While I somewhat agree with the premise of the thread, I'm really tired of the whole hating on young nikkas thing. Like how many of you are actually that old to be calling 18 or 19 yr olds youngsters? Like, you're in that much of a rush to act "grown"? It's one thing to see a parent telling his kid to shut off that cotdamn jungle music, but for me to be 25 and calling a college freshman a youngster is kinda lame as fukk. Not to mention, I'm assuming a lot of you are in your mid 20's like me, we were still "youngsters" when this trash era of R&B started getting popular and a lot of our peers helped make nikkas like Chris Brown popular. And a lot of our older siblings like that trash too. Don't try and pin it on the "youngsters", we all probably liked some shyt we wouldn't be proud to admit when we were in middle or high school.
All that said, R&B is like every other genre. You can find good artists if you look for them. Frank Ocean, no homo, is imo the only one holding it down on a mainstream level expect for when legends like Maxwell, Sade or :piedpiper: come through and crush the buildings every now and then.