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Poll: 2010s worst decade for black female musicians?
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Yes
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Member Since: 5/19/2012
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This is why Tinashe and Justine need to happen
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Bey and Rih are just too dominant that it feels like it's been an amazing decade for black females.
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Beyoncé is the only black female to sell over 2 million albums in pure sales in the U.S
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What is this mess? Do you mean to have an album selling over 2M in pure sales?
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Originally posted by Can't_M!ss_This
I don't want to point out an awkward truth but fans of Rihanna don't want Beyoncé to have success. Fans of Beyoncé don't want Rihanna to have success. Fans of Nicki Minaj don't want any other black female rapper having success.
I mean for real though. It's like to them there is only room for one. It's very sad
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like crabs in a bucket. only one black female can be on top at a time.
However, I've been told by radio DJs before that music is too "black" to play.....so then there is that.
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Originally posted by Saintlor
Stay mad that R&B music is dated and they went onto other ventures
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This is extremely ignorant.
Kinda funny because Drake, Chris, Bryson, and The Weeknd are all slaying with their "dated" music.
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Originally posted by Scotty
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Member Since: 7/21/2012
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It's simple really. Black females generally sing R&B, and the genre is a dying breed.
Rihanna managed because she is Pop. Beyonce is a Legend, and Nicki is a rapper who also went the Pop route.
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Originally posted by King Maxx
It's simple really. Black females generally sing R&B, and the genre is a dying breed.
Rihanna managed because she is Pop. Beyonce is a Legend, and Nicki is a rapper who also went the Pop route.
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R&B isn't dying. It's evolving and influencing almost every mainstream genre of music. We wouldn't have pop music as we know it without rhythm & blues. It's just that '90s era commercialized R&B, particularly when led by black women, is not hot right now.
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
R&B isn't dying. It's evolving and influencing almost every mainstream genre of music. We wouldn't have pop music as we know it without rhythm & blues. It's just that '90s era commercialized R&B, particularly when led by black women, is not hot right now.
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Yes, sorry, that is what I meant.
Radio, even Urban stations, aren't spinning K. Michelle and Jhene Aiko. Their music is not what is popular these days. Ciara has potential. I just don't know what to say about that really.
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Originally posted by 6_INCH_HEELS
I feel like Nicki could be helping to open more doors and further cement her legacy by ushering in a new wave of female MCs, but she won't because she's afraid to have serious competition. Some of these women are a part of the problem.
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Nicki had Dej open up for her tour and offered to have Azealia open up for too wdym?
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Black females are arguably at the forefront of pop/mainstream music like they've never been before. What would you rather have? Lots of black females all with moderate success or two HUGE black female artists pushing trends and shaping culture (with the addition of Nicki Minaj)?
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Originally posted by AxelFox
They definitely lack something. It's not like we don't have successful black females at all. In fact, Beyonce has been the most popular and celebrated woman in the music industry, and may I say even beyond the music industry, and she's black. Rihanna's among the best selling acts of the decade, and she's black. Nicki Minaj is the most successful female rapper out there and she is black. We have black females in girl groups as well. There are mixed girls like Ariana too.
It's not racism, it's not mysoginism, it's just that those indie artists' style is too weird to make an impact to the GP.
They don't make music for the masses, of course they're not gonna find great success. And making music for the masses does not necesarilly mean bad music. You're a Beyonce fan as well, you should know that her pre-Lemonade music is music for the masses as well.
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Originally posted by 6_INCH_HEELS
I feel like Nicki could be helping to open more doors and further cement her legacy by ushering in a new wave of female MCs, but she won't because she's afraid to have serious competition. Some of these women are a part of the problem.
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First of all, all of these female rappers diss her. She won't work with them.
Secondly, she is not the Mother Teresa of Rap. She does not owe it to anyone. She has no competition because there simply is none.  Does Rihanna help women? Beyonce? Gaga? Katy? Taylor? Miley? Selena? Ariana? No.
Nicki has her own artists signed to her since 2012, and they have yet to put out a record so I wouldn't expect her to help an artist she may not even like at another label. If money ain't involved, she's not helping. Male or female.
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Honestly it has nothing to do with them making R&B because male R&B artists doing just fine, the problem is not many of them have potential and the ones that do aren't being promoted.
Justine Skye has potential, but Jay isn't promoting her. I'm Yours could easily be a hit if they played their cards right, but they're letting her flop. Same thing goes for Tinashe. Even though everything from this era is trash, if she delivered the same quality of material as Aquarius and was promoted right, she could be up there with Demi at the least.
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Agree with "prominence over quantity." Beyonce, an unapologetically black woman, is one of the single most influential humans in the world. That means way more than some quick little #1s.
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If I'm not mistaken, Beyonce, Rihanna, Nicki & Willow are the only black females with solo top 20 hits this decade
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Absolutely 
#JusticeForTinashe #JusticeForAzealia #JusticeForZendaya #JusticeForKeke #JusticeForCupcake #JusticeForNatalie
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Originally posted by OnikaSlays
Honestly it has nothing to do with them making R&B because male R&B artists doing just fine, the problem is not many of them have potential and the ones that do aren't being promoted.
Justine Skye has potential, but Jay isn't promoting her. I'm Yours could easily be a hit if they played their cards right, but they're letting her flop. Same thing goes for Tinashe. Even though everything from this era is trash, if she delivered the same quality of material as Aquarius and was promoted right, she could be up there with Demi at the least. |
Miguel (Has sold only 65k albums THUS FAR), Luke James, Musiq Soulchild, Anthony Hamilton, Charles Bradley, Anderson .Paak, dvsn, Adrian Younge, Gallant, BJ the Chicago Kid & the other 50 black men that released R&B are NOT doing well. It IS a reason they're not doing well.
The Weeknd is a Pop artist.
Tinashe is doomed even more than the rest for being on RCA Records where careers go to die.
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Originally posted by Wicked
Miguel (Has sold only 65k albums THUS FAR), Luke James, Musiq Soulchild, Anthony Hamilton, Charles Bradley, Anderson .Paak, dvsn, Adrian Younge, Gallant, BJ the Chicago Kid & the other 50 black men that released R&B are NOT doing well. It IS a reason they're not doing well.
The Weeknd is a Pop artist.
Tinashe is doomed even more than the rest for being on RCA Records where careers go to die.
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There's also Tory, Bryson, Chris, and even Drake though. Most of the artists you named are indie or make traditional R&B so could you really expect them to sell tons and be all over the charts?
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