Why is R&B dead in 2014?

Oceanicpuppy

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Modern R&B has been terrible since about 2001-2002, and good stuff like Raheem Devaughn doesn't sell.
There was is some talent tho. 8701 came out that year and it was a hot album and Neo -soul had a little revival around 03-04
Raheem Devaughn is talented but some of his songs are average. If he managed to get some good producers behind him maybe that would change.
A lot of the talented artist songs are not catchy tho. They get those throwaway beats.
 
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Cause the rappers wanna sing and all the singers wanna rap ! Simple as that !
 

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1. No one pays for whole albums anymore
2. Producers need to make money
3. Combining rap and R&B into an indistinct miasma of party songs that promote bullshyttery is the only thing that people will spend money on.

Solution: Ignore the top 20 songs on iTunes, stop buying individual singles from shytty artists, and start buying whole albums from good artists.
 

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IONO, but then again, I don't listen to the radio or own a TV..............:manny:

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