2004-2007: The Last Great era of mainstream-urban R&B

[Jone2three45]

2004-2007: The Last Great era of mainstream-urban R&B

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We will never witness a good run of R&B music like this for some time.
There's like only 3 male and female R&B singers to chose from besides the usual same old large R&B acts .
Sad breh.

 

[Canada Goose]

Dope R & B music is still being made, just that a lot of them aren't getting mainstream success outside of Trey Songz, Miguel and Frank Ocean.

Even Beyonce's "Dance for you" was kinda under the radar and she had massive crossover success before and that was a dope song IMO.

Melanie Fiona's last album only did 25- 30k first week

Shes a dope singer and makes music that bitter women can like (Mary and Keisha Cole good off of those records) I'm shocked she didn't do at least a 100K.

 

[Jone2three45]

Dope R & B music is still being made, just that a lot of them aren't getting mainstream success outside of Trey Songz, Miguel and Frank Ocean.

Even Beyonce's "Dance for you" was kinda under the radar and she had massive crossover success before and that was a dope song IMO.

Melanie Fiona's last album only did 25- 30k first week

Shes a dope singer and makes music that bitter women can like (Mary and Keisha Cole good off of those records) I'm shocked she didn't do at least a 100K.

There might be dope r&b music being made,
but its by the same ole artists each year.
There is no variety.
Dance for you was a left field from her,
it was decent but not enough.
Miguel and Fiona deserves all the success they get.
The issue is,
there is no growth,
nothing.
Have we peaked at our back entertainment?
Disgusted with current music,
I went back to 70's music.
How did they paint pictures with lyrics and instruments musically?
Why did they fall off?
Something is not right.

 

[Never Broke Again]

you could stretch that to 08-09

put on, independent, TI and wayne becoming superstars, drake starting off and jay-z becoming huge, etc

then this euro pop came through

 

[Jone2three45]

you could stretch that to 08-09

put on, independent, TI and wayne becoming superstars, drake starting off and jay-z becoming huge, etc

then this euro pop came through

I could,
but there weren't a lot of great R&B music coming out during that time.
There's only like three songs that I could think of during that time that I turly enjoyed.
They each came out in 2008.

2008


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[Greenstrings]

There might be dope r&b music being made,
but its by the same ole artists each year.
There is no variety.
Dance for you was a left field from her,
it was decent but not enough.
Miguel and Fiona deserves all the success they get.
The issue is,
there is no growth,
nothing.
Have we peaked at our back entertainment?
Disgusted with current music,
I went back to 70's music.
How did they paint pictures with lyrics and instruments musically?
Why did they fall off?
Something is not right.

If you're seeing the same shyt it's because you're looking in the same places. The charts are contracting. There's less room for what you like. Other avenues are bursting with talent and it's up to you to find it.

Unless you have a realistic idea of what's actually out there (hint: you don't) you're in no position to write it off.

 

[Jone2three45]

If you're seeing the same shyt it's because you're looking in the same places. The charts are contracting. There's less room for what you like. Other avenues are bursting with talent and it's up to you to find it.

Unless you have a realistic idea of what's actually out there (hint: you don't) you're in no position to write it off.

True,
I enjoyed both All I Want is You and Kaleidoscope Dreams.
around 2009 is when I started going underground for R&B.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Its coming back though.

You gotta follow the R&B blogs. Its not mainstream but there is GREAT content out there.

Follow Moomvnt.com or soulbounce.com and pay attention.

That jazz/neo-soul/r&b lane is STILL alive. Don't let dudes like Trey Songz sully your opinion of whats out there. That dude ain't doing it.

 

[Greenstrings]

True,
I enjoyed both All I Want is You and Kaleidoscope Dreams.
around 2009 is when I started going underground for R&B.

2009 is probably a very good jumping on point for this based on what I've listened to. You can point to a fair number of artists that were ahead of the curve but that's probably the point at which the indie aesthetic became a factor.

And I'll second Napoleon, Soulbounce and Moovmnt are very good with this as well as other blogs like,

Earmilk
Blindiforthekids
Rappamelo
bestinnewmusic
potholesinmyblog

and about 20 others that feed into my RSS. All I have to do is scroll down and click download links.