what the **** happened to rnb????

Mandarin Duck

Majestic and Highfalutin
Joined
Dec 27, 2012
Messages
27,710
Reputation
11,779
Daps
154,254
Reppin
Ponds
I liked aalyiah before she died, but to be real, she was a marginal talent boosted by the people around her.

its counter-productive to complain about this era, then turn around and act as if aalyiah was a prime example of how great the '90s were. in reality, aalyiah is one of the people who opened up the floodgates for all the blah singers that yall complain about on here.

Aaliyah made great rnb music that did well commercially. That's really all that matters. Wither it was Timbo or Missy behind the shyt it was still great. Idc if we had another female artist who can't sing that well but had a timbo, missy etc behind her to make some good music that would be enough for me :yeshrug:
 

Canada Goose

Pooping on your head :umad:
Joined
May 14, 2012
Messages
30,998
Reputation
11,365
Daps
144,103
Reppin
A lake near Tampa FL
R & B is still being made, just gotta know where to look :ahh:









^^^ Sounds like something R kelly would make, with more modern production.




 
Last edited by a moderator:

flo

All Star
Joined
Jan 30, 2013
Messages
3,137
Reputation
230
Daps
8,004
Reppin
NULL
R&B is making a (very) slow comeback. :yeshrug: Adorn, Fine China, Body Party, etc.

Mainstream wise.... White folks are saving it.

Who? :comeon:

all women are hoes now.. n1ggaz cant write music about love anymore

If all women are hoes, men have to be participating in the hoeing too to allow the opportunity for their hoedom :usure:

I liked aalyiah before she died, but to be real, she was a marginal talent boosted by the people around her.

its counter-productive to complain about this era, then turn around and act as if aalyiah was a prime example of how great the '90s were. in reality, aalyiah is one of the people who opened up the floodgates for all the blah singers that yall complain about on here.

hell yea.

TGT wreckin chit, right out the gate.

:leostare: Name a female singer out that can sing in that effortless Aaliyah falsetto.
 

frush11

Superstar
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
21,807
Reputation
3,012
Daps
49,280
Reppin
NULL
The great Soulful Vocalist of today have been pushed underground. You want to hear true Soulful singing look in the Broken Beats, Soulful House Scenes. That's where the Soul is at people.




Vocalist like her back in the days, would've been doing R&B.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Homeboy Runny-Ray

From Around The Way
Joined
May 2, 2012
Messages
20,724
Reputation
-959
Daps
20,141
Reppin
Classic Niccas
Aaliyah made great rnb music that did well commercially. That's really all that matters. Wither it was Timbo or Missy behind the shyt it was still great. Idc if we had another female artist who can't sing that well but had a timbo, missy etc behind her to make some good music that would be enough for me :yeshrug:

...........and thus, we have the death of r&b.

stick a fork in that genre because its done, HA.

:leostare: Name a female singer out that can sing in that effortless Aaliyah falsetto.

:laff::laff::laff:
 

Yoda

Banned
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
22,453
Reputation
-5,895
Daps
34,368
Reppin
Hip Hop
this negro actually asking what happend to rnb and instead of mentioning someone like marvin gaye....duke says aaliyah like she was the goddess of rnb.wow. do you fools listen to music before the 90s round here?
 

avon barksdale

i want my corners
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
29,003
Reputation
3,684
Daps
74,365
Reppin
Baltimore Prison
Its out there, but they don't play it for this new gay stuff they play everyday. but here is the new music

[ame=http://youtu.be/jT0gbcq5xqI]Avant - You & I ft. KeKe Wyatt - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://youtu.be/UvPYkWwfXBo]The-Dream - IV Play - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://youtu.be/qRizxxxU6UY]Urban Mystic - In the Morning ft. MDMA (Official Video).mp4 - YouTube[/ame]
 

Mr. Negative

Conspiracy Weirdo
Supporter
Joined
Aug 10, 2012
Messages
29,291
Reputation
8,648
Daps
82,733
Reppin
A Mississippi Cotton Field
this negro actually asking what happend to rnb and instead of mentioning someone like marvin gaye....duke says aaliyah like she was the goddess of rnb.wow. do you fools listen to music before the 90s round here?

this is what happened.

Black community has been taught and conditioned to have the shortest attention span imaginable while at the same time only being comfortable with a life that's right in front of their noses.

