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In the full video, others echoed Sensei’s opinions saying that it’s unfair that Mars, who is not black, won the Album of the Year Grammy against a majority of black nominees and is praised for singing black music. In the two-minute clip, activist Seren Sensei took a stance against Mars, stating that he “is 100% a cultural appropriator” and that “he plays up his racial ambiguity” by incorporating a fusion of “black genres” in his current music style. The clip that got around 3 million views is from an episode titled “Is Bruno Mars a Cultural Appropriator?” The Grapevine is made up of “young game changers, artists, cultural innovators, and professionals” who discuss topics in today’s current events and pop culture.
I just want to be a person that makes music,” he said.After clip from an episode of The Grapevine, a YouTube channel that describes itself as “a fresh and innovative take on panel style discussion,” went viral in the beginning of March, a debate has surfaced around artist Bruno Mars and his role in cultural appropriation. “I definitely feel like there’s a struggle being a white rapper. Most recently, white rapper Post Malone sparked a wave of backlash from the hip-hop community after he appeared to dis the genre that made him famous, in a January interview with GQ. White musicians such as rapper Iggy Azalea and Miley Cyrus, who tried her hand at hip-hop as she rose to fame and then openly distanced herself from it, have often been cast as culture vultures. Mars, who has collaborated with many hip-hop artists - most recently, Cardi B - called on Atlanta to select a hip-hop artist to perform at next year’s Super Bowl. “So is it Bruno Mars fault that.he was influenced by BabyFace, Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.around the same time from a hip-hop side I was influenced by DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and The Beatminerz? This is a Sociology study on influence and exposure.” hip-hop music producer 9th Wonder tweeted. “Keep making that funky ish, Do you always,” Grammy-nominated rapper Rapsody tweeted. Mars, who dashed hip-hop’s Grammy dreams in January when he won album, record and song of the year, also got some words of encouragement from the hip-hop community. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for these artists who inspired me.” Dre, Boyz II Men, Aaliyah, TLC, Babyface, New Edition, Michael, and so much more. Pop music was heavily rooted in R&B from Whitney, Diddy, Dr. “I’m a child raised in the ’90s,” he continued.
So, in my world, Black music means everything. Being Puerto Rican, even salsa music stems back to the Motherland. “When you say ‘Black music,’ understand that you are talking about rock, jazz, R&B, reggae, funk, doo-wop, hip-hop and Motown,” he said in a February 2017 interview with Latina magazine.”Black people created it all. In defending Mars, fans pointed to statements the artist made paying tribute to the Black pioneers who inspired his music. Wilson - the former lead vocalist of R&B/funk group The Gap Band - also praised “24K Magic,” which won Mars six Grammys this year, saying, “Bruno’s songs on this album are original and no different from any other artist pulling inspiration from genres before him.” R&B singer Charlie Wilson, one of the Black artists Mars is accused of copying, praised the musician in a Twitter message and credited him with helping to “bring back that classic New Jack / R&B sound to the masses when it was left for dead years ago and hard for artists to get that sound back on mainstream radar.” What type of music is this man “allowed” to do?” Are people saying that Bruno Mars shouldn’t sing? Or that when he sings he needs to somehow whiten that s- up and sound more like Rod Stewart,” “Black Lives Matter” activist and writer Shaun King tweeted. Meanwhile, others jumped to Mars’ defense. Bruno Mars as an example is an awkward one because he has paid homage but that doesn’t discredit that he can still benefit from the ambiguity,” one Twitter user wrote. “Yeah, she makes a valid point about the appropriation of Blackness and how it is now lucrative rather than taboo. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy.” He’s a karaoke singer, he’s a wedding singer, he’s the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. “He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. “What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it,” she added.
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He is not Black, at all, and he plays up his racial ambiguity to cross genres,” writer and activist Seren Sensei said in a clip for “The Grapevine,” a web series that explores African-American issues. “Bruno Mars 100 percent is a cultural appropriator.
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