Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation

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:russell: at cultural appropriation with pop music. Appropriation is in itself the very core of pop music and it doesn't take a round table discussion to dissect it. Sh!t, Black people appropriate from Black people and one only need to look at how watered down Hip Hop and R& B has become throughout the years as an example of Black on Black appropriation which eventually opens the doors for non-Black folks to swoop in like vultures and pick what's left of the carcases.

I can't take not one of those folks seriously. Folks like that chick are hilarious to me too. Get some dreads, some tea tree oil, read poetry, add a couple words with multiple syllables to your vocabulary, learn to use your hands excessively while talking, and then sit at a round table discussing how a racially ambiguous pop artist is mimicking Black music. That b!tch ain't got nothing better to do? They're really sitting there at the table like they're figuring out how to split an atom. Can't make this sh!t up. Then the folks in the background, "facts!", "Right!", etc.. Room full of retards.
 
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how is that his fault? im not even a fan of bruno...but...i dont see how he gets blame here. he's said he is influenced by black artist pretty often. are you saying he isnt allowed to be influenced by black music if he isnt black

Who said it is his fault? But he's certainly more than willing to let the labels use him to peddle our music behind a blackfaced filipino. So, to some degree, he is a contributor to the theft of our culture by white owned labels. He can be as influenced as he likes, but his music is more than just influenced by the forebears of R&B, moving beyond just taking cues and veering into - as was already mentioned - a karaoke act that is lacking the sincerity of genuine artistry.
 

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:russell: at cultural appropriation with pop music. Appropriation is in itself the very core of pop music and it doesn't take a round table discussion to dissect it. Sh!t, Black people appropriate from Black people and one only need to look at how watered down Hip Hop and R& B has become throughout the years as an example of Black on Black appropriation which eventually opens the doors for non-Black folks to swoop in like vultures and pick what's left of the carcases.

I can't take not one of those folks seriously. Folks like that chick are hilarious to me too. Get some dreads, some tea tree oil, read poetry, add a couple words with multiple syllables to your vocabulary, learn to use your hands excessively while talking, and then sit at a round table discussing how a racially ambiguous pop artist is mimicking Black music. That b!tch ain't got nothing better to do? They're really sitting there at the table like they're figuring out how to split an atom. Can't make this sh!t up. Then the folks in the background, "facts!", "Right!", etc.. Room full of retards.
The following question should have been “so, how does this affect your life?”
 

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So the song Is about drippin in hair spray?
Gotcha.:ehh:

To put it mildly, yes. The song is about being fly, not necessarily about hairspray, but think about this back in the day when they went to the club and nikkas was rocking they curls (jheri, s- or otherwise) they wasn't going in there with they hair looking dry and dingy.

And then take into account that his production team for that album is Shampoo Press & Curl. There are hair references throughout that shyt.
 

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Why is it always rap and R&B? Black folks never give Bad Brains props for pioneering punk:stopitslime: Living Colour and Fishbone have been doing their thing for over 30 years yet y'all ain't at their shows or buying their albums :stopitslime: Y'all shytted on El Compa Negro cuz he was singing in spanish, yet them Mexicans have no problem with it. :stopitslime:Y'all shytted on ol boy who sung in Korean on that talent show:stopitslime:

Black folks get called c00ns and wanting acceptance from other groups when we try to play the same game as others (and do the shyt better) yet y'all don't support:stopitslime: I went to a hip hop show with this rapper named Dalek, breh has a ton of lyrics about black empowerment, I WAS THE ONLY BLACK PERSON IN THE CROWD. :mjlol:
 

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:russell: at cultural appropriation with pop music. Appropriation is in itself the very core of pop music and it doesn't take a round table discussion to dissect it. Sh!t, Black people appropriate from Black people and one only need to look at how watered down Hip Hop and R& B has become throughout the years as an example of Black on Black appropriation which eventually opens the doors for non-Black folks to swoop in like vultures and pick what's left of the carcases.

I can't take not one of those folks seriously. Folks like that chick are hilarious to me too. Get some dreads, some tea tree oil, read poetry, add a couple words with multiple syllables to your vocabulary, learn to use your hands excessively while talking, and then sit at a round table discussing how a racially ambiguous pop artist is mimicking Black music. That ... ain't got nothing better to do? They're really sitting there at the table like they're figuring out how to split an atom. Can't make this sh!t up. Then the folks in the background, "facts!", "Right!", etc.. .

Facts!!!
 

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Who said it is his fault? But he's certainly more than willing to let the labels use him to peddle our music behind a blackfaced filipino. So, to some degree, he is a contributor to the theft of our culture by white owned labels. He can be as influenced as he likes, but his music is more than just influenced by the forebears of R&B, moving beyond just taking cues and veering into - as was already mentioned - a karaoke act that is lacking the sincerity of genuine artistry.
So, he supposed to be some crusader for black music and artists in the boardrooms?
 

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But Bruno always admits where he got his whole style from so this kind of stupid. Hes never denied that his style is from Morris Day, Bobby Brown, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. He even went in a magazine and gave all the props to black music.

Black people don't want to be honest with themselves. They let the R&B genre go to shyt and Bruno(an outsider) built his style around the greatest sounds of R&B and now they're salty. Shouldn't of been letting Usher get away with making strip club songs and Chris Brown sing about unloyal hoes. That 80's R&B sound would still be not in use if Bruno wasn't using it so whats the point of being mad about it?

Exactly, why aren't we pushing those guys like Chris Brown to make more songs like "Fine China", Usher to make more songs like "Confessions", or Trey Songz to make more songs like he did on his first album? Since that's what we want so bad. We get mad at young rappers because they don't show respect to the pioneers, Bruno is doing that in R&B and people are still pissed, dude could go back to making "Grenade" type songs and people would still accuse him of Cultural Appropriation.
 

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:mjlol: black people are mad because Bruno didn't flop and actually sold records doing music that we don't care about any more?

I thought we loved us some bryson tiller and chris brown :sas1:
FACTS! That’s all it boils down.

It’s women’s logic 101. For so BW’s.

She doesn’t want that lame ass n-word.

Soon as that same lame gets with an anglo/other... “They’re taking our men.”
 
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