Deborah Cox still got it

[FLORIDA BOI]

Exquisite

 

[newworldafro]

She's a Canuck?? Tamia too???

 

[Geek Nasty]

Yea she had her debut in 98 and that was near the end of the songstress era, 99 and was the start of fast singing uptempo ish that missy elliot, dark child and other producers ushered in.

My take is the hip hop producers started having big money success and taking over the black music scene. After that shyt started getting overproduced. Now you don't need to pay big money for Whitney or Mariah to lay down the vocals. Get a stripper with a decent voice then make up the difference with the soundboard.

If you've ever heard Lose Myself by Lauryn Hill off the Surf's Up soundtrack, classic case of overproduction

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Yea she had her debut in 98 and that was near the end of the songstress era, 99 and was the start of fast singing uptempo ish that missy elliot, dark child and other producers ushered in.

I think this song was one of the biggest ones to help usher in this sing rap era. It doesn't get the props it deserves but I think it's one of the 5 songs that changed R&B for worse of course lol

 

[director_of_bands]

she just premiered the video for this wattba