Remember when a R&B singers vocal accapella skills used to actually matter?

[TEH]

Nah, there's tons of talk sexy not singing nikkas in Neosoul.
Maybe that was the intent, but the reality is, where's the voices?

And not for nothing, the industry itself has largely turned it's back on big BLACK voices. The production cycle right now isn't conducive to these talents.

I’m thinking like Jill Scott, Musiq, Badu, Deangelo, Anthony Hamilton etc

 

[TEH]

bars need hip-hop/rap content

neo-soul artist spilling gangster philosophy¿

ha

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No

bars don’t need that

this is another debate

is the only valid rap street rap?

 

[010101]

No

bars don’t need that

this is another debate

is the only valid rap street rap?

you right

when i say bars i'm referring to some slick type shyte

money hoes cars clothes the most appealing mantra

ha

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[daboywonder2002]

Nah, there's tons of talk sexy not singing nikkas in Neosoul.
Maybe that was the intent, but the reality is, where's the voices?

And not for nothing, the industry itself has largely turned it's back on big BLACK voices. The production cycle right now isn't conducive to these talents.

It scared white people. They eliminated the strong black voices in r &B

 

[Wild self]

It scared white people. They eliminated the strong black voices in r &B

And pushed this ratchet autotune with bum azz rappers. I blame the rise of strip club culture in the mainstream black media.

 

[010101]

It scared white people. They eliminated the strong black voices in r &B

euro folk spent more money than anyone on the music

they also low-key study that shyte harder than our youth

them wonderbread pop.artist/producers be encyclopedias of r&b knowledge

white folk have no say in what the wave is at the roots of it all

it's all on us they ain't that powerful fam

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[MIKE SPLEAN]

 

[315]

It’s not that New Jack Swing was garbage music (at least the good stuff, Milli Vanilli was able eat in the late ‘80s).

The NJS era produced some classics, but the real problem though is trying to blend R&B and Hip Hop which ends up b*stardizing both genres. That shyt started with NJS and and carried into the ‘90s with Bad Boy, Montell Jordan, Adina Howard, etc..

By the early 2000s, you had rappers like Nelly and Ja Rule “singing” their own hooks and R&B singers like Jagged Edge doing that sing-rapping bullshyt.

This is what R&B was sounding like in the early 2000s:




This shyt ain’t R&B or Hip Hop. It’s some kind of homogenized mishmash. And this shyt pre-dates autotune.

Agreed, this also contributed to the death of black bands. Outside of Toni, Tone, Tony & Mint Condition there almost none poppin in the 90's

 

[Doctor Wily]

boy had to get rid of that gift that keeps giving.

 

[Doctor Wily]

Even below average R&B singers should be able to sing accapella







Btw this cats channel has a ton of accapellas on it --> COOLEST RAREST THINGS

This is a perfect example of someone who has an above average voice but is so overproduced that you wouldnt be able tell how she really sounds (her voice stands out in the second verse).

 

[wild100sboy]

i came across this by accident the other day

Those harmonies, my god I listen to this all the time

 

[ThaEruditious]

Would you say TPain killed mainstream RnB?

Pain was his own thing and he was dope.

And he could actually sing. Maybe not on par with most but he had an autotuneless song on his first two albums. If you gonna blame anyone, blame wayne for buying into the gimmick

 

[Giselle]

I said it in that thread last night, most of these new muthafukkas cannot sing.

Yep these punk ass labels just use technology to hide these shyt ass artist voices.

This one in particular they keep trying to push as the next beyonce, but the nba accidentally streamed her mic feed and revealed that she doesn’t really sing live, she lip syncs for the most part and sings under the track with auto tune and pitch correction.

 

[Cheese McNair]

Pain was his own thing and he was dope.

And he could actually sing. Maybe not on par with most but he had an autotuneless song on his first two albums. If you gonna blame anyone, blame wayne for buying into the gimmick

If Pain never used autotune, then Wayne probably never makes Lollipop. Pain used it, even though he can sing, then gives Wayne the co-sign to do it. Wayne makes Prostitute, people fukk with it, then he makes Lollipop.

 

[Thebadguy]