Black Radio & Tell Me Why

[E - Style-Greesy - E]

It can be that they'll play it a few times just because of Mary J. but I don't know... :dunno:

[Bracesup]

It's a powerful song. So it most probably will get played.

But I still don't understand the difference between black radio and white radio. Maybe someday if I get a chance to go to US, I might know what it is.

[Angel Amor]

Black radio plays mostly gangsta thug rap and RnB. They consider Will a pop star not a rap star. I heard it on the radio a few times from the Dj's that Will isn't I guess black enough which that is just stupid. But I heard it time n time again Will is considered white than black. Even on tv ppl make fun of Will calling him an oreo. Basicly there is no definition to being black,white,hispanic or whatever. It just something that got started that there was a definition to being black and some how Will doesn't fit into. That why Will mentions that in his song I Wish I Made That.

[DevilsJim89]

I think "Tell Me Why" will get black radio play because its just something you can't ignore. Too strong of a message and once stations start playing it, black radio will pick up.

How Eminem/Fat Joe is played on black radio and not Will Smith is pathetic.

[Bracesup]

Okay. But I don't think Will would be at loss in anyway if his songs didn't get played in a particular radio category. He is superstar enough to get people notice his songs.

Anyways, Amor, is it like a trademark of yours to post a heart in every post? :kekeke:

[Angel Amor]

like yeah it is :kekeke:

[Jazzy Julie]

i dont think they will play it, not bcoz of the song but just bcoz its Will. I just cant see them going back on what they have said all these years about Will. In their eyes hes still a pop artist.

Plus over here switch has sold a lot and still a lot of big radio stations refuse to play it, now thats subbern. If u play a song that ppl like u get more ratings ,fools!

[Hero1]

will needs to put his first verse of i wish i made that on the end of one of his videos!!

[MaxFly]

And if black radio doesn't play it, BET will sure play it. They play switch a good deal as it is... Not ready to say if it will make 106 and Park, but it will make Bet Start, Bet Now and Rap City...

[foxy]

will needs to put his first verse of i wish i made that on the end of one of his videos!!

:werd:

[FrshPrnceCharmng]

In their eyes hes still a pop artist.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[Jin]

Maybe Will should open his own radio station! :dancingcool:

[bigted]

I found an interesting article on the internet about why there aren't many black heroes, you have to wonder why, since they don't play Will Smith on black radio and he's the biggest role model for blacks today:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/136/136_think_heroes_pf.html

"In the aftermath of the Johnnie Cochran funeral, and in the midst of the Michael Jackson trial, the Barry Bonds home run chase, the Kofi Annan U.N. investigation and other controversies of the past couple years like the Kobe Bryant trial, the Al Sharpton Presidential run, even Jesse’s “Baby’s Mama” drama, I’ve noticed something. Black loyalty runs deep for those considered to be our “heroes.” In a time where it seems like many of our “Black Heroes” are under attack, black support for them has been so large that it has evoked criticism in the public discourse that black people don’t have “values” because of whom they support. This can’t be farther from the truth.

The truth of the matter is that Blacks tend to support those who succeed in spite of adversity, or overcome adversity to succeed. Particularly, when there’s a wicked element involved. The black community has never allowed the other man to choose our heroes and she-roes. In fact, anyone vilified by the mainstream tends to become more beloved, and anyone easily embraced by the mainstream must overcome suspicion to be accepted. And many of them, still aren’t accepted. We tend to root for our heros when they’re up and even when they’re down, and for that – we’re criticized. It’s almost as if we can’t have heroes anymore, if they’re picked by "them". Why is that?

All during the week of Cochran’s funeral, “talk radio” commentators were lashing out, even in death, not understanding what “the big deal” was – some even said Johnnie was nothing without O.J. (a foolish and shortsighted analysis if there ever was one). Michael Jackson has been the butt of the jokes on television, talk radio and the tabloids, but there is no mistaking his impact on music globally, his independence that allows him to control even their most prized music catalogs and his experience in being racially profiled (despite his own psychological attempts to escape his blackness) that make people all over the world, black and white, support him in his darkest hours.

Barry Bonds seems to be the target of the steroids craze that has been in baseball for four decades (since the 1960s) and was ignored when Mark McGwire used them. Now that Bonds is approaching baseball’s most prized record, they want to say home runs mean nothing and he should have an asterisk by his name. Let me tell you something: home runs will always mean something in baseball, and should we put an asterisk by Babe Ruth’s record for playing in a segregated era when, arguably, the nation’s best players were in the Negro Leagues? I’m rooting, like hell, that Bonds breaks the record – I don’t give a s**t what they say. Steroids don’t make you hit the ball better, which was why baseball never banned them.

Kobe was the league’s biggest hero (until he started trippin’ with Shaq) at the time he caught his case. Everybody knew what that was (and still is) about. We saw it with Mike Tyson. And we rooted Kobe all the way through it. The same with Kofi Annan, the world’s foremost diplomat as head of the U.N.—when they tied to tie him to scandal’s in the U.N.’s Iraqi’s “Food for Oil” program, but nobody’s saying anything about Bush and Cheney’s “War for Oil” engagement, or Halliburton’s “Reconstruction” contract. Still, we rooted Annan through it.

America can’t tell black America who its heroes should be, though they try like hell to create ones that have greater allegiance to them than to us. No matter what they do, Clarence Thomas, or Condoleezza Rice, or even Colin Powell (whom I like, but wouldn’t totally trust to represent my interest) will never be fully accepted as our heroes in the same vein as the legendary Thurgood Marshall, the venerable Rosa Parks, or the first black international statesman, Ralph Bunche. And Jackie Robinson, even thirty-plus years after his death, has no equal. A hero is a hero is a hero when you overcome the throes of racism, overcome the odds to beat a system stacked against you, or survive the worst of what America throws at you to succeed.

Though they may not want us to, why can’t Black America have heroes? Even if they aren’t theirs – which is probably the reason they become ours."