Who is the one artist that didn't pop that really should have popped??

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Alice Smith.

Got the superstar treatment one year at Black Girls Rock. That was it.

 

[TheDarkCloud]

Alice Smith.

Got the superstar treatment one year at Black Girls Rock. That was it.

Wow. You nikkas actually do know music. This is surprising.

"Dream" is such a dope ass song. I forgot all about her.

 

[Zero]

Ali Vegas

And why are y'all naming artists that went gold and platinum in a thread about artists who never made it?

nikkas about dumb as hell

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Asia Cruise



@General Mills you need to see if she's still in Jacksonville

 

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

Yall are naming mfs that have gold and platinum plaques

 

[General Mills]

Asia Cruise



@General Mills you need to see if she's still in Jacksonville

yes indeed i do.



She has a sturdy chin tho

 

[TheDarkCloud]

Yall are naming mfs that have gold and platinum plaques

"Poppin" can mean whatever you want it to mean. People that should have been bigger or people that didn't gain ground at all.

People like Ameriie and Keri Hilson had a spark at one point but I don't think anybody would call them superstars, even though they should have been. They're pretty much obscure these days. Underrated, under appreciated.

 

[ShadowBroker]

Sorry can't narrow it down to one.

Ester Dean - I think she was a song writer first but she's got an incredible voice.

Electrik Red - I was so sure they were gonna blow up.



Ryan Leslie

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Wow. You nikkas actually do know music. This is surprising.

"Dream" is such a dope ass song. I forgot all about her.

Alice Smith has all the tools.

But the process to "break" a big-voice black female r&b singer has evaporated.

And I'm talking about the old process that broke everyone from Aretha and Gladys up to Whitney, Toni Braxton and Beyonce.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Miguel should really be a bigger artist than he is.

"Sky Walker" is

Sky Walker would’ve been a top 10 hit if Swae Lee would’ve kept that song

 

[419scam]

Max b obviously

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Cheri Dennis

 

[Buckeye Fever]

yes indeed i do.



She has a sturdy chin tho

nikkaz on sohh called her pie face


I was hoping I would've seen her on the beach this summer in St Augustine

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Tamia, Tanya Blount, Sammie, KeKe Wyatt kinda sorta.

 

[TheDarkCloud]

Alice Smith has all the tools.

But the process to "break" a big-voice black female r&b singer has evaporated.

And I'm talking about the old process that broke everyone from Aretha and Gladys up to Whitney, Toni Braxton and Beyonce.

This is interesting. I just started following Alice on IG.

Maybe her music was too abstract. Idk fam. I figured if she had the right push, she probably could have killed the same market that people like Ledisi and Lalah Hathaway are marketed in. But good looks for putting me back onto her because she had legitimately been off my radar for yearsssssss. Forgot all about her.