Ameriie on the Breakfast Club

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Its funny how this stuff gets lost to history.

Beyonce had no real identity at that time. She was making jumpoff/hood-rat songs at the time with destiny's child and Ameriie was making songs that Beyonce would come to be known for. Beyonce just had the stronger team, but Ameriie was definitely the "IT"

Hood rat songs aint an identity now:comeon:

Those songs are the reason she could transistion into doing records with that Amerie sound....Amerie wouldnt have blown up because she tried to bypass the "hoodrats",and that just dont work in female rnb:sas1:
 

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Wait, so what exactly did Beyonce jack? Are we talking about the sound??? Like crazy in love?
Yeah.

Ameriie and her team were really pushing the cross-over but still "core" sounding female R&B sound that wasn't too ratchet but had classic elements.

Looking back, not enough people appreciated it but her sound was certainly the definition of that early 2000s R&B sound.

Beyonce sharked her whole live-instrumentation sonics and aesthetic. EVERYONE knew it.

I mean, go look at old articles. They flat out say Beyonce copied her early career from Ameriie more than almost any other artist.
 

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Hood rat songs aint an identity now:comeon:

Those songs are the reason she could transistion into doing records with that Amerie sound....Amerie wouldnt have blown up because she tried to bypass the "hoodrats",and that just dont work in female rnb:sas1:
you acting like faith, mary or keyshia cole or lil mo etc weren't running most of the sonics at that time.
 

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Yeah.

Ameriie and her team were really pushing the cross-over but still "core" sounding female R&B sound that wasn't too ratchet but had classic elements.

Looking back, not enough people appreciated it but her sound was certainly the definition of that early 2000s R&B sound.

Beyonce sharked her whole live-instrumentation sonics and aesthetic. EVERYONE knew it.

I mean, go look at old articles. They flat out say Beyonce copied her early career from Ameriie more than almost any other artist.

Just look at who produced "Crazy In Love"

That should answer that question.
 

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Don't get it twisted. Ameriie is an ACTUAL nerd. Nas is a smart-dumb dude who occasionally reads "a book"

Don't insult her like that.
Nah. Nas is an intelligent cat. He's a street nikka at the core tho so he has a certain amount of ignorance that goes wit that. Especially at the time. I feel they would fit more now than then cause he's more of a mature person at this point.
 
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