LOL, Future did not kill off traditional R&B. You can't talk down on simping on one hand and then talk about how a rapper like Future killed traditional R&B on the other. Traditional R&B died on a mainstream level because once the Ne-Yo's, Dreams & Tricky Stewarts were no longer the go to writers and producers, what exactly was the genre left with? No longer was there a Babyface, Darryl Simmons, Missy Elliott & Timbaland, Jermaine Dupri, Brian Michael Cox, The Clutch, Sean Garrett, R. Kelly, etc. coming up.