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[Gilgamesh.]

Suprised this article doesn't touch on the flip side of this, which is when Black people love to support the underdog, and then drag them for "selling out" when they crossover

[RAY7]

Suprised this article touch on the flip side of this, which is when Black people love to support the underdog, and then drag them for "selling out" when they crossover.

YES

[Hatsumomo]

i think when people say crossong over white america, they basically mean mainstream since white people make up the majority of the population. so if you infiltrate that space, you have a wider audience which means more opportunity.

[Kaeli.]

i think when people say crossong over white america, they basically mean mainstream since white people make up the majority of the population. so if you infiltrate that space, you have a wider audience which means more opportunity.

!!!!
This is how I see it
I don't get excited because Becky and Samantha can name 2 of my fav R&B artists songs

!!!!!! Its not always so shallow as regarding white spaces more. It's no different than singers in the UK wanting so badly to cross over into the US. Its status,  it reaching a wider audience,  more opportunities,  more MONEY,  etc

Agree with all three of these posts

[Dr Naomi Campbell]

Ultimately it comes down to money, if black artists could get the same money, income and revenue by just catering to their demographic they wouldn't bother trying to appease the mainstream

[𝖘𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖉]

Wow, no one agrees with Fro

[Dr Naomi Campbell]

The truth is Janet Jackson didn't cross over. White America did. Just as white people had when Diana Ross and the Supremes were battling the Beatles for music supremacy.

How silly if we would celebrate Jackson only because she won acclaim in white America. The distinction of the Billboard Hot 100 vs. the R&B Top 10 is antiquated, an exercise in branding and marketing. Neither list captures overall popularity. But when a Black artist claws her way up the Hot 100, that tells us something. She has overcome an industry machine intended to divide the nation and target certain groups.

And this.

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

Wow, no one agrees with Fro

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a bitch will stand alone if she has to

Too much work tah be done to be worried about having a more 'opular opinion.

I mean what tf i say