For decades, the music industry has found itself accused of having a biased against acts of ethnic origin, whose ideas are shunned and billed unappealing when fronted by themselves, but embraced and welcomed when ‘borrowed’ by their more ‘traditional’ counterparts.
Today, as he begins work on his latest studio album, Justin Bieber is accused of using Hip Hop culture to further his career by ‘Original Man‘ Lord Jamar, who accuses the star of glorifying a culture rappers are oft penalised for embracing to appear edgy to his core audience.
His words below…
What kind of truth? This punk wants all the benefits that you get when you look like you’re down with black people but lets the press believe that his black friends are bad influences on his life once s*** goes left.
I didn’t agree with everything he said but his point about his friends is dead on. When it suits him he wants to be surrounded by the black cool kids because he thinks they make him look credible but you KNOW it’s the same black cool kids who will be in that police cell taking the wrap for HIS s*** when something goes wrong.
No lies were detected.
This happens all time though. Everyone hates black culture and ties every bad thing that a few black people do to all black people but will turn around and LOVE the same culture if someone with blonde hair and blues does the same thing.
When you’re a black person you carry the weight of every crime someone who looks like you has committed so it’s low key annoying to me that someone can come along and willingly take on the worst parts of our culture but get praised for it just because they’re white.
Why do we take credit for all the bill s***? Why isn’t touring, performing at Oscars, winning the most grammys, having the best voice, having the best dance moves or becoming President is Black culture? Like the things Jay z, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Aaliyah, MJ, Janet, Usher and Tupac done? We need to draw the line between Black culture and hip hop culture, cause they’re NOT the same thing and one has a greater history than the other and the other males us all look like s***.
No Lies detected but I can’t count how many times he was calling Bieber * f**king little Kid* I think bieber/bizzle is an idiotic little kid too. I second you Lord Jamar.
Of-course he is leaching off of black music. Its the popular thing to do nowadays.
His whole attitude started changing. He went from some cute kid star too a wanna be n*****… lol I can’t.
Look at that picture above of him. Since when did he start showing his boxers?
Justin Bieber better find himself as an artist quick or his fame will be ending very shortly …
In the words of Mariah Carey “I hope you can achieve LONGEVITY”…
leeching from black music is not something happening “nowadays”. it’s been going on since the beginning (think elvis). jb looks so fake and ridiculous trying to perpetrate the thug role (egging a house?!…reeally!!) since jt has attempted to steal the michael jackson spot he’s at a loss where to go. well this act badboy act sure ain’t workin’!
Ahh Justin is a young dude trying to find himself…you guys stop being so judgemental. We all did stupid things at that age, his stupid things are unfortunately being played out in the public. He will eventually get it together and step into manhood….
Who cares what this mother f***** thinks. He’s a nobody. The black / white thing shouldn’t even come into it now. When Ne-yo, Usher and every other black singers were doing the whole dance / r&b s***, no on was saying “they are trying to be white”, PATHETIC!!
Thank God someone said it
This is not about music but actions. If a black boy was to act like Justin was the press would have a FIELD day because in their eyes he’d be living up to the stereotype. Justin gets away with his actions because the press still thinks that white people acting stereotypically black is cute.
@niffert where have you been? Whenever a Black artist makes Pop/Dance music they get called a sellout. Usher, Neyo, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Ciara and even Whitney Houston were called sellouts. Michael Jackson even stopped performing in the US because Black America was too critical of him and the type of music he was expected to make for them because he was so big.
leeching from black music is not something happening “nowadays”. it’s been going on since the beginning (think elvis). jb looks so fake and ridiculous trying to perpetrate the thug role (egging a house?!…reeally!!) since jt has attempted to steal the michael jackson spot he’s at a loss where to go. well this act badboy act sure ain’t workin’!
you have no idea what you’re talking about!!! mj did not stop touring in the u s because of black criticism! his music always charted high on the r & b charts. he stopped touring in america after being attacked continuously in the media for unproven child abuse allegations. many whites stopped buying his albums here.
do you hear yourself ? neyo and usher were doing R&B, derived from BLACK CULTURE. so no one in their right mind could ever say they’re trying to be black… sit your ass down. do your research… look at how JB is dressing… how do you g from swoop bang, to baggy clothing & singing about “lipstick on satin sheets”…?
