Name An R&B Group Or Singer You Thought Would Blow Up But Never Did

[Kyle C. Barker]

Joi when she dropped this. Wasn’t expecting her to be like Toni Braxton or Mariah big, but I thought she’d become a staple among black female listeners like Jill Scott, erykah, and (for that era) Angie stone and India arie




I also thought goapele would blow up and get to that a list neo soul star level

Good pick. Joi was kind of the first neo soul singer imo. She was on that back in '93.



I really liked that song too

 

[Karb]

 

[Karb]

That nikka J Holiday.

 

[brownsugah]

This reminds of the following thread. One of my favorites during my time on The Coli. Lol. Essential - Very Very Low-key R&B/Soul Classics

 

[Karb]

Latif

An Eritrean chick introduced me to this song in like '05



Brings back memories

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

Kut Klose first album is a classic. You have any info about why they didn’t pan out? I know their singles didn’t chart too well

That would be my guess right there. Probably didn't get a big enough push by their label.

 

[soulfuljah]

I dapped most of the ones I agreed with like

Soul For Real
Kut Klose
Joi
Glenn Lewis (dude sounded like young Stevie)
Raheem Devaughn (I swore dude had next)

But 2 that popped to mind for me was:

Choklate - She is just so good. I get that in this day and age, the landscape for R&B has drastically changed but it's criminal that she isn't a megastar. That debut album alone
This joint so smooth


Co-Ed - Senior year of high school and everybody was bumping Roll With Me.


It did give us this classic

 

[jshani]

Latif

An Eritrean chick introduced me to this song in like '05



Brings back memories

good shyt, breh...i had an ex put me on to this song from dude when i broke up with her on some it's not you, its me shyt


damn, i was young and stupid

 

[Ziggiy]

Thought dude was gonna be like Joe

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

Y’all dropping hella one hit wonders...like great, here’s your dap, but did you really think all the people you’re dropping had next? Ipthere has to be a little more substance behind it than just one hit - connections/label/ porkducer, having a few singles and one that did extremely well, them getting coverage, an album or two


A lot of songs being posted in here I could tell the person/group wasn’t gonna be around past that hit

Then get off forums and work in the music business nostradamus

 

[daboywonder2002]

I thought kelly Rowland would make a nice lane for herself.

Obviously not Beyoncé lvl but at least Ciara lvl.

Please do not mention her again. Kelly had so many chances its not funny. Dilemma with Nelly. Like this with Eve and Motivation with Wayne. But could never follow up with a second single. One minute she's r and b, the next she's pop and edm.

 

[Loken]

how these boys didnt blow up i'll never know had jon B with them to shytttttttttt











all ways thought TQ should of blew up more then he did

 

[T'krm]

No particular order:

And Frankie J about mad as a bytch, Bruno Mars came and Jacked entire swag, and ran with it

*Honorable mention this this young dude wit the Anthony Hamilton vibe:

 

[T'krm]

I thought Miguel would be bigger than he is

Miguel was on the cusp of mainstream. Ppl forget him not making it there is of his own doing, mainly arrogance. You don't stick ur middle finger at ur Black audience before they let you in, else when you fall(literally on stage) they won't be there to pick you up case in point: Chrisette Michele

 

[Steel]

Emeli Sande too lazy to post YouTube vids but she got some heat. I expected her to be bigger than she is