Secure Da Bag
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I was just about to say I think it's a safe bet that won't happen
Finds a video from back in the day that shows her doing some wild shyt.
Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation
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Finds a video from back in the day that shows her doing some wild shyt.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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I agree with you and I would like to hear you expound upon your stance
FukkaPaidEmail
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Y'all really gonna attack Bruno when nikkas nikkas got zero issues blastin lil peep ,g herbo,Post Malone ,lil.xan and the rest of the new cacs out here .
I don't even like Bruno and I think he overrated as hell but how is it his fault that the singing nikkas out here rather sing over trap beats ? nikkas left the lane open and Bruno ran through it.Dont blame him blame the musicians and consumers for allowing this supposed appropriation to happen.
I don't even like Bruno and I think he overrated as hell but how is it his fault that the singing nikkas out here rather sing over trap beats ? nikkas left the lane open and Bruno ran through it.Dont blame him blame the musicians and consumers for allowing this supposed appropriation to happen.
I think there’s a difference between an artist that is influenced by black music and an artist who is a fake. We admit that black music is great and yet don’t expect people from other cultures to be influenced by it? This isn’t a battle worth having. I don’t blame Bruno. Blame the record companies. They determine who gets pushed and what music gets out there. Y’all blaming the person at the checkout and not the company that tells them what to do. 
Wear My Dawg's Hat
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Difference is Black people elevated, created, break new ground, pushed the culture forward in sports....
Bruno ain't elevating, creating or trying to push the culture forward
When was it established that each song or artist has to "break new ground" for us to like something?
Is this criteria that developed during the cell phone generation?
When Anita Baker was singing "Sweet Love" in the 80s, she made folks think of Sarah Vaughan's music 40 years earlier. She wasn't breaking ground. She sold millions off of Sarah's influence.
Should the estate of Prince sue Childish Gambino over "Redbone"? Great song, but its an homage to earlier
music styles. Nothing wrong with that.
The O'Jays said it 43 years ago and it still stands": "I love music, just as long as its groovin'."
(And the O'Jays are products of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records system.
Unfortunately, the Woke iPhone Twitter Millennials don't know how to build black music companies like we used to regularly, which is one of the real problems, not the feminine allegations of "appropriation" we keep hearing.)
You posted that like it's a good thing. At this point, most people are just tired of hearing them constantlely whine about "cultural appropriation" all the time & don't take them seriously.
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AlainLocke
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Difference is Black people elevated, created, break new ground, pushed the culture forward in sports....
Bruno ain't elevating, creating or trying to push the culture forward
Imagine a non black player in the nba today playing with a 1960s type of style & people gushing over shyt that been done years ago..
Thats Bruno
Country music is black music btw
Bruh....
Let me put it this way...
Japanese people (Roland) made the damn modern drum machine...the TR-808
Europeans make all the damn software that people make their music on...
There would be no Planet Rock wtihout the TR-808...
Who you think wrote a lot of these RocknRoll songs...(those were Jews and other European ethnics btw)
Ableton, Pro-Tools and FL Studio ain't made by Black people - not even Americans....(the shyt 99 percent of people make music on today...
Serum, Sylenth, Omnisphere... (the actual sounds and shyt of the 99 percent music you listening to on the radio...) isn't made by Black people....
There's a difference between being the face of something and actually making it happen and making the infrastructure to make everything possible...
We need to stop letting being seen go to our heads...
People need to wake up for real... and look at the layers of the shyt...
People wanna only take credit of what is seen and wonder why they losing...
Basically...really just said...
"Well Black people are popular athletes...so we get to appropriate White sports..."
Don't own the league, don't make the rules, don't make the equipment...but we are seen....
Nobody cares bruh...for real...they'll let anybody get all the credit as long as they get the money and have control at the of the day...
You think Yamaha, Roland, Native Instruments, Steinberg and AKAI care about the "culture"...?
Culture changes all the time...institutions that facilitate that change stays...
You know how many different groups of people from all over the world it takes to create art...but only wanna care about the person that performs it?
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Nigerianwonder
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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..
You cannot separate the black music from its african roots. To try to do so is c00nish. Where do you think the slaves got their instruments from? Drums were not invented in america. The rhythmic patterns, drums, percussion, instruments etc.. all originate from Africa. They literally teach courses on this stuff yet you are in denial. Good thing all of your favorite celebrated musicians from the motown era, stevie wonder, george clinton, james brown, marvin gaye etc are not and have all spoken about the african influence in their music.
No matter how hard you c00n you cannot separate your self from Africa and your african roots. Half of my family is american black by the way( yes slave blood is in me) and I was raised here in america my whole life so there goes that narrative as well. So it appears I do have more authority than you to speak on these matters since you probably hate yourself and have limited understanding of Africa and probably never attempted to even learn.
Secure Da Bag
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The one thing I do agree with is that when black folk created a genre (or anything really) it's not recognized. But when non-black people do/use it (the same thing), then it's lauded, awarded, and embraced en masse. That is aggravating. Very aggravating.
EarlyEarly
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I swear this guy was Sri Lankan
Secure Da Bag
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Where's the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation? And what about cultural acceptance? I mean if Bruno Mars is making new jack swing music and is winning grammy and billboard awards, then that would mean that black people as consumers have accepted him and the black musicians/artists have allowed him into that space as well. How much responsibility are we supposed to be putting on ourselves for assisting Bruno's rise to fame? Or is this all white people's fault?
Tribal Outkast
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Bruh.... I am watching the episode. I'm so dead! These kids are literally getting so heated about Bruno fukking Mars! nikkas literally about to fight! It is not this serious!
BrooklynShow
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She's a member of the coliStrange 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
