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Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg gets exposed AGAIN for not knowing the Teddy Riley and Babyface songs
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IllmaticDelta
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Rosenberg is a backpacker, why would you assume that HE of all people would know anything about Teddy Riley or Babyface. That's before he decided that he liked Hip-Hop in the mid 00's.
Sankofa Alwayz
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Sunday dinner music
High school prom music
Cruisin’ on the highway around the city at night music
Chillin on the balcony/porch/stoop on a warm afternoon music
Spring cleaning during rainy weather music
HBCU tailgating with the students and alumni music
R&B music from the Teddy Riley/New Jack era on down to the mid 2000s with some 70’s and early 80’s Soul music thrown in the mix is a whole ass vibe that’s undefeated
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fam, even Justin Timberlake would have handled a better reaction to this battle
Timberlake is a Southern/Deep south white boy. Southern (anglo) white boys have a different ear for music than white people w/o Southern roots lol
Sankofa Alwayz
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Plus JT is from Memphis, right up there with New Orleans for being the birthplace of AADOS music. It’s the same way Elvis Presley (also from The M) had a good ear for music because he grew up around Black folks and would later bite our styles and ingredients in a manner were Cacs continually praise him as the so-called “King of Rock n Roll”
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Knowing who the artists are and actually listening to them are two different things. Me personally, I could care less about this Teddy/Babyface shyt and don't get the hype/excitement. Yes I know who they are. I'm a millennial who loves R&B, but have my short list of favorites. Even a lot of black women today ain't even fukking with R&B like they used to. People under the age of 31-32 today are mostly all about trap. Go to any college campus, Uber pool, bus, train in the city and all these girls/kids/adults under 32 are listening to is this new dumb rap shyt[/QUOTE]
Your an old nikka who has no idea what your talking about, lmao young bytches love RNB"
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Gen Z especially bytches listen to all the New RNB... who does this nikka think Summer Walker fanbase is lmao??A good chunk but not all of us, or arguably even most of us breh
In addition to myself, damn near most fellow millennials I went to high school with (Class of 2010) were fukking with 90’s R&B and New Jack Swing and urban gospel music as much as we did R&B from the 2Ks and 2010 itself.
Gen Z you have a bigger point. Which is funny considering that in contrast to high school, when I finally went to a full-time university in 2016, I’d wager that 85% of the student body were Gen Zers and my whole time there, I’ve heard mainly Trap music and Rap music. Rarely any R&B pre-2015. The only time I’d ever hear them play some old school R&B is at certain functions and this is at an HBCU mind you. Now I’ll also say this, my alma mater do be getting it the fukk in whenever they play some old shyt especially Frankie Beverly, New Edition, Maze, Kid n Play, Bell Biv Devoe, Faith Evans, MJ, etc., especially at on-campus BBQs, student election campaign parties, and tailgates; and these are the same Gen Zers too. So they legit do be surprising me at times
when has Curtis Mayfield NOT been R&B?
True. I though he was more soul and funk. In my mind R&B was more what Mary J Blige does. And in modern times what Beyonce does. I just see Curtis different. But if he is Rhythm and Blues he is. Admittedly I don't know thistory of R&B.
Trust me, once they get older their ears are gonna change
It was the same with my generation, we was hip hop heads, then we got older, and started loving the shyt our parents played, and what girls was loving at the time
I already know it's gonna happen, that is gonna be the era when the music changes for the better. Music always goes in cycles based on the environment. Young people loved the three six mafia type shyt, and lil kim hoe shyt, because they had access to drugs, and porn, way more then we did. They think it makes them adult like, but once they hit 30 yrs old, they are gonne be burnt out. It may be earlier because I'm seeing chicks in their early 20s complaining about men in a different way then before. That means shyt is gonna change, because a lot of guys now cater to women like crazy. But there are gonna be some who dont care because they realize their the prize. No more "your special girl" rap shyt
Money, and credit, is about to be scarce, so fronting ain't gonna be so easy anymore. That means the music is gonna be more real, or the fans are gonna want to hear more real stuff.
Sankofa Alwayz
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Shiiiieeetttt not even just Summer either. SZA got a big following, Jhené Aiko too (I love her shyt, especially her recent album), HER (I’ve been a devoted follower of hers since her Something To Prove days; and that’s bae
), Ella Mai still got a massive following, Solange Knowles (the maturity of her music rivals that of HER’s), and of course homegirl Ari Lennox done blew the fukk up with Shea Butter Baby. And of course, Beyoncé has constantly updated her music to make her relevant across multiple generations from Gen X to us Millennials and now to older Gen Zers. Then after them, you got Kehlani, Snoh Aalegra, BOSCO, Sinead Harnett, etc.
Those are the artists I’ve heard being played by countless Gen Z and fellow Millennial Black women, especially from my sister (who’s a 22 year old Gen Zer herself). And that’s just female R&B artists too. Don’t even get me started on dudes like Miguel, The Weeknd, Jacquees, SiR, Khalid, Daniel Caesar, etc. Hell, many of them regard Usher as a living R&B legend (and they ain’t wrong)
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Plus JT is from Memphis, right up there with New Orleans for being the birthplace of AADOS music. It’s the same way Elvis Presley (also from The M) had a good ear for music because he grew up around Black folks and would later bite our styles and ingredients in a manner were Cacs continually praise him as the so-called “King of Rock n Roll”
facts
Elvis used to hang out on Beale Street in Memphis to learn from the REAL masters
Sankofa Alwayz
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That’s literally where I’m at personally right now. I’m 27 and I’ve been feeling the stuff my mom grew up on more and more in addition to stuff from my generation that are actually of excellent quality in terms of subject matter as well as production. Funny thing with me is that I may have had a better transition than most at this stage since I actually grew up willingly being more into R&B, Neo Soul, Quiet Storm, and Urban Gospel rather than Hip Hop. Tbh, other than a few artists, I never really cared much for Rap music growing up. I kinda hated it lol. It wasn’t until 2011 that I actually started to become a Hip Hop head like that and that 2009 to 2013 period was when I was on some serious backpacker “real Hip Hop” shyt lmao 
Not that I regret it tho, it’s because of that “real Hip Hop” phase that I got hip to Joey Bada$$/Capital Steez/Pro Era, A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar and the rest of Black Hippy, Lupe Fiasco, Clear Soul Forces, Children of the Night/World’s Fair, Underachievers, Odd Future, Danny Brown, etc. As a matter of fact, it was during this time that I got hip to older Hip Hop shyt such as Wu-Tang Clan, all of NaS’ 90’s shyt, dived deeper into 2Pac’s catalogue, Gang Starr, etc.