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I was just bumpin 24K Magic and thought about this thread, Bruno Mars is one of the biggest artists out now and he not only makes R&B (along wit black genres like Soul and Funk) but dropped a R&B classic a few months ago so its not completely "dead", you had Pharrell a few years ago wit the biggest hit of the year in Happy that had a R&B feel (it was more so Soul) and John Legend still doin his thing along wit Chris Brown and Ne-Yo but they ain't as successful as they once were.
Thats why nikkas is sayin its dead cause outside of 1 guy (2 when Timberlake decides to make music) no one is doin it real big on the level that R&B used to be on, the mainstream used to be flooded wit nothin but R&B chart toppers puttin out platinum classics but now its a couple guys still doin that a handful who used to be on that level then fell off but still have some moderate success and everyone else is so irrelevant you don't even notice when they flop.
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And I never jumped on that Hip Hop is dead trend but they didn't think it was actually "dead" the way nikkas feel about R&B cause Hip Hop was bigger than ever they were sayin it was dead cause the genre was gettin wack to them becomin watered down and strayin away from the roots so they felt "real" Hip Hop was dead, ironically those same nikkas hated on Snap Dance and Soulja Boy Crankin Dat when that was actually closer to the roots of Hip Hop than what all the "real hip hop artists" were doin cause Hip Hop started out as party music to dance to and have fun which is what Snap Dance was all about and why I fukked wit that too.
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Thats why nikkas is sayin its dead cause outside of 1 guy (2 when Timberlake decides to make music) no one is doin it real big on the level that R&B used to be on, the mainstream used to be flooded wit nothin but R&B chart toppers puttin out platinum classics but now its a couple guys still doin that a handful who used to be on that level then fell off but still have some moderate success and everyone else is so irrelevant you don't even notice when they flop.
Thats one of the reasons Bruno Mars is so successful cause they get that wit him he stay bringin back the sound of classic R&B Soul and Funk nikka even got some New Jack Swing influences on his newest album.Exactly
nikkas ain't trying to look for new shyt. They just wanna turn on a mainstream radio and hear the similarities of classic slow jams they remember from 20 years ago
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What they sayin is R&B more so devolved just cause it changed doesn't make it an evolution it changed for the worse.But that was 20 years ago, get over it. RnB has evolved like it was always going to.. Dude just listed all the black music that was created by us then evolved either into something new or an exstension of the old.
Which is why nikkas are sayin R&B is dead most of the so called "R&B" is hip hop wit a singer on it, that trend didn't start in the 90s cause they still had tons of REAL R&B back then it started in the early 2000s wit Jennifer Lopez doin collabs wit Ja Rule The LOX and LL Cool J and Ciara doin the "Crunk N B" style even Usher did a joint like that wit Lil John (I fukked wit every last one of those songs but it wasn't REAL R&B).People still out here singing love songs and slow jams but thats not whats mainstream.. At least not without a rapper on it. Accept it, the trend started in the 90's. But people are still making dope albums that yall not checking for then you say RnB is dead just like nikkas was saying hip hop was dead 10 years ago
And I never jumped on that Hip Hop is dead trend but they didn't think it was actually "dead" the way nikkas feel about R&B cause Hip Hop was bigger than ever they were sayin it was dead cause the genre was gettin wack to them becomin watered down and strayin away from the roots so they felt "real" Hip Hop was dead, ironically those same nikkas hated on Snap Dance and Soulja Boy Crankin Dat when that was actually closer to the roots of Hip Hop than what all the "real hip hop artists" were doin cause Hip Hop started out as party music to dance to and have fun which is what Snap Dance was all about and why I fukked wit that too.
They don't mind change if what its changin to is good but alot of the music out today just ain't good.People don't seem to like change much I've noticed, despite it being an inevitability in almost everything in life
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