bruno mars got arrested for cocaine possession

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/Rising_Hawaii-born_star_Bruno_Mars_arrested_for_cocaine_possession.html

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Bruno Mars, a former Hawaii child entertainer and rising music industry star, was arrested and released on cocaine-related charges in Las Vegas, police said.

Mars, whose real name is Peter Hernandez, was detained in the bathroom of a Hard Rock Hotel Casino by hotel security about 2:00 a.m. Sunday, according to a report in the Las Vegas-Review Journal. Las Vegas police said Hernandez was in possession of 2.6 grams of "white powdery substance" believed to be cocaine. He was booked on cocaine possession charges and released a few hours later on his recognizance.

Mars, 24, is known for singing and for co-writing the hits "Nothin' On You" by B.o.B and "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy. He also co-wrote "Right Round" by Flo Rida. Earlier this month, the record label Elektra announced his tune "Just the Way You Are" was the most downloaded song on iTunes.

He performed a medley of songs on MTV's Video Music Awards earlier this month with B.o.B. and Hayley Williams of Paramore.

He headlined a show at the Hard Rock Saturday night.

Mars, Roosevelt High School graduate, performed in many local venues as a youth, starting as an Elvis impersonator at age 4. As a teenager, he performed as Michael Jackson at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel. Mars moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue his entertainment career.

yay!

keep him vegas, we don't want him!

homie is gonna be on the third episode of snl

kinda depressing tho that not even bruno mars can stay off coke

he seems kind of psyched about getting arrested

thats prob the cocaine imo

when you're at paris hilton/bruno mars levels, you should have someone holding FOR you

if he was detained in a bathroom he probably got caught tootin up

can't front, i cackled malevolently when i read this

can't believe bruno mars killed 29,000 mexicans

http://image.blingee.com/images18/content/output/000/000/000/6f6/675706329_1631528.gif

loooooooool

the smiley doing lines off his forehead A+

omar i love you because "make a blingee of the bruno mars mugshot for that thread i started" was srs on my to-do list today

*~always happy to lend a hand~*

great minds, etc.

all that mugshot is missing is some chesthair and it would be the GOAT

so close

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the smiley doing lines off his forehead A+

― flaccid house (The Reverend), Monday, September 20, 2010 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sometimes life is beautiful

Lilo > coke smiley

feel like a revision leaving only the original pic and the snorting smiley would be pretty pickled

that's pretty dope that he was powdering his nose with david bowie, lilo, and a smiley face imo

posting omar's blingee on a friend's fbook = kind of lol mostly embarrassing way to find out a ton of my friends knew dude before he was famous

: D

i bet he was part of the choom gang

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the sneezingtons

fun fact: bruno mars' high school is less than a mile from obama's high school

Lilo > coke smiley

― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:55 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

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― chilli, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i met a bro that went to obama's hs bro yesterday

lol at

the sneezingtons

― J0rdan S., Monday, September 20, 2010 9:46 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1 too many bros imo

he seems kind of psyched about getting arrested

― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, September 20, 2010 5:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats prob the cocaine imo

― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080)

lol'd @ this

http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/352517/&p=33

ratted out by the bathroom attendant!

http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/20/bruno-mars-arrested-cocaine-bathroom-attendant-hard-rock-hotel/

that's harsh.

i can't believe they'd actually arrest for you that.

Cops say Bruno --aka Peter Hernandez-- "admitted he did a foolish thing and has never used drugs before."

First time user with over 2 grams... lol.

