Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation

[Cacs R Us]

I dunno how to feel about the cultural appropriation aspect but I'm pretty glad to see Funk come back to the mainstream...

 

[loyola llothta]

Damn its like everybody that start on the coli a few years ago is getting some type of fame

 

[IWunD3r]

Tired of these, “b-b-but what if so and so made an album, it wouldn’t have sold”

shyt isn’t an argument because there is nothing to base it on. Maybe if these R&B singers stopped trying to fukking rap and make trap anthems, they would be more open. Why blame Bruno, for paying homage to those of the past, while his contemporaries are chasing a quick buck.

Be mad at others for not making music like that. We had Usher making stripper songs and shyt, but wanna get mad at someone trying to reinvigorate a genre that hasn’t had mainstream buzz since past 94. Foh.

nikka i agree until the 94's statement. nikka were u locked up, and just got home? rnb died 10 years ago... not no 94'...

 

[You Win Perfect]

Strange coming from a sista who calls herself "sensei", but she is telling 100% truth. We all know this. Cacs ain't shyt. Bruno can copy Morris Day and Bobby Brown all day long, and cacs suddenly give themselves permission to like this type of music

How is it strange? Sensei means what?

Y'all lames really get no p*ssy the way y'all always try to find something negative in black women.

Bruno is a lame as well

 

[XannyWarbucks]

nikka i agree until the 94's statement. nikka were u locked up, and just got home? rnb died 10 years ago... not no damn 94'... wtf????

New jack sound. Babyface sound went for longer. As for when r&b died, I mainly listen to shyt older than me, so I won’t comment.

 

[Vandelay]

Is it really deserving of the negative connotations if the artist acknowledges where tthe sound came from?

That was the whole problem with cultural appropriation I thought...

 

[IWunD3r]

New jack sound. Babyface sound went for longer. As for when r&b died, I mainly listen to shyt older than me, so I won’t comment.

u initially said genre, so that got me confused, but I agree about the sound, and him reviving it.

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Is it really deserving of the negative connotations if the artist acknowledges where tthe sound came from?

That was the whole problem with cultural appropriation I thought...

Apparently getting on the Grammy stage and actually naming the same artist they complaining he biting from ain't enough

 

[XannyWarbucks]

Is it really deserving of the negative connotations if the artist acknowledges where tthe sound came from?

That was the whole problem with cultural appropriation I thought...

Nah blavitys just want to complain about shyt, so that whites can say, “oh god, I admire that spirit sis.” shyt always happens to these shea butter girls. Ad soon as whitey gives props, watch her change her argument to how black men are also to blame. Tied of this shyt,tbh.

To prove it, she only mad that Prince ain’t get a Grammy. Prince, who wouldn’t have gone or given a fukk anyway. Mad that someone didn’t win a cac award, see what I mean.

 

[charmander]

let a black woman named Sensei Aishytemaru tell you about cultural appropriation brehs

 

[8WON6]

its Black folks faults they allowed Bruno into a pop-culture.. then, you go on to blame Black folks for damn near everything else wrong with music..

just Black folks, huh..

This what I see happening anytime other people appropriate black shyt, people turn in back around into black people fault somehow.


full stop.





but yeah, the question is, what exactly do people do about Bruno? Some of yall laughing at Tariq for trying to take the sound back. He's at least providing an alternative. What's the point of sitting around bytching about Bruno Mars if the black alternatives (not Tariq but other more credible artists) to Bruno is either laughed at or ignored?

And i'll say it, some of them Bruno songs are good and that's just an added layer to the dilemma. If I were to call an "appropriator" a karaoke artist it would be someone like Post Malone. His songs sound like a white guy trying to use black/urban/street stereotypical words and just repeating them. That dude has zero talent. Bruno at least can hold a note and make songs that are not so "black" like that Locked out of Heaven song.

 

[Rell84shots]

Is it really deserving of the negative connotations if the artist acknowledges where tthe sound came from?

That was the whole problem with cultural appropriation I thought...

The real problem is Black R&B singers are purposely sabotaged from making money, while every non black singer that does it is heralded as talented. I don't have a problem with Bruno himself, but I have a problem with the millions of frauds who have caked off the genre. The only reason Tariq is defending him is because people were coming for his white music partner.

 

[Majestic]

I dunno how to feel about the cultural appropriation aspect but I'm pretty glad to see Funk come back to the mainstream...

 

[Cacs R Us]

Bless you.

 

[Romell]

nvm