I wish the neosoul movement of the early '00s would make a come back

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I know what you are saying, but save for John Legend, you are talking legends in the game. They will sell till their deaths.

When the MP3 came up in early 2000s, sales dropped. Quality of music in the mainstream as a whole was falling, so people got

singles instead of whole albums. Then, that same rationale started affecting the sales of quality albums as well. All of a sudden, black

musicians sales became entwined with white consumer spending, mostly of the rap genre, and shyt took off from there. Black people

all but fell back from buying, while whites kept buying in.

Some people would like to revise history and say whites changed the game first, but blacks stopped spending as much, as did whites, but white

people bought into the trash and kept that shyt afloat. Our wholesome genres fell off, then we went into that early 2000's period where every

song was built to be a ring-tone hit rather than a radio hit. Musical quality hasn't recovered since, far as mainstream black music.

Sure

But these are the same artist who wasn't with the whole "don't market me" "don't put me out there cause im different" you saw what happened to Lauryn Hill. You can't be too cool and "deep" too push and market your music then blame us for not knowing when yo album dropped. Combined with the idea of dropping every three to four years, then if it is sub par. I agree with what you're saying as far as the mp3 and stuff. I respect what you saying and where you coming from no doubt.
 

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Sure

But these are the same artist who wasn't with the whole "don't market me" "don't put me out there cause im different" you saw what happened to Lauryn Hill. You can't be too cool and "deep" too push and market your music then blame us for not knowing when yo album dropped. Combined with the idea of dropping every three to four years, then if it is sub par. I agree with what you're saying as far as the mp3 and stuff. I respect what you saying and where you coming from no doubt.
Yea, some people changed it up. The truth of the matter is we could see where consumer spending habits *and* label investment was going. This all came to a peak
when Soulja Boy blew up off of myspace, and later, youtube. Music became more accessible, so waiting for quality gave way to "The new hot shyt" that would drop
every couple of months, do crazy numbers, then have the artist disappear altogether.

People like Lauren Hill didn't feel that loyalty to their fanbase and ate their own meal ticket. shyt sucks but :yeshrug:. Least all these years later, we have over 2 decades
worth of great music we can dig up, some we loved, some we never heard. I still spin 80's hits like the shyt just came out so I don't miss anything. Unfortunately, that means I don't spend for artists anymore.
 

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The only thing I didn't like is...


But they time I was old enough to really be a real man......


That shyt was basically dead and I wasn't able to be all neo soul stylish n shyt without looking like a funny style nikka.



And now singers wanna be thugs...... and those other style nikkas are mostly Hotep ass nikkas.
 

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Neo-Soul is my shyt. I'm big on the jazz/poetry/neo-soul scene because of it's smoothness, but it also puts over black intelligence and excellence. It never died musically but it died from a popular standpoint. Every thing goes through a cycle of ups and downs. It will come back eventually.
 

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Yea, some people changed it up. The truth of the matter is we could see where consumer spending habits *and* label investment was going. This all came to a peak
when Soulja Boy blew up off of myspace, and later, youtube. Music became more accessible, so waiting for quality gave way to "The new hot shyt" that would drop
every couple of months, do crazy numbers, then have the artist disappear altogether.

People like Lauren Hill didn't feel that loyalty to their fanbase and ate their own meal ticket. shyt sucks but :yeshrug:. Least all these years later, we have over 2 decades
worth of great music we can dig up, some we loved, some we never heard. I still spin 80's hits like the shyt just came out so I don't miss anything. Unfortunately, that means I don't spend for artists anymore.


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I feel you my g. Im still listening to Cerrone, Ohio Players, New Order, Earth wind and fite myself. Looking bacc, it was the best of times and the worst of times. :ehh:
Iwant to know what kind of r&b soul music u listen to from the 80s if u don't mind sharing:feedme:
 

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Neo-Soul is my shyt. I'm big on the jazz/poetry/neo-soul scene because of it's smoothness, but it also puts over black intelligence and excellence. It never died musically but it died from a popular standpoint. Every thing goes through a cycle of ups and downs. It will come back eventually.

Looks at ur avi.....sees a prime Nia Long and prime LarenTate from the movie Love Jones:banderas:
 

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I feel you my g. Im still listening to Cerrone, Ohio Players, New Order, Earth wind and fite myself. Looking bacc, it was the best of times and the worst of times. :ehh:
Iwant to know what kind of r&b soul music u listen to from the 80s if u don't mind sharing:feedme:
Actually, mostly power ballads and New Wave. However, Ohio Players and new order gets. For R&B and soul, I got wrapped up mostly in the 90s stuff, save
for 80's Anita Baker and Gloria Gaynor:ohlawd:
 
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