We lost our R&B .......its gone....damn

[TEH]

Yall tore young ma apart when she said the same shyt, now yall agree with her?

I remember we said it’s who said it not what was said

 

[CrushedGroove]

There is good music but you didn't used to have to dig forever to find it.

When we started minimizing vocal ability and making songs for everyone else, sure it broadened the spectrum, but it opened the doors for dilution.

It also doesn't help we're in this cycle of copying instead our differences being an asset to draw attention.

 

[Wild self]

This at the bolded. I'm a big fan of Babyface's production work but some of the shyt he did for other artists didn't age too well.

Listened to a El Debarge album he produced the other day and it was mostly with those beat kits .

Trap beats killed black music altogether.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

you don't know what you're talking about

Trap beats killed black music altogether.

 

[mykey]

Remember when Macklemore and Iggy Azalea were gonna take over Hip Hop in 2014?

Adele, Sam Smith, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande (her R&B songs), none of them will ever take over R&B, it's still a black genre, sure they have success but white artists will never be the face or the standard of R&B ever.

The great white hopes.

Spoiler

 

[ISO]

R&B is alive and well

 

[Makavalli]

I think that formula really goes back to the 90s. Another interesting thing is you had people like Queen Latifah , Lauryn Hill, Bobby Brown etc sining and rapping on the same track many years ago but it wasn't a clear distinction when they rapped then sung and now it's not and that is my beef. Biggie is another that did this from time to time.

true but they were still being R&B artists and they had the talent where the ones doing it today its more of an image and lauren was the only one great at it. The industry moved away from it cause they dont want to promote happy black love songs just the ratchet ass eating tracks and drill shyt

 

[Edub]

Bye....had a good run

 

[hayesc0]

true but they were still being R&B artists and they had the talent where the ones doing it today its more of an image and lauren was the only one great at it. The industry moved away from it cause they dont want to promote happy black love songs just the ratchet ass eating tracks and drill shyt

Queen Latifah wasnt great at it?

 

[KidJSoul]

The weekend just released After Hours tho

 

[bobbiewishbone]

Lyrics turned into this.

 

[Izanami]

This shyt ain’t R&B I don’t care what anyone says.

 

[Pazzy]

Theres good shyt out here. You just have to look for it or better yet open up your ears. Chances are you don't support it either. Look at what the big homie Musiq Soulchild had to do and yall still didnt get what the point of him switching up by putting out personalities like husel and purplewondaluv. The problem is you guys dont support the artists that basically are the life of the genre. Yall waiting on the mainstream to give you what you want when it doesnt work like that. You have to support the artists. Buy the records. Go to the concerts. Admit to being fans. For every artist yall say is trash, yall could post the shyt yall think is hot or recent brought. Folks complaining just to complain like they wasnt buying tpain, akon, drake, the weeknd the dream and 100 other bad singers that came and went.

 

[Cadillac]

it’s a lot of good R&B out there. Music is just consumed differently these days.

^^^^^^^

but these old ass nikkas love to bytch so

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Everytime I hear some good shyt with flavor on a spotify radio or playlist, I look up the artist and they aren't black

Our people lost the soul