What happened to r & b

[Milk N Cookies]

thug n b did play a part. I will say the the female empowerment movement killed the genre. hoes ladies don't want to be serenaded to.

Nah, we still do... Never stopped.

 

[Im Kemet Rocky & I like penis]

exactly

this is why 90s and earlier eras are the best and music today is PURE shyt

if you disagree ur an idiot

the fukk up, every generation has really good music and shytty music. stop dikkriding the 90s nikka.

 

[Yakno1]

nah fukk that

why should i have to go find it

i didn't have to go find it before

of course there's great underground shyt

i'm talkin the known artists for the most part

its PURE shyt

make it better NOW

AGREED AND DAPPED

 

[TheLoneRanger]

R&B died years ago.

Was just listening to monica miss thang album yesterday then pulled out some Brandy Jaheim smh

 

[FlyRy]

theres been some GREAT R&b the last few years..y'all just stopped listening/looking.
i listen to rnb more than rap these days

 

[Street Knowledge]

There's no money in it anymore

 

[CrimsonTider]

There's nothing wrong with R&B

It's just that rap is more popular

 

[DigitalDopeman]

On a lighter note,

any new/good talent out in that genre? Any good albums dropped in the last year? This genre is huge part of black music culture, but seem like the quality took a hit since the 00's

I dont listen to much R&B but here's some shxt for you to check out:
Bj The Chicago Good- Pineapple Now and Laters
Dwele-Greater Than One
Bilal- Airtights Revenge
Kevin Cossum- Hook vs Bridge 2

 

[Microfracture]

being too blatant

from i wanna love you to i wanna fukk you in the ass type singin

loser shyt

Lmao....I agree with you but even Beyonce has gone from simply making love songs to edgier sh1t like Drunk n Love....man they might actually just wanna grain on that wood instead of get seduced on a psychological level. It's obviously appealing to a significant enough portion of women

 

[Kingshango]

R&B reached it's peak in the 90's, then just fell right off in the mid/late 00's. Now there's no money in it anymore since trap and EDM is poppin.

Im just sick of some of these R&B songs with beats that sound like the water level off Donkey Kong Country.

 

[Truality]

thats why society is fukked up now

no family structure or values

rnb influence of young women is part of it

if u disagree ur an idiot

 

[dakidbanks]

I think we need to place some of the new "R&B" cats in a new genre... the sing rap sh*t over the same type of beats you'd hear Tyga on isn't R&B to me..... Jodeci and Mary J REALLY singing their hearts out over straight hip hop beats was an example of R&B to me... Usher when he 1st came out with the smooth sh*t was R&B to me...... now a days you don't even have to know how to sing for real to be an "R&B" artist unfortunately

 

[scuba]

hoes dont want to be serenaded to.

complete bullshyt... women will never tire of attention...

 

[scuba]

Eh making music for black people directly has lost it's appeal to artists so instead they make music that appeals to everyone except for black people but the artist himself is black and has a history of making R&B which is what I guess appeals to black people.

Cosign... basically r&b singers are so busy chasing a platinum sound they dont even try to make stuff in the artistic roots of r&b... but its ironic because the biggest selling male pop singers are all doing heavily r&b influenced sound,
Timberlake, Thicke, and even Beiber are dropping albums more influenced by a traditional R&B sound that your average black male singer dude... In fact documented fact is Usher 'fell off' from his biggest success when he stopped chasing the R&B sound and started chasing euro pop

 

[scuba]

Im just sick of some of these R&B songs with beats that sound like the water level off Donkey Kong Country.

DAMN HOMIE!