Are we ready to admit that R&B isn't a real genre of music?

[DonB90]

Sounds Like a cac talking point before trying to relabel and claim ownership.........

Bingo...That's the play. I find in unfathomable that a so called Black american would ever fix their fingers to write some bullshyt like R&B isn't a real genre

 

[Amo Husserl]

I ain't gone neg you, but c'mon, breh...

 

[Low End Derrick]

"Are we ready to admit (rage bait)"

Worst type of thread or social media post

People be starved of attention these days.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Reading def isn't a strong suit for some of yall

If thread genuinely upset you, use chat-gpt or something to help you

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

we have to admit chris brown has hurt the genre more than helped it

 

[K.O.N.Y]

What first came to be known as "Rhythm & Blues" was actually in simple terms = uptempo Blues w/ a hard backbeat






Yes, early Rock n Roll music is simply Rhythm and Blues with a name change

Jazz is a swung music w/o backbeats (before Hardbop and Fusion came along via Black Gosepl and then Rock n Roll)









Country music is early blues + white anglo-celtic twang. Country didn't have any backbeats until it absorbed R&B and became Hillbilly Boogie/Rockabilly and modern commercial Country

No, it's really a SPECIFIC music that began in the 1940s/1950s






This is because FKA Twigs uses/sings in Soul music-derived style; In the beginning before it was called "Soul", the style of music that Ray Charles birthed was ALSO called R&B

Modern "White Rock N Roll" stayed closer to Black Electric (and acoustic) Blues (a variant of Rhythm & Blues that Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley came out of)











While Blacks acts mixed in Black Gospel vocals to the R&B (which is technically Rock n Roll under its original name) and turned it into Soul->Funk/Funk Rock->Disco











"R&B" isn't a catchall term in the way "Race music" was but obviously, it can be used in a way to segregate music/musicians.

I was just about to @ you too

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Another way to look at it, is that all of these genres are sub-genres of the Blues

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but in a more modern context/as it relates to the thread starter's question; Soul, Dunk, Disco, etc.. are variants of the the OG Rhythm and Blues

R&B is a "macro genre" while Soul, Funk, Disco are "micro genres", which on their own have sub-micro genres/regional sounds (Southern Soul, Philly Soul, Stax, Chicago sound, Motown etc...New Orleans Funk, Ohio Funk, Bay Area Funk, Detroit Funk, Memphis Funk, Texas Funk etc...)

 

[BuckFilly]

Shu•Duh•Fu•Cup

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

I would rather say that Pop and K Pop isn’t real music genres because one of them is white based and the other one is just them redoing Black American classic music