Remember That time When Rick James shyted on Alicia Keys Lol

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

there is nothing masculine about her acceptance speech or how she walked up to the podium

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Rick James Not Much Of An Alicia Keys Fan

Karu F. Daniels of EURweb.com chatted with R&B legend Rick James. Amongst his headline grabbing

comments were those on Alicia Keys. “She calls her album, ‘Songs In A Minor,’ and all of the songs are in E

and D,” he explained. “I don’t think she knows her grammatic skill, personally. I think she’s ‘The Gong Show.’
When she did the Donny Hathaway song in front of millions of people and fu**ed it up, that just goes to show
you right there what’s going on…What about Rachelle Ferrell, or Lalah Hathaway? What about all these

serious bytches that can really sing? Alicia Keys? Because Clive Davis eats the best See’s Candies and

gives the best whatever, and wants to show Whitney [Houston] that she ain’t sh**, yeah, he’s going to put his
effort in Alicia Keys.”

Interviewer: Well, Alicia is playing the piano…

Rick James: “Yeah, in a key of A flat, right? Try playing one of those songs in A flat.”

The album is called “A Minor”! “A Minor, A Flat…we call it A Flat. A Minor -- my ass. Minor is giving her an A-Plus”. Well, she is a minor.

Interviewer: You don’t cut these new kids no slack, huh?

Rick James: “I got a 13 year old girl in Buffalo who will take Alicia Keys eat her up and spit her out like a suppository. I’m not saying her name because she’s underage, number one, and her mother is a friend and won’t let her get in the business because she’s in church


Rick James Not Much Of An Alicia Keys Fan | rnbdirt.com

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Gable Steveson

 

[Rollie Forbes]

The Street Profits

 

[DrexlersFade]

If ya'll seen his documentary you have to see it he the best when it comes to fukkery and I never knew he was beating out the likes of Stevie and Quincy for Grammys.

 

[Killigraphy]

I mean..he's not wrong. That was a stupid name for an album since the double entendre doesn't work...she's not playing any of the songs in A minor....it works one level, which is quaint, but its a meh album. As far as talent goes? He was right as well, so many better singers at the time.

 

[NinoBrown]

H.E.R is better in every way than AK...

 

[Doctor Wily]

Alicia's first 4 albums vs her last four albums is like night & day


She should've never stopped working with Krucial Keys

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Why a lot of music is disposable as fukk these days

They came from an era where you had to have talent
Couldn't get by with just looks and promo cuz your peers wouldn't respect you

 

[King Sun]

Alicia's new cd blows any recent H.E.R project.

 

[Wild self]

He’s right we are not critical enough when it comes to music ... notice the white girls took off right after Alicia got on ... showing that they can make candy R&B from anyone

That "Stop hating, get this money" mentality is why black music is filled with disposable tropes these last 20 years. Too many people with basic RnB ratchet shyt and Strip Club songs killed what made black music special: the unparalleled QUALITY.

 

[Wild self]

While I don't exactly agree with his criticisms, we definitely don't hold these newer artists to higher standards and it definitely has an impact on the longevity of the music.

There's songs back in the 70's and 80's I thought were number one hits, that barely made a blip on billboard when I checked...that run circles around all of the shyt coming out now.

And I'm not trying to sound like a cranky old man on his generational divide shyt, but something changed in the early 2000's that made the quality of music tank. Not sure if it's the homogenation of genres, or the influx of electronic and computer music, or the accessibility of music studios or what.

Now that everyone can make a studio in their fukking bathroom, people don't rehearse shyt anymore, they don't practice. They just lay it down and fix it in post-production.

Even industry plants back in the day had talent...this microwave music industry just like everything that is microwave fukking sucks. I can't stand when artists talk about making a whole song in 15 minutes. That shyt is ass...

Its the strip Club culture and autotune in the mainstream, that destroyed quality control.

 

[Wild self]

Because every made music back then, people laugh at everybody being a rapper, but its a lot of rappers only few can rap

back then everybody could sing great, everybody could play instruments, everybody could dance, black people had soul, the competition was higher.

Today there is no talent in the hood, all the culture has been stripped from the hood, nothing but ignorance

no good music comes from the hood, when that use to be the source, the church is no longer big in black culture, that is where most people learned how to sing and play etc

Blame trap music. Trap beats is basically techno, with heavier drums and bass.

 

[Wild self]

Everyone back then thought she was fire cause she would play a little Fur Elise during shows....she was a novelty, a pseudo-lite brite that

A little 5 year-old could play that...

Everytime she has a feature, they outshine her quickly...."Fire We Make" is a good example, Maxwell was going ham on that track....AK was whispering and straining to keep up...

The most annoying thing about her performances is when she pretends to be hood, "Chea...that's right"....

If Alicia came out in the 60s, she would barely make the opening act at a poetry slam....

Now that you said it, I see why the Apollo Theatre is pushed to the sode these days. The Apollo was quality control for black singers and artists back then.

 

[1thouwow]

H.E.R is better in every way than AK...