Eric Bellinger Shares the Secret to Writing Grammy-Worthy Songs 

A Tyes jr. me too. ☺️✨✨✨✨🌟

Foreal man

tochiRTA No, it's because the people that run urban radio and the labels are hip hop people now instead of RnB people like it was in the 90s. The late 90s and 2000s is when hip hop blew up, so hip hop people started getting the positions of power jobs at labels and radio. So they are going to look for a more hip hop sound and rap has always been more explicit and vulgar in the lyrics. When black artists make relatively clean songs they win bigger, Drake's biggest track last year was Hold On We Going Home. Jason Durelo had a bunch of hits that did better than Chris Brown's records and Durelo was talking about big butts and sex like everybody else he just did it in a clean way and his records went bigger. My point is black people are throwing away traditional RnB to make "ratchet" music. Ratchet music is limiting the audiences. All this talk about culture appropriation lately is really black artists feeling like they're losing now in the overall music scene and it's because they are losing. They are losing because of choosing to go ratchet. Usher was on The Voice man. Mainstream American TV. Why the fuck is he making songs about strippers and getting head. Everybody talking all this shit about Iggy but Fancy and Black Window are the least ratchet songs she has put out in her career and they blew up. Iggy cleaned her style up and that's why she blew up.

+Debonair73 agree

Well put

Debonair73 how times have changed lol

Debonair73 I couldn't agree with you more!!! These new artist producers and or otherwise don't have a clue.... 10 years from now no I don't even give it 10 years 5 years from now no one will even care about what they call music. We are living in the time of disposable music more like disposable sound....

+Musa Rico cant find that song...

+MizzHotBlaze Official Tory Lanez FT Eric Ballinger

well youre starting out wrong because youre supposed to just write from your heart honestly rather than premeditating a grammy

@@xtd3124 lol just wondering, what did you click on the video for then?

Innova X Arts hear an artist. Study them. Know their influences, then write something for them . Simple

Absolutely nothing

Innova X Arts lol for real

Leah Renee Underwood I see you on a lot of his song comments you must love him as much as I do😂

Why should people write songs?

ADAJ3 ppl should write songs to make good music… not with the goal to win any awards… that'll come if it may

ADAJ3 A song is like a work of art. As an artist you create this piece with no intention of receiving an award. Look at the Roots for example. They've won 3 grammy's 2 of which are collabs with John Legend. You think the roots and john legend were sitting in the studio and saying "hey lets' try to make a grammy contending album?" Fuck no.

X-RA3 likely not, but I'm sure they like the recognition

If you're referring to him you're wrong

It's Sunday bro, nobody gives a fuck

Of course you will. Not every song has to have substance to it

@@Deenique16 I think it does to be remembered

very true. & the "baby baby i love you" songs from the 1960s - 1990s STILL resonate today. i'm sure a quick hit is cool $-wise but $ + standing the test of time requires having meaningful lyrics (as you said). substance matters.

Chris writes alot for himself he also writes for riri, too, back in the days, the usher writes a lot too, but most big artists take a hit r 2 from others, and nobody turns down hit song

Damn that's cold as hell. No need to crush a dude like that

S Brooks It's not cold. It's just my opinion. He can't do anything differently from Chris Brown and them.

true true he has not really been that successful as a solo artist I can't get into his original stuff I like his cover

jamaal anderson He can't sing.

Lol I can't argue with that I just know I like a unique artist whose voice stands out Amy Winehouse, Anita baker etc