Smokey Robinson: "Motown Is NOT Only For Black People, But Everybody". (JLo Is Part Of Us Too)
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Wake me up when it's something important.
A biracial trying to tell Black people what does/does not belong to us.
you know how many hits he wrote for motown lmao, the music was made to be accepted for all audiences, they was not bumping that shyt in the juke joints lmao
No no no
exactly it didn't have the gritty bluesy sound of STAX RECORDS (issac hayes..booker t) and it didn't have that smoothed out urban soul of the PHILLY INTERNATIONAL CREW (harold melvin..patti labelle...teddy p.)
MOTOWN was the FLO-RIDA of the 60's.....
and real cats like MARVIN GAYE hated that stigma....
but i still feel a BLACK R&B ARTIST should have SUNG THOSE SONGS..
NOT J-LO
I appreciate motown for being a black business, but the music was some watered down candy shyt, it got better when stevie and gaye took over as the lead writers
but the entire objective of motown was to sell music to white people lmao, the talent was so good black people still liked it, even though that shyt was not what the streets on back then
Before motown they tried to do with Sam Cook, they called it Sweet Soul
ThatTruth777
Superstar
And where you from?A biracial trying to tell Black people what does/does not belong to us.
I don't give a fukk what he wrote, it's BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC at the end of the day. It came from us.
Does it matter?
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
marvin caused the whole roster to step their game up
who's disputing that, the merely stated the music was created for everybody which it was, the target audience was to bring in a more worldly customer, so its not a surprise most fan of motown aren't black
Rap gonna to be same way, these nikkaz don't feel like they made until they all performing in front all white audiences lmao
Well, Damn. If that's the case, do we have anything we can truly call OURS?
So, he is still mixed, but has more black in him?
His mother was biracial
Black + Biracial = Black
Not when you sell it out, also On of the funk Brothers was white, the guys who played all the music on motown records
yall nikkaz on this site given passes to wack ass eminem but ain't putting respect on an actual great musician
Muthafukkaz abandoned all this music and history so they can turn up with gay ass future, and only wanna bring this stuff up when someone non black like bruno mars is paying homage