DO THOSE 8 ARTISTS COMBINED
EQUATE TO 1 HALF BRUNO OR ADELES SALES?
YOU DONT SEE THE PROBLEM?
NON BLACKS GET TO MAKE OUR MUSIC
AND ENJOY SUCCESS.
BLACKS HAVE TO MAKE THAT POP R&B TRAP shyt
TO GET ANY TYPE OF MASS SUCCESS.
Khalid went Platinum...
and like I said....
There are only 3 active and current non Black singers that do Black music that can even be considered successful...three...
Sam Smith, Adele and Bruno Mars...
Nobody is buying Tuxedo albums...
Majority of album sales go to crossover and pop acts...it always been that way...if you stick wholesale to a genre...you ain't gonna sell records...
Beyonce, The Weeknd, Drake (since he sings), Rihanna probably get the majority of album sales right now...and their music crossover...
Bruno Mars ain't making pure RnB, he does Pop...
Sam Smith does Pop....also....and he's from the UK
Adele does Pop...also....
People really acting like Sam Smith, Adele and Bruno Mars are making some pure RnB shyt and they don't...
You can't compare Raphael Saadiq and Solange to Bruno Mars...
You can't compare Brent Fiyaz to Sam Smith
You can't compare Sampha to Adele
If you wanna sell records...you gonna have to do poppy catchy shyt...
And the Black artists that do that tend to be on the cutting edge of music and not engaged in revivalism