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i am enjoying this saga of bruno mars

On the title of the album, Mars said, "I’m a big fan of doo-wop music. ... That’s what you call your girl, your "doo-wop." ... On this album, I have records that women are going to relate to and men are going to relate to. So doo-wops are for the girls, and hooligans are for the guys."[6] In addition, he told 4Music, "It explains the two sides of me. Doo-wop is a special form of music I grew up on. It's straight to the point, very simple. I have songs like that. ... I have that simple, romantic side of me but I'm also just a young, regular dude and that's like the hooligan side!"[7]

AOTY

lol

what a dickface

he is so cool i relate 2 him

“I can’t believe that’s my past,” Mr. Mars said in an interview before his first solo New York performance, a sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom in late August. “I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/arts/music/06mars.html

lol this guys is the absolute pits, nytimes lickin his ballz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDcVvDB1Ko

what a dickface

― shartopus (J0rdan S.), Sunday, September 26, 2010 1:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0

nothing says "lazy" like an elaborately choreographed music video

http://image.blingee.com/images18/content/output/000/000/000/6f6/675706329_1631528.gif

Heard this song on the radio in the car with friends and everyone cracked up in disbelief. The "have some nice sex" line got called "like something Borat would say."

The sex part comes across really awkwardly. Just doesn't seem lazy enough. Not to mention the P90X.

this is probably the worst song of the year other than maybe david guetta's new single w/ flo rida and nicki minaj

The sex part comes across really awkwardly. Just doesn't seem lazy enough. Not to mention the P90X.

did you not catch that the 2nd verse is full of non-lazy things he's resolving to do the following day

very important piece of information as it pertains to this song that we should be paying close attention to

i'm saying

xxpost thought i had something wrong there... though it did take me three listens before i caught that "tomorrow".

Guy is a dickhead

otm but you're the guy who just listened to his song 3 times :-/

OK Fine, then his career may be at halt for some time. Lady Gaga, Robyn and even David Guetta all have a much more positive influence on current chartpop than Bruno Mars does with his way too compressed long-bassnotes-and-drummer-going-bananas-like-crazy-style, so that is probably just a good thing.

buring in hell
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/01Zn2fO5zP4BG/x610.jpg

This song was on non-stop rotation on the Jawaiian station in Hononlulu about 6 months ago.

These were the other ones that we'd hear 10+ times a day:

Ho'Okoa - Ups & Downs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8l9c280ZU

J Boog - Let's Do It Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZQr0jdUJ5A

I was at a coffeehouse playing top-40 radio yesterday, and every song for a good half-hour or more was written, co-written, or performed by Bruno Mars.

he's the smokey robinson of talentless cokeheads in porkpie hats

this story is so shocking to me, people on coke usually make such great music

In the current Pop landscape of futuristic super villains with drum machines, Bruno Mars is just very bland.

http://image.blingee.com/images18/content/output/000/000/000/6f6/675706329_1631528.gif

yay!
― call all destroyer, Monday, September 20, 2010 10:45 PM (1 year ago)

I'd do anythang for ya
I'd carry a gram for ya
Put it straight up my nose for ya

Sad. His Sesame Street performance gets heavy rotation in my house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uSn9zXlTw

i felt actually kind of pissed at myself today to realize that i was telling "it will rain" grow on me

he seems kind of psyched about getting arrested

― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, September 20, 2010 6:51 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats prob the cocaine imo

― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080), Monday, September 20, 2010 6:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this just cracked me up again

Wait, did he get arrested again? Go to jail? I'm confused.

i think in 'lazy song' he's saying he's waking up late to p90x, like, the infomercials that are on in that time between mid-morning and mid-afternoon that lazy people wake up.

i kind of like his stupid songs

Bruno Mars clears up Vegas cocaine possession case

2 grams of coke, didn't show for the hearing = $2000 and community service
This is totally common

New Bruno album is 90% amazing

bowie and lilo did their best work on coke too

yeah i revived another Bruno thread already but totally fuck w/ this album

Cant even bring myself to try

other than the fact that the 2 best-sounding songs are about gold diggin' womens the album is pretty refreshingly devoid of the kind of missteps that generally put people off bruno mars

It's only 35 minutes, I played it twice today

I quite like the new single, it sounds very Police inspired. Not sure I can ever forgive him for The Lazy Song though.

yeah this album is actually quite strong. the only track i don't like is "gorilla" b/c the image of bruno mars doing it like a gorilla is slightly repulsive to me but hooray for the other tracks

if i don't fux with the single is there any chance i'll like this?

