All you youngsters, let it be known that R&B died on YOUR watch

[jadillac]

People who grew up in previous decades(even up thru the early-mid 00's), supported great R&B/Soul music even thru the changes from groups to more solo acts....from live instruments to all synth based New Jack swing stuff and back around again to a mixture....etc.

You will not hear R&B on urban radio even from a current great like an R. Kelly, anymore.

It's dead now. Even if ur in ur mid-late 20's or whatever you have to listen to ur parents(age 45+) R&B station to hear any of it.

 

[twan83]

I miss it where u know a r&b song and i mean a good one would be on and be played often

r&b in 90's and 80's was so DOMINANT lyrics so powerful or some songs just catchy and chilled out to listen too

i remember where u could here


or some


how bout


this


this


this

 

[Silkk]

At The Top Its Just Breezy nikka

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

breh, you really think these young nikkas care that much about R&B?

it's not their fault everybody likes Trey & Chris and they want to rap and sometimes sing... in a feeble attempt to do like R Kelly.

Lloyd & Miguel holding it down for traditional R&B.

 

[twan83]

this shyt was the JAM




this shyt in acapella was FLAWLESS


this one was always on the radio


this nikka had them girls dropping panties

 

[TJ Hend]

its sad.. music will suffer because black people dont have a creative outlet. Black people need a genre where they can compose and put in their music creativity

rap music isnt enough

R&B began to suck when it started to become like rap, lol @ yall saying "12 Play" is the goat R&B cd, 12 Play was the beginning of the end

 

[twan83]

breh, you really think these young nikkas care that much about R&B?

it's not their fault everybody likes Trey & Chris and they want to rap and sometimes sing... in a feeble attempt to do like R Kelly.

Lloyd & Miguel holding it down for traditional R&B.

c/s

miguel killing shyt right now and lloyd stay UNDERRATED

 

[jadillac]

its sad.. music will suffer because black people dont have a creative outlet. Black people need a genre where they can compose and put in their music creativity

rap music isnt enough

R&B began to suck when it started to become like rap, lol @ yall saying "12 Play" is the goat R&B cd, 12 Play was the beginning of the end

Nah, while I dont agree that 12 Play is the GOAt r&B album, or even anywhere close to it...from start to end it might not even be in my top 3 R. Kelly albums, BUT it's not the beginning of the end.

But R. Kelly did contribute to the beginning of the end with TP2.....as great as that album was, it started the whole R&B thug-sing-talk/rap movement, which everyone else copied afterwards.

And black people DO have creative outlets, maybe now more than ever with the ease of making music on computers......they just have no role models anymore. When every song is made using 1 or 2 notes on a keyboard or arpegiattors, it doesnt foster or encourage great muscianship like we used to have.

And the younger gens brains have been trained to find anything slow, or without a super reptitive chorus to be "boring".

Dont get me wrong, I like & can appreciate even ignorant ass rap like 2Chainz, it's not what I'm limited to.

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

lloyd, miguel, and jeremiah are killin shyt but aren't receiving the acclaim they should...low key, frank ocean had some fire too

chris brown and trey are the highest sellers cause they been puttin in work for years

 

[SheWasFly]

I live in or around the greater NY area and I still hear Maxwell on the radio.. R&B to me.

 

[Malta]

There's really no difference between mainstream rap and R&B now, the "collabo" really killed R&B something serious.

 

[Malta]

I live in or around the greater NY area and I still hear Maxwell on the radio.. R&B to me.

Which stations? Cause I never hear Maxwell, they playing him on La Mega se Pega or something

 

[Buckeye Fever]

This is why I fukks wit neo-soul artists. Sure, they might not wear deodorant, but at least I can vibe to their music

 

[Sulu]

channel orange is the album of the year. in any genre

 

[Sinnerman]

its sad.. music will suffer because black people dont have a creative outlet. Black people need a genre where they can compose and put in their music creativity

rap music isnt enough

R&B began to suck when it started to become like rap, lol @ yall saying "12 Play" is the goat R&B cd, 12 Play was the beginning of the end

who said 12 play was the GOAT R&B album on here?