R&B and Soul is the secret kryptonite to Hip Hop culture vultures

[ThaRealness]

Man I listened to so much soul I had to fall back

 

[YeahN1ggaImmaLurker!]

talking that actual factual op

 

[YeahN1ggaImmaLurker!]

That's why I wasn't too thrilled with Anderson .Paak's new single. I'm never one to say an artists should stick to one sound but I remember playing Am I Wrong at a jam,
shyt had everybody groovin Especially when those horns come in



Cacs can't replicate that

I love this song from the chords to the horns the baseline even that little sound after he says where I’m gonna b n 5. Jus a feel good record...that’s why they was groovin

 

[Rozay Oro]

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

That's all my mom and dad listened to while I was coming up.

I find myself listening to those r&b/soul songs from my childhood more than rap, nowadays.


Those old joints never get tiring and always get you moving

If I could sing it would be a wrap

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Rozay Oro]

 

[Greenhornet]

 

[mortuus est]

two things:

1. hip hop would often take a cue from the soul forefathers. at one time james brown was a source of heavy influence, then the isley bros, on into the 80s/NJS/etc so on and so forth. but somewhere along the way, popular "hip hop and r&b" started to blend and the lines became blurred, and in some cases, the roles reversed. where's the soul, is this hip hop or ritualistic chanting? that's when i became disconnected, as it had started sounding soulless, lifeless, dead - the cause, self-cannibalism, feeding off itself, due to the intrinsic life force being abandoned (not just sampling, but overall influence).

2. never rocked with people like eminem, big picture wise, because of the fallout, because people like this...



...eventually/inevitably come in and start trying to redefine sh!t. "and that's what makes it hip hop"

ass nikkas.

big picture wise

 

[detroitwalt]

Beautiful thread.

Just last night I came across a page on IG called @thisdayinhiphop page had 89k followers and another page which I assume is ran by the same people called @thisdayinr&b only had like 7k followers. It's clear that r and b is nonblack repellent.

Link me to that rnb page. It's not coming up for me

 

[Stez]

Y'all really digging' like that?

Spoiler

funkmysoul.gr

 

[mbewane]

I personnaly never understood how one could listen to HH and NOT listen to Rnb and/or do some research on jazz, funk, etc...I've already said that I'm a non-US mixed breh that grew up in a different culture, so I didn't have direct access, but growing up listening to Snoop, Wu and them I just had to go digging to see where all that soul was coming from. There's a lot of current day HH that I like but it just doesn't feel the same. And regarding RnB, those years they went hand in hand, I mean OP posted classics but all the hh tracks that had singers (shouts to DR) or vice-versa (Jodeci), just made it feel more complete. Like you get all aspects of the vibe. And then you had movie soundtracks that basically were both worlds colliding

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

yea. you can tell fans and artists who only came up on rap.

and its not just a race thing. theres a lot of black people that fit this description.

and its a shame how our music ended up. both rap and r&b. none of this was done by accident.

Man I was in middle school in the mid 90's the perfect age to have that puppy love ...writing notes to girls....going to the skating rink and

you used to go to WOW??

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

These were the building blocks of our parents party days throughout major cities in those times...It’s amazing how until recently black music has been completely independent of what the rest gravitated to. Keith Sweat is like a musical hero to so many black households yet whitey would be completely out of their element when it comes to him....cool I don’t know much Alan Jackson. The problem becomes the fact that rap & soul are so intertwined now you have these people involved in the genre with no foundation of the latter

 

[timothy_strickland]

Real talk

Ignorance of r'n'b/soul/funk/disco foundation of hip hop exposes the culture vultures but IT also exposes the CACS.

Any one raised on bon Jovi, Metallica, guns n roses, nirvana, duran duran, garth brooks, Def leppard, pink floyd, Alanis Morrissette etc and Claims to fukk heavy with rap is a cac.. no black Household played Metallica or bon Jovi heavy...

And cacs hate That r'n'b/soul sound/groove and feel because they cant pull IT off with credibility and authenticity. They sound off.

Sinatra might have pulled IT off. Thats IT. Otherwise they sound like rock, metal, punk or pop singers.

Timberlake as good as Barry White, luther vandross, al green, james brown, ron isley sam cooke, kool & the gang, Gaye and Otis Redding? Usher was better than him

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