Uchenna

Quiet... or papa spank.

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@EricsElectrons Key phrase: "lesser known." Honestly, how many people you know gonna get excited to watch a movie about Sam Langford?

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@Jusaskintard @fandompulse What about when the creator lies about their vision though? There's nothing in Stan's X-Men that resembles racial allegory, those elements were later integrated into the mythos by Chris Claremont. And then Stan grandfathered it into his own vision to take credit for it.

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@maxfeliceshaw @Gentlementos @NerdJackson_ Yall keep saying definitively that I was wrong as if you have actually proven that I am.

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@Maesterwyse95 @d_black_messiah Old enough to remember when waxing the genitals first became a popular procedure. People waxed their legs before that (though even then it was a fairly sensitive process not everybody could do) but doing it to the privates was typically done by a professional.

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@ReezyCulture @sonikku956 @murphdogg29 @NerdJackson_ English, motherfucker, do you speak it. Doesn't matter if it is the original version of it or not. Bieber's performance of the song is called... a rendition.

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@NerdJackson_ Which black person dressed the way Mike is dressed in 1987? He was widely mocked for that outfit, even some members of his own team admitted it was a grave misfire.

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@Gentlementos @NerdJackson_ First of all, that is bullshit. It never ceases to amaze me how yall project your own ignorance and limited experience of the world as some kind of virtue. Secondly, why do you assume I was overseas when the record was released?

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@Gentlementos @NerdJackson_ Point being...?

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@damtiajomj @forevergold3n Rock, punk and country are not black music.

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@ReezyCulture That's how everybody dressed in the 80s

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@ReezyCulture @sonikku956 @murphdogg29 @NerdJackson_ Post-disco started in 1979 but a record released at the end of 1982 is a "pioneer" of the genre? How Sway?
"Baby" is an R&B song. Bieber's rendition of it is not an R&B record. But "Human Nature" is soft rock in the vein of Toto's "Georgy Porgy."

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@ReezyCulture Yes, that is what it wanted to be. But it was so far from the spirit of the street of the time that it just made MJ look hopelessly out of touch.

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@ReezyCulture @sonikku956 @murphdogg29 @NerdJackson_ You say that like those are categories set in stone.

Nothing disco or post-disco about Billie Jean. Human Nature was actually written by the guy from the soft rock band Toto. Lady in My Life was designed for MOR radio. Quiet Storm wasn't even a national radio format in 1982.

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@NerdJackson_ It was an outdated, corny term at that point. And LL was using it ironically, with "B A D" standing for "Bigger and Deffer" which was a more up-to-date idiom.

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@pinfallstunner It wasn't hitting in the clubs. I know because I was there. It got MTV and radio play, and... it was Michael Jackson fresh off of Thriller. Automatically it was gonna sell a truckload right away. But the "urban" dancefloor was not feeling that album at all.

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@pinfallstunner Everything Black people listen to is not the streets. Really dispirited that I even need to explain that to you. Sure Black people bought Bad... But was it hitting in the clubs? No. Were brothas rolling down the street bumping that in the ride? No.

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@ajclassicjr @murphdogg29 @NerdJackson_ No, it hasn't. And especially not to the extent that MJ did. There's a reason Clive Davis commissioned the Harvard Report. But it is pretty reductive to say "Black music" crossed over. Which Black music? Mtume? Maze? Aurra?