sure, nothing else on the album is like "locked out of heaven" at all

"treasure" is really good although it doesn't sound like a radio hit. his voice still sounds like someone trying to impress judges on "american idol" which kinda ruins it for me, but there's shockingly good moments on this album. i wish the chorus of "locked out of heaven" was more rewarding. the verses are great though.

i really really love the bridge of locked out of heaven because, like, for a Police rip to suddenly do Stewart Copeland quarter-notes on the bell of the ride cymbal is like a Weird Al-level attention to detail.

i also hear The Romantics' "Talking in your sleep"

locked outta heaven is incredible.

i know right

h8 him for singing "your sex takes me to paradise" in a Sting voice

for 8 hours at a time

like the song, hate the voice

i tried! i just, i can't. his voice annoys me so much

crut otm

I'm in to the video too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fA-gBCkj0

i didn't know i needed a police-meets-anthemic-pop-house-breakdowns hybrid in my life but here we are

jesus, not feeling that

always cracks me up when dudes need the #1 song in the country spoonfed to them via ilm

why? it's not that odd at all, really.

3 year old daughter loves "locked out of heaven". hmmm. they're playing it at least three times an hour on the radio here.

always had a soft spot for bruno, some of this is v immaculately completed paint by numbers but i'm more fond of "show me" & "locked out of heaven". shades of fellow behatted hate object jamiroquai on "treasure", feels appropriate. he'd be suited to a cover of "too young to die"

if you don't listen to the radio, this becomes harder to hear

it's on the Internet too

lol @ "Gorilla" having a cocaine reference

explain this "internet" to me

The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email, music videos, and photographs of pottery.

pottery, eh? i'll check it out.

jesus, not feeling that

also like "heaven", but isn't it actually a rip of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYIGy1dyd8

(itself arguably a police rip admittedly)

always cracks me up when dudes need the #1 song in the country spoonfed to them via ilm

yeah, but i don't give a flying fuck about popular music

http://i.imgur.com/KPlLh.jpg

got a rollei on my wrist

you used to care, strongo! i swear that you did!

yeah but i'm old and bitter now.

(mostly i just have no time. i wish i had time.)

perhaps it shouldn't be hard to find time to hear the no. 1 song in the country, but you'd be surprised.

it's hard to WANT to find time to hear the no. 1 song in the country

http://i.imgur.com/BLx0V.gif

forks whats no. 1 in yr heart?

i don't really gaf if anyone sets aside the 4 minutes a month it would take to keep up with such things, i just think it's funny when three posts on an ilm thread are the magic motivator that suddenly makes it a pressing concern

currently Fiona Apple's Hot Knife is no 1 in my heart (thanks maura)
given the tremendous number of hours die hards on ilx spend here, it doesn't seem odd to me that this is where I get the nudge to try something new... that's ilx's purpose!

teach us how to live, some dude

and since this thread has magic powers and everybody (including those of you like me who thought there was no reason to ever listen to a fiona apple song again) should try it, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjo-H4FQw4

(btw, i prefer to believe the lyrics are "if i'm butter than he's a hot knife / he makes my heart into cinnamon toast")

as if i'm a big enough clown to become aware of something through this website - nice try but i'll be turning my radio on now thank you very much

hot knife is one of 2 songs i actually like on that album

it's one of the 2 songs i can remember on that album

lol otm

"Criminal" is a jam but idg Fiona Apple

Bruno turds. peace

what the hell is this fiona appla bullshit

Lay off the coke,man

if you don't want your fav record hated on maybe don't bring it up out of the blue in an unrelated thread fyi

lol at u taking me serious and missing the thread ref

i didn't really understand the coke post but i assume your intention wasn't to turn the thread into a fiona apple hatefest either way

i'm playing the long game

so is Barack Obama.

