rock music is Black music

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Kravitz is more mystified, though, by how he’s been treated by Black entertainment and culture outlets. Take Vibe magazine, which featured a who’s who of Black artists in its pages when it began publishing in 1993 but waited almost a decade to put Kravitz on the cover. And it wasn’t just Vibe. “To this day, I have not been invited to a BET thing or a Source Awards thing,” he says. “And it’s like, here is a Black artist who has reintroduced many Black art forms, who has broken down barriers—just like those that came before me broke down. That is positive. And they don’t have anything to say about it?

He’s got a point. And it’s not as if he has scandals hanging over him. Punch “Lenny Kravitz controversy” into the search engine of your choice and all that comes up is a wardrobe malfunction involving a pair of split leather pants that was out of his control. But Kravitz can’t make sense of the reception he’s received over the years—he doesn’t understand why his success “is not celebrated by the folks who run those publications or organizations. I have been that dream and example of what a Black artist can do.”

TK421 & that Peggy Gou single out now

too mysterious

I still bang the Justice remix

By the time he got famous, black culture moved away from any Rock influence into R&B & Rap and the industry reduced black people to those two genres.

He’s one of those dudes where I genuinely don’t know who his demo is

He put Zoe Kravitz in the world, you say he not a goat??????

Met an old lesbian couple who loved him

Like seal lmao

It was always the kids/moms in the burbs

why yall care about demos just good music

Justice

Better get a feature with Sexy Red

the sales thread has caused widespread brain damage

#unstickyit #makekttgreatagain

Admittedly I can't say I've ever front to back ran a Lenny album...I feel like he is by all accounts an anomaly especially today where rock music has been estranged by the market & other forms of subgenre in his genre have taken over. I'm sure he doesnt want to keep up with trends. He doesn't have the critical acclaim of D'Angelo, nor the mystique. He's classic but more sanitized, which is weird because that era he draws from was anything but. If he put out something that excelled art wise the legacy would change

Had ❤️ attack reading title.. long live this man

Lenny is one of my favorite artists but in general folks don't praise those who step out the box and essentially he was the only one to step out the box and succeed. I feel like if there were a few Black artists today that were well received and paid homage to Lenny and Rock he would receive a lot more love

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that's real. we all wanna feel appreciated.

love the color palette of this video

Dog whistle

He did not step out the box, he grew up with white people