8 Reasons Why R&B Has Died In The Black Community

[Ronnie Lott]

To be fair those were more the exception & not the norm

My nikka those were 6 songs I posted off the top of my head There are many more

 

[Ol’Otis]

A lot of ignant blk men and blk women are bitter and butt hurt towards one another and out to romantically commit psychological warfare on some fukkboi #HOH bullshyt or some #UseHim nonsense

sums up thecoli

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Its by design. Music has the potential to be one of black peoples most effective weapons. It has the ability to uplift, motivate, inpire, educate and unify. Even during slavery, music was a way to boost morale and communicate via hidden messages.

The systematic draining of the love and soul out of black music has been by design. We don't own our own outlets. Its not merely an accident or a coincidence. It was done purposely. They don't want us loving each other

Preach

 

[Samori Toure]

Black people also created Country music. These music writers never ever acknowledge that.

What y'all are not noticing is that all music genres are suffering. Look at all the people that complain about how bad Country and Rock and Roll music have become. I really believe that a lot of this goes back to Black musicians not being as good as they used to be, because Country and Rock and Roll artist used to just straight up steal Black music and claim that it was Rock or Country. So all music is only as good as Black music.

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[GunRanger]

Exactly. nikkaz made an entire song that topped the charts talkin about gettin a hard on when freakin on a bytch on the dance floor

And they didn't say dikk once. That's the point. Do you guys not get the difference between entendre and explicit vulgarity?


Vulgarity killed RnB

 

[Ronnie Lott]

And they didn't say dikk once. That's the point. Do you guys not get the difference between entendre and explicit vulgarity?


Vulgarity killed RnB

Are you saying that R Kelly, Jodeci, Intro or any other 90s RnB group or artist didn't use vulgarity?

 

[ridedolo]

Man stop. They were talkin about fukkin even back in the day.

nah its true. chris browns "fukk you back to sleep" is an example. no reason for it not to have been "love you back to sleep" imo.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

nah its true. chris browns "fukk you back to sleep" is an example. no reason for it not to have been "love you back to sleep" imo.

Yall would have a point if 90s RnB artists were saying the same thing

 

[O.T.I.S.]

People just need to get out and look for shyt or actually listen to these RnB stations. Usher just dropped a hit, Maxwell just dropped a dope album, Chris Brown is dropping an album, Tyrese dropped something earlier last year, Jeremih still does it, August Alsina still dropping shyt, etc.. And thats off the top of my head.


People just mad that RnB is evolving just like it was supposed to do over a 20 year span and but one thing that will never change is black people that can sing.

Ill tell you what did disappear was black boy bands

 

[Samori Toure]

black people have lost their soul

I was watching Bill Withers, being put into the rock n roll hall of fame as the only solo act on HBO, and they had John Legend come out to do Use Me

He was souless, so swagless when performing this song, so out of his element, and he's suppose to be on the real "vocalist" of this generation

either he was drugged before performing or he went full cac

Usher also butchered ray charles songs at the white house

before you had to be talent to represent black music, it's not the case, you just have to have skills at recording in a booth

The thing that I have noticed is the lack of creativity in modern artists. A lot of the Black singers used to come out of the Black church and most of them played musical instruments; so they created their own styles. That is where Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Donny Hathaway, etc., came from. They were out of Church choirs.

The other thing that I noticed is that there are no bands anymore. Back in the day bands like the Isley Brothers, Earth Wind and Fire, Rufus, Ohio Players, etc., created most of the great music.

 

[frush11]

Terrible, click-bait, fear mongering article. Authors chatting shyt. Beyonce, Drake, Frank Ocean, Breezy, Usher, Weeknd, Bryson Tiller, Miguel, Jeremih, Anderson. Paak move units and are highly influential.

Meh on all.

 

[Blessings]

subs for later

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

1. Title should be "Mainstream R&B....."

2. There have alsways been white R&B artists

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Meh on all.

That's your opinion though. These artists are very popular

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

stop with this idea that there wasn't some major simpage going on in the 90s and 80s