This article was surprisingly honest, Trent. Bravo. Why can't more of your posts be like this? Even though I completely disagree with you I actually enjoyed the fact that it wasn't littered with insults and jabs more suitable for Perez Hilton. (Sidenote: his website might get a lot of hits, but people care for him less than a pile of garbage on the sidewalk. Don't end up like him please.)

These people's lack of success is not due to their skin color. Justin Timberlake after years of N'Sync, I can see why his R&B appeal didn't quite click with everyone, but his album was still a great one, and I see no reason as to why he was snubbed at the Grammy's. That doesn't mean skin color had anything to do with it.

Now with Ciara and Kelly Rowland, we have a case of fanbases that are not quite strong enough. Everything @CONVERSATION CHAMBER is very true. He took the words right out of my mouth. While artists who are black might have to try a little harder to get people on board with their sound, as was the case with Rihanna's Rated R, it's not impossible.

To some degree though, you may be on to something. For example I saw my darling Janelle Monae's album on iTunes listed as R&B only, when the girl clearly has much more than R&B going on in that album.