In reply to junior.

Well what could you say for the new urban artists? Even artists today? The black artists that are selling had came in a time where they had established themselves in popular mainstream. Jason, Usher, Pharrell, Beyoncé and Ne Yo are the type of artists that never left the scene and rose to popularity When Urban/R&B was still a very respected genre on Radio. Nowadays the only way artists can be heard is if you were to pull a Tinahse or Jerimah and start coming out with tracks that contain a certain amount of ratchet ness and hip hop hook that can really only be heard on mainstream today. Which to me is very sad. And for the past 3 or 4 years what most black artsits even on "singing shows" face is still a very common reality when someone of a different genre can get more positive reception for a genre that producers and the industry thinks reflects what's flooding the charts, not what's different and who's talented and they're are plenty of amazing R&B artists out there that get more of a kicking to "try harder" sounds like a common fact to me cause it's pretty evident.