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

[Samori Toure]

Exactly. Its just nostalgia for most of these "RnB/Hip Hop has died" people, talmbout "theres too much sex on RnB radio in 2017" :kblackscust:Like R. Kelly wasn't pissin on 15 year olds in the 90s, or like Prince wasn't all "sexually open" in the 80s or like Donna Summer wasn't feigning orgasms over a beat in the 70s

Donna Summers was Disco and Funk. Her and Rick James were never truly R&B; they may have did some R&B; but their bones were not made in R&B. Disco eventually melted into greater Pop music and House music.

R. Kelly was/is good, but IMO Ronald Isley was a much better version of that type of R&B singer. In fact IMO most of the R&B singers in the 90's were kind of doing knock off versions of the 60's, 70's and 80's singers that they grew up listening to. So guys like Levert, R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige etc., were actually just moderning versions of other great artists. R. Kelly and Levert were good though.

If any of you want to hear truly great R&B music then you have to go back to the 60's, 70's and 80's. That music was unreal and just straight up ridiculously good.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Donna Summers was Disco and Funk. Her and Rick James were never truly R&B; they may have did some R&B; but their bones were not made in R&B. Disco eventually melted into greater Pop music and House music.

R. Kelly was/is good, but IMO Ronald Isley was a much better version of that type of R&B singer. In fact IMO most of the R&B singers in the 90's were kind of doing knock off versions of the 60's, 70's and 80's singers that they grew up listening to. So guys like Levert, R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige etc., were actually just moderning versions of other great artists. R. Kelly and Levert were good though.

If any of you want to hear truly great R&B music then you have to go back to the 60's, 70's and 80's. That music was unreal and just straight up ridiculously good.

Dap + rep


But what the hell!!!

Mary J was the shyt too!!!!

 

[Samori Toure]

Dap + rep


But what the hell!!!

Mary J was the shyt too!!!!

Mary J. was alright, but even you have to admit that she and Keith Sweat were a huge drop off from singers that were making hits in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

 

[James Gordon]

Its because black folk dont own RnB so therefore cant control its rise nor fall

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Mary J. was alright, but even you have to admit that she and Keith Sweat were a huge drop off from singers that were making hits in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

I mean shoot, there was some classic stuff being dropped in the 60's and 70's but mary J's first 2 albums were classic in their own right.

She made music that even our parents could vibe too. (I'm assuming you're an 80s baby like me)

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Young kids don't like R{&B they want heavy beat dancing music or techno now.
Older cats aren't really buying cds and going to concerts heavy, so that 80s-2000s R&B acts don't have the heavy touring base to depend on like the pre-80s acts.
Its fukked up, on top of that, only play for R&B is white artists on black and white owned "black" stations, so you have black singers and crooners literally locked out the mainstream.

Not necessarily true

 

[CrimsonTider]

R&B made a resurgence in 2016 so ALOT of post in this thread are wrong and just nostalgia soaked bad takes

 

[David_TheMan]

Not necessarily true

You think?

 

[ultraflexed]

pretty good article, nothing but facts



8 Reasons Why R&B Has Died in the Black Community - Atlanta Black Star

here's the list


2. Too Much Focus on Physical Attributes, Not Enough on Talent


5. Artists Too Limited

7. R&B and Hip-Hop Have Coalesced Into a Single Genre

Actually I narrowed it down to just these

 

[ultraflexed]

R&B made a resurgence in 2016

No........it hasnt


2017 has hope

 

[Easy-E]

I would add Arts and Music Are Being underfunded/cut in schools and kids don't learn Music/Theory.
Black music in america originated in the Church as far a musicians and singers. not really like that anymore.

This is the number one reason, IMO.

 

[Makavalli]

The rapper ft on the R&B song killed it. Fabolous and all em nikkas hoppin on then the r&b dude said imma save my feature money and become an r&b thug

 

[CrimsonTider]

No........it hasnt


2017 has hope

Solange
Beyonce
Frank Ocean
the Weekend
Trap Soul (carry over from the end of '15)
Anderson Paak
PnD
Maxwell
DVSN
Rihanna

I know Im missing some but these were all released to much acclaim and fanfare.

I didnt say it was the music you liked or whatever but no one can deny that R&B made some headway back into the mainstream this year

 

[The God Poster]

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

Two were by the same person tho

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Solange
Beyonce
Frank Ocean
the Weekend
Trap Soul (carry over from the end of '15)
Anderson Paak
PnD
Maxwell
DVSN
Rihanna

I know Im missing some but these were all released to much acclaim and fanfare.

I didnt say it was the music you liked or whatever but no one can deny that R&B made some headway back into the mainstream this year

I said similar shyt but they not trying to hear it.

RnB is still doing ok it's just not shyt these oldass nikkas wanna hear anymore