Trash influences and no sense of history. Folks swearing "old school" is 2005 and their musical influences are all 25 and younger.

nikkas only like what they're told to like and they're too lazy and scared to even dig in them crates or say they like anything different. You wait for them to discover some new shyt themselves and they just sit there drooling out the mouth.

And thats a fukking shame.

It's like when Menace 2 Society came out. Every nikka and their momma started riding around bumping Computer Love and Al Green. Wasn't nobody thinking about that shyt before hand. Nobody was thinking about it afterwards.

When you brought it up that they aint say shyt about it before, nikkas was like ":wtf: what I ALWAYS liked this shyt cause this what real nikkas always listen to my MOMMA played this while I was growing up-"

:aicmon: bytch nikka you lying and your momma ain't shyt but a gospel music listening whore.

And it ain't like Rap music. This is R&B we're talking about. there should NEVER be a sense of "turn off the radio and you'll find it" with R&B. The radio was BUILT off R&B.


I'm sorry, man. I know I type a fukking essay every time shyt like this comes up, but it pisses me off. It's like a symptom of a disease. The music is a reflection of the culture and mindset of a people. And the greater GREATER majority of our people's mentality is fukked up.
 

flo

All Star
Joined
Jan 30, 2013
Messages
3,137
Reputation
230
Daps
8,004
Reppin
NULL
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_roz9arnSk"]Aaliyah the Christmas song live Christmas in Washington - YouTube[/ame]

You don't have to be a powerhouse to be a good singer.

this is what happened.

Black community has been taught and conditioned to have the shortest attention span imaginable while at the same time only being comfortable with a life that's right in front of their noses.


:rudy: The 90s is twenty years old. That's not old enough? :patrice: White people don't have short attention spans? :whoo: If anyone has short attention spans, its them.
 
Joined
Oct 11, 2012
Messages
4,668
Reputation
333
Daps
4,383
Reppin
NULL
this is what happened.

Black community has been taught and conditioned to have the shortest attention span imaginable while at the same time only being comfortable with a life that's right in front of their noses.

Trash influences and no sense of history. Folks swearing "old school" is 2005 and their musical influences are all 25 and younger.

nikkas only like what they're told to like and they're too lazy and scared to even dig in them crates or say they like anything different. You wait for them to discover some new shyt themselves and they just sit there drooling out the mouth.

And thats a fukking shame.

It's like when Menace 2 Society came out. Every nikka and their momma started riding around bumping Computer Love and Al Green. Wasn't nobody thinking about that shyt before hand. Nobody was thinking about it afterwards.

When you brought it up that they aint say shyt about it before, nikkas was like ":wtf: what I ALWAYS liked this shyt cause this what real nikkas always listen to my MOMMA played this while I was growing up-"

:aicmon: bytch nikka you lying and your momma ain't shyt but a gospel music listening whore.

And it ain't like Rap music. This is R&B we're talking about. there should NEVER be a sense of "turn off the radio and you'll find it" with R&B. The radio was BUILT off R&B.


I'm sorry, man. I know I type a fukking essay every time shyt like this comes up, but it pisses me off. It's like a symptom of a disease. The music is a reflection of the culture and mindset of a people. And the greater GREATER majority of our people's mentality is fukked up.

I couldn't have said it any better. This is a classic, epic and great post! :salute::myman:
 

Steve Piffler

I got them CERTS
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
8,220
Reputation
1,285
Daps
18,681
Reppin
Houston
r&b has turned into hip hop. singing over hip hop beats, singers are rapping now, cursing and explicit lyrics stickers on r&b albums, singers dressing and acting like rappers, "we don't love them hoes" mentality in the music, featuring rappers on slow jams, etc. if you listen to a boyz II men album and then listen to the dream's new album it's like night and day. both are jammin', but only the boyz II men album is a sensual mix of love and heartbreak sung over a lush musical landscape. the dream album is about fukking, strip clubs, and pseudo rapping, sung over bass heavy hip hop tracks made specifically for the club soundsystem. both are welcome. but the boyz II men type of r&b is disappearing, and everyone wants to do the dream's type of sound. no one cares to sing like stevie wonder or donny hathaway anymore. they just want to be r&b rappers. THAT is what happened to r&b. i thought the "neo soul" era was gonna save it, but they died out real quick. ahh well. i'm a crate digger anyway, so i don't just listen to the new shyt. hell, i was jamming the "vulnerable" album on the way to work this morning. im good on my r&b shyt....(google "vulnerable" it if you don't know what it is)
 
Top