Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation

[AlainLocke]

Have a Japanese name and say Bruno Mars is cultural appropriating

 

[Hungerpain]

Can only speak for myself, but it's not so much caping for Bruno Mars as it is pointing out the ridiculousness of crying about appropriation on every damn thing out here. Weirdo septum ring, poetry reading tramps who find everything "problematic" are insufferable any more with all the whining they do. They whine more than they contribute to anything meaningful related to Black people. They're on here too. Got their little poetry, some new words in their vocabulary, some tea tree oil, some new dreads and overnight everything becomes problematic to them.

The irony too of Black folks whining about Bruno Mars' cultural appropriation is there's a fair amount of older Black folks that love his music. The septum ring poetry reading chick crying and carrying about his music probably has to hear it every time her mother picks her up at the end of every semester.

You said all that to discredit her but yet she's still right.
I dont rock with her type neither but the truth is the truth no matter where or who its coming from.
Yall nikkas cant juelz what she said away without it being considered caping.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

What's her name?

@Stacker Pentecost

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

For the last time ... Teddy Riley said he ain’t mad and added that he’s doin his thing... so why the fukk are y’all mad again?!!

Y’all allowed this to happen ...
...go make a full black Bruno and/or put your money behind other black nostalgia pop r&b acts...

... otherwise

Rodney King wanted to get along after his ass whooping too. Sometimes people take up the fight off gp

 

[BlackMajik]

Stealing and repackaging black artforms and profiting from them while the black artist suffers is a big ass problem!

And if u got a problem with someone speaking out about that U A fukkING SAMBO!!!

 

[Detroit Wave]

She 100% right but c00ns gon still and play it at the bbq

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

white people like black music better when you put a non-black face on it

the same politics are a part of why eminem was so big. if he was black he'd just be tech n9ne. an underground horrorcore rapper with great lyrical ability.

same politics as to why adele is so big. if she was black adele would be jasmine sullivan status.

we know what's up.

that's what happens when you're in a majority white / majority non-black country.

the only problem i have is we as black people don't passionately support our exceptional musicians to the point they just become a fringe niche artist. no reason daniel ceasar shouldn't be bigger but since he's not making vulgar strip club anthems or makes music that "bangs in the whip" we brush artist like that to the side most of the time. we helped make black panther one of the highest grossing movies ever but we can't make H.E.R. bigger?

trap is cool but you got a lot of black people who ONLY listen to that shyt and the only time they venture out of that is for the weeknd or bryson tiller and that's a problem.

Trudat....but we exhibit the same behavior.

In tennis, golf etc., most brehs wouldn't be checking for anyone unless it's Venus/Serena or Tiger. Hockey has yet to get a breh that really appeals to black America at large. You need someone that's super talented, unapologetic in their blackness and apart of a great team (better in a major U.S. market) to increase visibility. Whites are no different. Of course they're going to root for and consume media more readily when the stars look like them. We can't expect them to NOT cheer for #TeamWhite if we're going to root for our heroes.

Imagine a 6'7" American-born white dude that women find attractive. He's got Steph Curry shooting ability, Westbrook athletic ability and hoops IQ like Bron. All those "I prefer college over the NBA" folks in middle America would be going nuts watching NBA games with a cat like that.

 

[BlackMajik]

She 100% right but c00ns gon still and play it at the bbq

U see all these c00ns who got they capes flying lol

 

[ElectroMan]

She 100% right but c00ns gon still and play it at the bbq

Yet no one seriously calls out cultural appropriation in rock music. Matter of fact a breh who listens to rock music is considered a white boi.

 

[Kings County]

aint this chick on the coli
lol who gives a fukk
yall complain about everything

i could see if he was 100% cac
but hes not
this girl got a problem with everythingggggg



smh at this tweet

 

[swag2011]

If you don’t get her point, then you won’t understand it till white/racially ambiguous people take over dancehall, reggae, and Afrobeats.

Black people stay getting hype and wanting to invite white/racially ambiguous people to the “cookout” for doing shyt black people BEEN doing.

Only reason y’all think his music is so great because it’s a literal imitation of the black artist he imitates. That’s it. It’s not better than the music he imitates, nor is it anything new. Nor does he make it his own or something fresh.

While I’m not sure if I agree with the term “appropriation” I do see it as SMUDGING. In the U.S, blacks have created damn near every genre, whites stole it, repackaged it with a white face, and sold it back to us with no respect or credit to the black artists it came from. Blacks have been wiped out of rock n Roll, sister Rosetta Tharpe still never gets her proper due. Y’all saw how white people acted a fool when Beyonce performed at the CMA’s a few years ago, never mind blacks created that and still listen to that in the South. We’ve seen this story over and over again. We’ve been wiped out of our culture then told we have no culture.

Is Bruno Mars music bad? No? Is he talented? Yes. Is he original? Hell naw. But black people caping for him so hard just cause y’all hype to see a non black person make black music smh.

 

[George's Dilemma]

That "chick" ur talking about is on here

Go ahead and @Stacker Pentecost since u got a lot of shyt to say lol

U sound emotional as fukk defending Bruno Mars lmaooo. She's absolutely right

Muthafukkas prefer "Black Music" when its from from a non-black person

I'm not emotional over it other than initially being annoyed by something so petty and minor to whine about like all these new age "activists" do. Really though, it's just hilarious. Bunch of "educated" folks sitting around a table debating whether or not Bruno Mars is a culture vulture. There's a more intellectual discussion to be had between two walls of wet paint drying.

 

[John Hull]

aint this chick on the coli
lol who gives a fukk
yall complain about everything

i could see if he was 100% cac
but hes not
this girl got a problem with everythingggggg



smh at this tweet

Yeah she got a few screws loose. Yet and still fucc Bruno Mars

 

[Swagnificent]

I agree with homegirl's points but Bruno isn't the problem its more so the execs and people in power that make these decisions.

No. The problem is black people. Cause we're the ones that co-sign these non-black artists that are doing parodies of our music.

Until black people start supporting only black artists, you'll see non-black bodies being pushed forward doing black music.

We're dangerously close to a world where rap and RnB will become like Rock N Roll. An originally black artform with no more major black artists.

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

You said all that to discredit her but yet she's still right.
I dont rock with her type neither but the truth is the truth no matter where or who its coming from.
Yall nikkas cant juelz what she said away without it being considered caping.

This is a good conversation because I see where both of you are coming from. If you're in close contact with other cultures, yeah, they will borrow your stuff and in theory, you will borrow theirs. That's just how human contact works.

On the other hand, appropriating from black people in America is a special case because of how egregiously non-black people have taken black forms of art that were forced outside of the mainstream by a racist society and then watered it down enough to make money off of it. Let's be real, Bruno Mars is just caffeine-free Diet James Brown, but I bet he makes more money than James Brown ever did off of this music.

From that perspective, this is exactly why I get where people like the woman in the OP are coming from. She has a name based on a Japanese word, but Japanese culture hasn't been raped and mined by non-Japanese people to the level that black American culture has by non-black people. It's just different.