*white
I have the same pants, lol.
OH GAWWED LEAVE IT TO SAM TO USE THE HOTTEST PIC! OHH BABY!
no one cares.
Oh WOW another racist black guy! he’s just mad that a little white boy is doing music better then alot of black men… GET OVER IT!
most whites will always feel that a little white boy (or girl for that matter…britney vs janet) does EVERYTHING better, whether it’s true or not!! it’s too bad but race will NEVER NOT be a factor!!!
So I watched the video and I must say, I do agree and disagree with some of the points he made. For starters, what is ‘acting black?’ I think I agree with MarkIII that we black people and the media at large at times confuse hip hop culture for trying to ‘act black.’ The likes of Beyonce, Obama, Oprah etc are well-mannered, talented, have achieved stellar success and are possibly the most respected people in their career fields. Why not tie that to black culture? There is so much more to us as people than twerking and ‘acting hood’. As for Justin, it is true about his image change. When he first debuted, he was this cute young kid from Canada who just wanted to sing and entertain but then he picked up a couple of bad friends along the way (who just happened to be black) and things have gone on a downward spiral.
The problem is the media, parents of his fans tie his unruly behaviour to his black friends, who in my opinion are nothing more than leeches. Now we see Justin sagging his pants, wearing grillz, using the lingo, making R&B/Hip-Hop influenced music and all of a sudden, he’s trying to be like us. To me that’s not acting black, that’s just being a young kid who is trying a bit too hard to seem cool and fit in. However, i do agree with him in the sense that JB sometimes surrounds himself with said black friends for convenience because once that egging incident happened, Lil Twist took the fall for everything. I do think we need to stop placing labels on people and who can do so, so and so genre. Like, JT for example; people rag on about him making ‘black’ or R&B music but why? He grew up in the South and his appreciation of it comes from a genuine place because he was brought up on it. The same thing goes for Ne-Yo, Usher, Beyonce et al who sometimes experiment with dance or ‘white people’ music (I find this funny because this whole EDM dance music thing originated from blacks). Why should artists be put into a box? As the late Whitney Houston once said, music has no color or boundary. Justin may come across as try hard but we need to let this stereotype go that once a white kid starts sagging his pants and trying to be all wannabe gangsta, he’s not acting black. He’s making a fool out of himself.
First Justin is not leeching off Black music or Black culture because he Jamar or anyone else thinks Black culture/music is drugs, s**, money, snapbacks, tattoos and sagging. Now has he been influenced by hip-hop music/culture, yes he has. Hip-hop has had such a global impact since artists like Eminem, BIG, Pac, Jay, Snoop, Nas, Ludacris, Nelly, Lauryn and Missy popularized it for mainstream America. His first 2 albums have a strong Hip-Hop and R&B influence seeing as how he’s influenced by Usher, Chris Brown and Michael Jackson. But the same thing happens to Black artists when they start making Pop music and don’t act ghetto. Whitney and Janet suffered thru this during the 80s which is why their 90s music had a stronger R&B presence. Remember when Ciara, Rihanna, Usher and Chris Brown got called sell outs for adding Pop music to their albums. Adele gets called a Pop singer because she’s White and Rihanna gets called an R&B singer because she’s Black.
Wow! What an undereducated, profiling, judgemental idiot this guy is. Now I’m not specilifically a JB fan, but to sate there being a problem with his now urban image is him trying to be black is just making a statement proclaiming validation of segregation being necessary. If he was to friend black people and within an incident blk people are blaimed, it does not mean that Justin himself only had the intention to use them as a shortcut out of responsibility. We don’t know that. We don’t know Justin. We don’t know how much of his image is even fully his own choice. He premiered literally as a child. My even bigger problem with this entire video is the fact that there is still black people who have no problem pointing and blaming everyone but themselves. In this case never recognising the recent cross over of hip/hop and dance. All mostly done to further their careers and fan base. And leaves me wondering, is hip/hop music only allowed to influence hip/hop culture? Or any other musical style at that in relation to America’s culture(s). And if so then what right does one have to complain about not being a heard voice in society. I wonder how he would feel if we ever met. I mean I’m “black” and dress behave outside of hip/hops cultural image….Am I trying to be white??
i hate to say it but…….. he sure does look s*** in that picture !
All in All Justin Is the best