Soul music IS Black and will ALWAYS be Black. If you can't hear the difference between a soulful Black singer and a white performer who is trying to sound Black, then that's on you. The white male power structure is ALWAYS busy trying to marginalize ANYTHING we're doing and THEN try to take it over ultimately. First, they said our music was "Devil" music. Then they started TRYING to emulate it. This behavior from the white boy is NOTHING new. He's been trying for YEARS to sound like us but simply CANNOT!! So now, he's conspired to stop US from singing with Soul so that he can compete with us in OUR music style and ULTIMATELY leave US unable to get work doing OUR music. I can't stand Will I.Am and that techno/electronica/pop crap he and MANY others have been churning out the last decade. All the white boy had to do was find some untalented Blacks who have no soul, and elevate them to the top of the charts by hype and supermarketing. And as usual, stupid Blacks wanting to love/be whitey, go out and buy that crap acting like it's something cool. I'm not worried though because there will ALWAYS be the Black church where we can hear some soulful music. Jazz and Gospel is all I listen to these days anyways!! LOL