i really like "when i was your man"

got a "someone like you 2K13" vibe off it

i should check out this album

"if i knew" is amazingly great

http://media.tumblr.com/aba1bad07d01eadd2848cd06bcc5a654/tumblr_inline_ms4kokuSa51qz4rgp.jpg

lol.

he was probably one of the few tolerable parts of the show last night even tho he sang "gorilla"

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nfl-reportedly-picks-bruno-mars-perform-super-bowl-183507191--nfl.html

lol. does he have enough recognizable songs to fill up a set?

on second thought i guess if justin timberlake can perform at the vmas for like an hour straight anything is possible

I saw Bruno Mars live a few weeks ago and he was great. I can't hate.

yeah he's a good fit, he could do soul/mj covers and it would be fine

you only need a handful of recognizable tracks really

The Stones only did 3 songs, and most of the others do 4.

yeah, he has five #1s, he could a medley of shortened versions of all them and easily fill the 15 minute slot.

Plus bust out another cameo a la Sting, or one of the songs someone else had a hit with.

I hope his halftime show features actual gorillas

oh god i am really scared that "The Lazy Song" video is going to be recreated in the Super Bowl halftime show now

I may loathe his voice more than any living creature's, more than I loathe Alicia Keys' these days. Ubiquity's a bitch.

i'm more pro-Bruno than anti-Bruno now, Unorthodox Jukebox won me over big time

hope stays away from that song altogether xxp

hope *he

Super Bowl halftime show, huh?

Anecdotal evidence has it that people were largely impressed. He's no one I listen to on purpose, but when I saw him last year, it was basically exactly like the halftime show, but for 90 minutes or whatever. He and his band are really good on stage. Why were the Chili Peppers there at all?

so people too old or jaded to care who bruno mars is would find someone with name recognition

He's got the James Brown moves down.

And the Police style song

my mom had never heard of him and is now a fan

he drummed!

He was good on the drums. I still like nothing about his music but I came away very very impressed by him as a performer.

He had an unfathomable degree of perfection to his performance while still managing to seem loose.

i loved the drum solo opening

also his drummer is his brother iirc

Yeah that was all pretty slick. No surprise new tour dates got announced right after that, no better ad for it.

he's had years of practice tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS9jCtO0qyA

I thought the aging, shirtless chili peppers jumping out and doing give-it-away was a hilarious art joke though.

It was like having a beautiful cake and then having a comically ugly stripper jump out of it.

that was really the best song they could have done though

all of the 40/50 year old women I was watching with greatly appreciated shirtless RHCP

lol, the 35-year-old women I was with were I guess not at that stage of their lives yet, b/c they kept saying "they really need to wear shirts"

i was thinking about how anthony keidis' tattoos were some of the first tattoos i remember actually fixating on and comprehending as an adolescent and there they are 25 years later

xp: Orly? I missed the game, but here are a couple comments that turned up in my facebook feed via a couple of 35-ish friends:

Anthony Keidis. I so would. Then, now, and always.

I still have the hots for Anthony Kiedis...even in a pair of leggings I would probably wear.

the 50 year woman I was with was not impressed

50 year old

But yes Bruno is a great live performer (I'm just not wowed by his songs).

Didn't know he played drums. Dug that. Dug most of his set, actually. But ugh, fuck the fucking RHCPs and their awful, fundamentally unfunky drummer.

Actually, "unfunky" is too kind. He's negative-funky.

I was surprised that I did recognize a couple of BM's tunes from hearing out there in the ether, he's def a good performer/entertainer but an accurate James Brown impression isn't exactly artistic greatness, but he was like fine.

The switch over to RHCP was just weird. I am happy to report my social media feeds erupted into a bunch of Fishbone jokes and it continued when I went over to my local p-word bar afterward.

pachinko?

I wish

I'm still struggling to rectify George Clinton's interest in/affiliation with RHCP in the early 90s.

weird that he had no female dancers/performers at all (?)

also i thought it was cool that his band was all men of color.

xp: mid-80s?

seems like a rare case of someone's profile being raised by the Super Bowl rather than an already on-top or slightly-(or massively)-over-the-hill artist performing.

xp at any point in their career, really

Clinton produced their second record. Andy Gill (?!) produced their first. It's all a rich tapestry.

