Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation

[GPBear]

Be a man and use words like "misogynistic" brehs.

You're a walking parody of insecurity.

Keep stanning white pharmaceutical executives, you fukking alt-right clown

 

[Thanos]

I don't feel strongly either way. But the discourse is hilarious. People out here defending this man like he's they daddy. I love some artists but I'm not cape for them at every term. I'mma be like i love the music and that's that. Speaking of daddies, y'alls is going after a coli poster.

 

[Benefited]

There were always white knock offs when blacks created a NEW artform,so being upset that Bruno is rehashing old black artforms? The difference is back then black people knew who the authentic version was,and supported it. And the black artist didnt sell their soul at the first sign of white dollars to abandon us and go make watered down music for cacs.

Hate to say it but alot of blacks are mad at the fact we have to admit these non black artist are of equal pedigree to the black people we have at the forefront of our artforms at the moment

Long gon are the days we would simply shyt on them,laugh them off,nikkas is actually threatened,never thought I would see this day

 

[George's Dilemma]

Black people need to stop pocket watching europeans,who cares if Bruno makes more money off that watered down shyt he does,over James Brown? It's not black folks greenlighting that or dishing out more money for him than we did for James Brown. This is the problem with us,we would rather get the type of money they getting over there,than to keep our own dignity,self respect,and have ownership over our culture.

We can't be happy only making the kind of money you make,only catering and selling to black people. Then get upset when the white people you invite in to help sell you to their fellow cacs,try to make one of their own into a star,or don't give a damn about cultural appropriation and just want to make money. If black folks still had self worth in ourselves and our talents,Bruno Mars existence wouldn't even matter. There would be a black equivelant right now that would make Bruno Mars afraid to show his face in front of a black audience. But instead are young talents are busy trying to "get the bag" catering to cacs,putting out horrible music that takes minimal talent,that black people can't even respect the effort it took to make it,because their was none.

What you posted reminded me of an article on Sam Cooke after hearing Bob Dylan's Blowin by the Wind. The type of pride described in the following isn't within a lot of folks today as evident by their crying for acceptance and whining about cultural appropriation.


The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come”

In a story that has come to symbolize the ways in which American popular music intersected with and helped sustain the civil-rights movement, Cooke was motivated to write “A Change Is Gonna Come” by another sixties anthem, Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” When he first heard that song, Peter Guralnick writes in 2005’s “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke,” he “was so carried away with the message, and the fact that a white boy had written it, that . . . he was almost ashamed not to have written something like that himself.”

 

[Tribal Outkast]

People keep saying that tv is dead and shyt like that but shyt was so much better back when we had video shows on the main cable networks. We don't want to admit it, but people have to be told what's hot. Artists getting millions of views on youtube or millions of streams only helps certain artists.Somebody need to get a video show popping either on tv or on some shyt like Complex or something... Oh yeah, it's tough online because these lables be ready to sue your ass.

 

[Shadow King]

When a non-black person does music that originated with black people then they are cultural appropriators.

But he acknowledges where it originates. We can't brag on being the most influential ethnic group then get mad when the influence shows. If he grew up on music by black artists is he supposed to be sounding like Elton John?

 

[Londilon]

Not surprised by the video. Its usually black women who point out culture appropriation before a black man does.

 

[Hugs]

I aint mad a bruno mars, his music is shyt and he rips on black culture, but he is clearly talented.

Yall (nikkas) allowed this fukkery, as well as this fakkit rap from all the lil uzi fakkits and lil opium overdoses, yall are to blame.

Yall lowered the bar in both rnb, rap, and rocknroll, allowing all these crackers like lil xan, pump, bruno, r.thicke, and Timberlake to come through

Timbaland and The Neptunes never should've worked with non-black artists in the early-'00s

 

[Apollo Creed]

I agree with her but black folk need to stop obsessing over that cac ass gold statue, got damn


stop looking for massa's approval

White approval is all most black people know and live for.

A soul train or BET award is seen as a joke but white awards are the gold standard being that they have white validation.

You can have 500 grammys and you will still he a n*gger in America.

Mofos want to be the first black person to do something white people have done versus being part of a self sufficient society.

 

[wtfyomom]

of course shes right. this aint new. it happened to rock n roll. I remember thinking like damn at one point nikkaz was into rock n roll like that? Thats what theyre gonna be saying about hip hop 20 years from now. once it becomes the most popular music you know white people are gonna take it over. Time to invent some new music genre that they dont catch onto to for another 50 years or so

 

[Hugs]

Rihanna straight ripped one of Tama Impalas track for her last album. Literally the entire song, and that was from their last album.

Literally have Kanye West and 40 as producers but re-release mediocre cac shyt, brehs

 

[DoubleClutch]

A better way to state that point is people like black culture, they just don't like black people. They want black culture delivered to them from non-black people.

Yea and you don’t think Bruno is aware of this.

You know he has some guilty conscience yet the money and fame is too good to resist.

Plus it’s a format that’s way to easy.

Not taking away from him being a great performer and singer

Still not better than Chris Brown though

 

[Benefited]

A better way to state that point is people like black culture, they just don't like black people. They want black culture delivered to them from non-black people.

how do you guys explain hiphop then?hiphop was the greatest genre of all because it was the most defiantley black genre,that was unwelcoming of whites and european culture

Once it became so watered down and europeanized by the likes of Kanye,Kid Cudi etc,that white people might as well get it from people who look like themselves and bypass black people.

Rock is different,its not really based around anything a white man couldn't do. But RNB,Hiphop and Funk should be untouchable genres as far as blacks monopolizing it and being at the forefront. There should not be as many non blacks at the forefront of those genres as their are right now. But there are because the standards,authenticity and talent bar has been lowered by us in order to appeal to europeans to get european dollars.

Black people left out of the gate to do some fukk shyt, and left it wide open for some fukk shyt to make its way in

 

[Ineedmoney504]

"we" didn't support Eminem. At least where I'm from. Most em fans were people who were saying " I don't like rap, but I like Eminem". Non-black people.

Nah the hip hop community definitely didn’t cut off support for him. They still featured on his tracks, allow they songs on his movie sound tracks, signed to his labels. Allow him to win awards. So no we as culture did support him.


Nobody even really speak out on his races tape that came out and we support him over benzino

 

[cheek100]

Word that’s bae