“This music comes from love and if you can not hear it, I do not know what to tell you,” he added.
Mars – born to a Filipino mother and a half Puerto Rican, half Ashkenazi Jewish father – further explained that musicians learn from artists who have come before them and use it to use these artists as inspiration with athletes using NBA legend Michael Jordan as a blueprint for their athletic careers.
In 2018, author and activist Seren Sensei said in a video clip that Mars ‘is playing its racial ambiguity to cross genres’.
“What Bruno Mars is doing is that he is already taking jobs and that he is just completely recreating, extrapolating it word-for-word,” Sensei said. “He does not create it, he does not improve it, he does not make it better.”
Charlamagne, interviewer, by God urging Mars whether this critique ever comes too close to him.
“It comes with the concert,” Mars said. “There’s a real merit in what people say about black entertainers not getting their flowers.”
Mars tells that he carries his heart on his sleeve and hopes that other artists will get inspiration from his work as he got inspiration from others.
‘I hope later on the road there’s going to be a group that takes what we did and flips it, and freaks it out and puts their own twist on it – because if they do not, what was it then we want to do it ? ‘
CNN’s Deena Zaru contributed to this report.