He was helped by African American music.
Of all people y’all choose to go hard on, it’s Bruno Mars?
I don't know why nikkas acting surprised tho, shyt ain't new.
In the 1950's and 60s cac musicians literally jacked Black Roll & Roll-they didn't even bother changing the lyrics on the record. Their bland, plagiarised songs went to the top of the charts and they made more money than the original creator of the music.
It was pure racism. Those old Black Rock & Roll artists died in poverty while mediocre cac Rock bands made millions FROM THEIR SONGS. Blacks went on to create R&B, Soul, Disco, Funk, Techno, House and Hip-Hop. Blacks had to constantly evolve and innovate to stay ahead.
Now in 2018, R&B and Hip-Hop / Grime are the biggest and most creatively dominant genres of music worldwide.
Rock & Roll is dead.
Farewell to NME: a rock'n'roll riot that petered into silence | Alexis Petridis
The fcking cacs can't sustain it because they simply do not have the creativity.
Of course this injustice can't be done so blatantly nowadays. That's why 40 years later, Hip-Hop & R&B are still majority black genres. The richest musician in the world is Jay-Z.
What will happen is what has always happened:
1. Blacks create new genre of music.
2. Achieves huge success in the mainstream.
3. Mediocre cacs hi-jack the culture.
4. Blacks get pushed out of their own genre.
5. Blacks create new genre.
Rinse and repeat.
Not to mention that all of the rappers black people considered the greatest rappers of all time like Rakim turned around and named Eminem the greatest of all time. If I had a dollar for every time a black rapper called Eminem the greatest of all time
Because we are trendy people, not only that but we create the trends and move on to some next shyt. Nonblacks are our fans so they appreciate our old music while young blacks look at older black genres as their parents old school music. Hell you got nikkas in they 20s today that refuse to listen to 90s rap.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
Why not? Like I said. Peoples dilemma with Bruno is they know he's clearly a vulture, he's just really good at it. So folks are like " can't we let it go this one time?"
Or Ralphy.. This song is a throwaway, album cut, that made it onto the Kid n Play soundtrack.. and even then it blows that dumb song out the water
On top of that I'm sure most black American music doesn't have roots from Nigeria anyway, more so the region around Mali. Maybe Jamaican and other Caribbean music is based off Nigerian shyt.The heart, and soul of negro slaves in chattel slavery, toiling away and suffering perhaps the greatest human atrocity(over extended period) known to man!
Sorry, Nigeria, or any WA country for that matter have very little claim to any of that. When we crossed the Atlantic, and touched down it became our problem.So again placing yourself as an authority on anything unrelated to what's going on in Lagos, or 'Afro beats' maybe is..
