&B that sounds like it could be from the late early 2000s that isn't getting played.

2. I don't know if that slow butter shyt is played on those stations, tell him to make "Poppier" music and sign to a major and we can take it from there.

3. His specific case was him having a song called "Stay", which is an standard butter soft love song which was released independently. While Sam Smith released his on a major and was played everywhere with ASAP Rocky remixes and all that. If he can't hear the difference between his and Sam Smith, I can't trust his musical sense.





Sam Smith's joint has that energy, that happy feeling, that modern base and dope ass production.
Just like


Which got play as well.

The Sam Smith joint is SUPER slow, and drowsy. I understand Latch being more up beat. But Sam Smiths other two joints Stay With Me, and I'm Not The Only One are pretty slow sounding, buttery records. Stay With Me especially, reminded me of some early-90's throwback, with the Black choir in there. I guess the Tyrese type RnB sounds dated in a bad way as opposed to Sam Smith's which is reminiscent of past bellowing voices in a good way.















Or people just like the ideal of a British White dude singing like Anita Baker.

 

[Biscayne]

I agree with him.

However, he has his air time on Apple music. That's the future anyway. Why would I want to hear radio personalities gossip about what they think an artist is thinking when I can hear the artist talk about music that inspired them and music they love now, right from their own mouth?

Apple Music has Dr. Dre, Q-Tip, Pharrell, OVO, Jaden Smith, etc. on weekly playing great music for hours. Also urban music gets plenty of love from their other non-Black artists hosting their shows. Like just last week Travis Mills ended his show by playing Luchini and noted the song being incredible to him. Elton John playing 2Pac, Kanye, A$AP Rocky, Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, etc.

You guys think someone like Ryan Seacrest would play Camp Lo? That's exactly why Apple Music > radio.

Once that hits Android, radio is finished.

So wait, Apple Music basically has celebrities and artist choosing which music THEY like, and what inspire THEM? I don't own any Apple products, so I never got to experience Apple Music. But Elton John playing Pac? Travis Mills playing Luchini? I'm out of the loop like Sonic after hitting the spin dash.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

This is a victory....how? WHY DO WE FIGHT SO HARD TO BE ACCEPTED BY WHITES? fukkEM!

He's not begging for acceptance. He's pointing out the obvious hipocrasy

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The Sam Smith joint is SUPER slow, and drowsy. I understand Latch being more up beat. But Sam Smiths other two joints Stay With Me, and I'm Not The Only One are pretty slow sounding, buttery records. Stay With Me especially, reminded me of some early-90's throwback, with the Black choir in there. I guess the Tyrese type RnB sounds dated in a bad way as opposed to Sam Smith's which is reminiscent of past bellowing voices in a good way.















Or people just like the ideal of a British White dude singing like Anita Baker.

 

[Osmosis]

This is a victory....how? WHY DO WE FIGHT SO HARD TO BE ACCEPTED BY WHITES? fukkEM!

White radio is mainstream radio..

 

[Dooby]

White radio is mainstream radio..

Okay..make our own shyt. We ARE the mainstream so why the hell aren't we owning mainstream radio stations?

 

[Dooby]

He's not begging for acceptance. He's pointing out the obvious hipocrasy

OK he's pointing it out...but who cares? They're white people playing what they want to on THEIR stations. He has the social and financial pull to back his own damn radio station.

 

[Self_Born7]

why we always crying b/c of what some cac man wont give us?
radio station in augusta didnt want to play james brown shyt... what he do,,, he brought the damn station. he aint white, and he aint beg the cac man.

 

[Easy-E]

Salute to Tyrese

I really, really want to give props, too...but, I'm tired of basically beggin' for white coporate acceptance (for the lack of a better term).

 

[Biscayne]

Nah, Tyrese is right about the double standard. If a black person made this same song it would never get played on white pop radio



..basically, white people can make the "blackest" r&b-soul songs and it will get played on white pop radio but "black" can't. They have to go the "cheesy" Derulo route.

Pretty much. Blacks don't have the leway for creative flexibility, that'll get spins on pop radio. So only the cheesy black music gets major airplay, while the growling, soul crushing, rhythmic, RnB or Funk by Black artist, or even by American artist in general, gets pushed to the side. Uptown Funk doesn't sound any more innovative than any old Funk music. There's been plenty of Black bands with a George Clinton, Morris Day, or what have you type sound, and they don't get much airplay. But the corny, kinda niche, poppy, yet-worldly Black artist like Omi are blowing up all across America on pop stations. I had a theory about that. I call it the Black Foreigner One Hit Wonders. Omi's just following the same formula as Milli Vanilli, Lou Bega, The Baha Men, and Shaggy. Mundane songs, that are catchy, but feature an eccentric sounding Black dude with an accent. America LOVES those artist and songs. Think about how HUGE Mambo Number 5, Who Let The Dogs Out, and It Wasn't Me were. I wouldn't be surprised if Omi was a featured artist and sings Cheerleader during The halftime show of the Superbowl this upcoming NFL season.

 

[pon]

was watching the smokey robinson tribute at the BET awards.

only 1 black singer up there. and it was nee-yo. no diss to nee-yo, but hes more of a writer than a vocalist. you can tell they trotted him out there as the token black singer on purpose.

and they gave sam smith an award(which he didnt even show up for). does dude even have any variation of a solid black fanbase? lol.

Sad man, very sad...

Sam smith got more black fans than this man below