I know I'm a big music nerd etc etc but I don't really understand how you can have TEN top 5 songs within a 3 year period (with seven as lead artist) and still have ppl going "who is that"

also the first three RHCP albums are still great

Is Bruno really as diminuative as Prince? (5'2"?)

A friend mentioned that she'd seen Bruno and Bieber in the same room and Bieber towered over him, even though both their hairs were similarly pumped up to gain a couple inches.

hmm... maybe?

http://media.tumblr.com/aba1bad07d01eadd2848cd06bcc5a654/tumblr_inline_ms4kokuSa51qz4rgp.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, August 26, 2013 10:04 AM (5 months ago)

I know I'm a big music nerd etc etc but I don't really understand how you can have TEN top 5 songs within a 3 year period (with seven as lead artist) and still have ppl going "who is that"

― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, February 3, 2014 10:41 AM (2 minutes ago)

bonny bear?

apparently he's the same height as janelle monae
http://cdn.necolebitchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Janelle-Monae-and-Bruno-Mars.jpg

google says 5'5"

monae is 5'0" and wearing heels (and further from the camera) in that pic

He was pretty good hosting Saturday Night Live awhile back. Some folks who never listen to pop hits radio or don't notice such songs elsewhere I think discovered him there.

RIDING GIANTESS

I know I'm a big music nerd etc etc but I don't really understand how you can have TEN top 5 songs within a 3 year period (with seven as lead artist) and still have ppl going "who is that"

pretty sure a large chunk of the Super Bowl audience has not kept in touch with the Top 40 for at least twenty years

it's so easy not to know big hits, just listen to only your ipod or sports talk radio in the car and only your own music everywhere else on your phone and don't really go to places that play top 40 over the muzak

OTM, it is pretty easy to not hear a lot of music, I don't even do it on purpose

I had actually heard one Bruno Mars song and didn't know it was him. But yeah, like where the fuck would I wind up hearing top 40 without actively seeking it out?

the gap probably

he made the top 77 last year

lol when rhcp were added it was noted it was specifically for the older generation who might not be familiar w/ bruno mars. i was somewhat surprised when they announced bruno mars but not incredibly so, knew he would do well, dude is a total entertainer. you have to wonder if timberlake's name came up during meetings or if nobody even dared to suggest him.

um
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/justin-timberlake-janet-jackson-wardrobe-malfunction-super-bowl.jpg

can't get one past forx

kinda felt bad for bruno that prince was on new girl immediately afterwards

Andy Gill (?!) produced their first.

my CD copy of Entertainment! has liner notes by Flea which iirc consist mostly in him calling The Edge a piece of shit for never acknowledging the influence of Andy Gill on his guitar playing.

which is absurd cuz edge has frequently when asked his guitar influences listed gill, levene, and verlaine. i can remember rolling stone doing some interview w/ him where the writer kept trying to get him to talk about eric clapton and edge politely pointing out he was too young for clapton really and generally tried to copy go4, etc as a kid.

xp: Flea also took a shit in a pizza box and gave it to Andy during the recording sessions.

just wanted to chime in to say that I didn't really know who Bruno Mars was either but he was probably my favorite halftime since Prince himself

But ugh, fuck the fucking RHCPs and their awful, fundamentally unfunky drummer.

[insert whiney post about ghost notes]

OK Fine, then his career may be at halt for some time. Lady Gaga, Robyn and even David Guetta all have a much more positive influence on current chartpop than Bruno Mars does with his way too compressed long-bassnotes-and-drummer-going-bananas-like-crazy-style, so that is probably just a good thing.

positive to you and many others obviously, but I'd prefer hiphop, r'n'b, and I guess Bruno Mars style rhythms

Lol I was quoting rongroe from upthread