The Lady in my Life is one of the best R&B songs ever made.
I asked ChatGPT who were the past and present best male r&b singers
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JuditeTormentor
Rookie
No Michael Jackson, Bill Withers, David Ruffin, or Teddy Pendergrass despite having some of their contemporaries. List is beyond flawed. Not even going to entertain the present day list.
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
written for Tony Braxton/Sza/Drake/Ariana grande/tye dolls sign to name a few. He has a grammy and his third album is currently over a billion streams. Currently, he's ahead everyone on the present list not named Chris.
Peruvian Connect
Superstar
yet nobody heard of him until this year or maybe last year
Amo Husserl
Superstar
Y'all gone learn one day this streaming paradigm put a shelf on everybody it would not have thirty years ago. He got some good accomplishments, but it's gone be the lack of album sales that keep him out of the conversation... and he got too many cowriters and producers all over his album credits. It's only going to hurt R&B to have too many writers and producers on album credits to move units/streams going forward.
Cat piss martini
Veteran
That Past List is Solid..
That present list is like present times.
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That present list is like present times.
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CashmereThoughts
Veteran
the question posed to ChatGPT is "best" not "most commercially successful".
Amo Husserl
Superstar
Okay, computer, let's run it back:
*Leon Thomas III has only two albums out right now. What is his third album?
Leon Thomas III is not the best of his generation, compared to the present listings, he (Leon Thomas III) is still a new R&B artist. When factoring the cultural impact of his album catalogue against his peers, he (Leon Thomas III) is not the best. My post had nothing to do with who was more commercially successful.
It is going to be hard for him to be considered the best in this generation due to streaming hurting his numbers for album sales that might translate to more awards. He has too many other people on his album credits in this generation to be considered the best of his generation.
Chris Brown is the only one from his generation that really survived and file sharing had something to do with eating his competition down. Everybody after Chris Brown, who came after Usher, had something different to offer R&B... why am I being hard on Leon Thomas III?
He not afraid to pull out the guitar. Why ain't he writing his own songs to offer something special to R&B with his own voice?
He's the male equivalent to HER...
Personally, I would replace Giveon with Leon Bridges.
Personally, I would replace Brent Faiyaz with SZA.
If we talkin' 'bout the best. But since y'all asking AI, it don't really matter now do it?
You just lookin' for a reason to argue for a reason that your pick didn't make the cut.
He ain't that good.
Chris Brown is the only one from his generation that really survived and file sharing had something to do with eating his competition down. Everybody after Chris Brown, who came after Usher, had something different to offer R&B... why am I being hard on Leon Thomas III?
He not afraid to pull out the guitar. Why ain't he writing his own songs to offer something special to R&B with his own voice?
He's the male equivalent to HER...
Personally, I would replace Giveon with Leon Bridges.
Personally, I would replace Brent Faiyaz with SZA.
If we talkin' 'bout the best. But since y'all asking AI, it don't really matter now do it?
You just lookin' for a reason to argue for a reason that your pick didn't make the cut.
He ain't that good.
MajesticLion
Veteran
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
Okay, computer, let's run it back:
*Leon Thomas III has only two albums out right now. What is his third album?
Leon Thomas III is not the best of his generation, compared to the present listings, he (Leon Thomas III) is still a new R&B artist. When factoring the cultural impact of his album catalogue against his peers, he (Leon Thomas III) is not the best. My post had nothing to do with who was more commercially successful.
It is going to be hard for him to be considered the best in this generation due to streaming hurting his numbers for album sales that might translate to more awards. He has too many other people on his album credits in this generation to be considered the best of his generation.
Chris Brown is the only one from his generation that really survived and file sharing had something to do with eating his competition down. Everybody after Chris Brown, who came after Usher, had something different to offer R&B... why am I being hard on Leon Thomas III?
He not afraid to pull out the guitar. Why ain't he writing his own songs to offer something special to R&B with his own voice?
He's the male equivalent to HER...
Personally, I would replace Giveon with Leon Bridges.
Personally, I would replace Brent Faiyaz with SZA.
If we talkin' 'bout the best. But since y'all asking AI, it don't really matter now do it?
You just lookin' for a reason to argue for a reason that your pick didn't make the cut.
He ain't that good.
Agree with Leon Bridges
We need to have a serious discussion about Brent
Dude is a rapper who uses vocal processing to pretend he’s singing
Bondye Vodou
Proud practitioner of the "High Science"
No Yung Drizzy Drizz?
Tribal Outkast
Veteran
My wife be dying when she heard a Giveon song now.. She likes him but I think he sounds like a dying giraffe might sound 
I be mimicking his voice when one of his songs comes on XM
That present list
It’s funny how people have to throw Miguel out there when they need to fill a list. I happen to think he’s been one of the top artists of the past few years… people don’t seem to mess with him like that though.
I be mimicking his voice when one of his songs comes on XM That present list
It’s funny how people have to throw Miguel out there when they need to fill a list. I happen to think he’s been one of the top artists of the past few years… people don’t seem to mess with him like that though.
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Westbama Heartthrob
Irregular Zero
Nikka been singing since lion King on Broadway
