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R&B ain't never gonna die, you just gotta look a little harder
Why they don't make male R&B collabs like this anymore
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R&B ain't never gonna die, you just gotta look a little harder
It is also radio and tv's fault. How is anyone supposed to know about it if it doesn't get promoted?
Again, (excluding Alicia Keys) the music wasn't promoted much. There should be more outlets on tv radio mags, billboard to promote r&b music made by black people. The whites r&b music gets play.
It does lol. DRAM's music makes me feel happy, Drake's makes me feel sad/hyped/ambitious, Young Thug's music makes me want to speak in tongues for no reason, 21 savage's music makes me want to throw money in someone's face, Lil Yachy's music makes me feel like doing crazy shyt, Uzi Vert's makes me want to walk around in pajamas and say "she wanna smoke my dope, YEAH!"
I think music became too diverse for you guys too quickly. @Giselle thinks that because 5 of her friends hate music that it means that the whole generation does also.
You guys are funny
Nope. You're just a clueless little boy.
We are talking about r&b/hip hop in this thread. Those genres aren't diverse at all. Neither is pop. That is the issue. Even other genres like rock and country have began adding trap/r&b to their music. (heathens 21 pilots, chainsmokers closer(stolen from fetty wap) ). Made by white people, usues hiphop/r&b along with their own genre and tops charts with promo.
In the internet age, people making nothing mothafukkas like Uzi Vert and Yachty pop off so hard, they dont NEED majors.
Am I to believe that all the old and new Neo Soul artists are wack/inept at social media? Fact is, customers are paying for turn-up music. Its the customers fault.The radio and TV don't play what won't get them paid. How do they get paid? Us. People out here stacking money without ever having a major deal or real TV exposure, then suddenly
we got a Sprite commercial with Lebron, with Lil Yatchy playing. Again, its the customers fault.
Honey, you have the radio all wrong. There is a monopoly on today's radio. All of the popular stations of each genre are owned by clear chanel aka iHeart radio. Labels and other people have to pay iheart to play their music on the radio. It doesn't matter what the public wants.
Trap/trash rap is the only genre able to get popular through the internet like that. It is popular rn. A party "turn up" song, easy to listen to and makes people dance. Usually about fcking, clubs and other garbage. That doesn't happen for other genres. Ex. Neo soul, r&b, rap that's not trap. Songs that talk about love and other things outside of the typical trap garbage. Rock/pop rock doesn't even get much mainstream play like it used to. Neither does country. Some of them try to add trap to their music to get play. Everything is screwed.
Sugar, I know the radio, as them fukkshyts got my favorite radio show canned bout 5 years ago
They wanted to go "younger" and the rotations got more stale, as well as thatwack mawfukka they replaced my man.
In any case, people are popping solely off the internet, so much so that internet celebrity isn't a thing to laugh at anymore. I saw a 17 year old gay dude on a covergirl commercial the other day.
FIRST dude on covergirl. How? He blew up on social media doing makeup
I have absolutely no reason to believe these Neo soul and RnB dudes couldn't get a neat little following withouttrap rapping, but are the customers gonna pay? Just like when MP3s made the CD/cassette market eat a dikk, even moreso when customers were able to just buy the songs they want rather
than a whole album of wack shyt to get heat, customer tastes change the market. Music ain't making the money it once was, hence all the crossbranding and folks relying on tours and merchandise
to live, but that only goes so far if your fanbase has dried up in favor of dancing to mumbling dudes wearing barrettes and doing feminine dances.
Sugar, I know the radio, as them fukkshyts got my favorite radio show canned bout 5 years ago
wack mawfukka they replaced my man.
In any case, people are popping solely off the internet, so much so that internet celebrity isn't a thing to laugh at anymore. I saw a 17 year old gay dude on a covergirl commercial the other day.
FIRST dude on covergirl. How? He blew up on social media doing makeup
trap rapping, but are the customers gonna pay? Just like when MP3s made the CD/cassette market eat a dikk, even moreso when customers were able to just buy the songs they want rather
than a whole album of wack shyt to get heat, customer tastes change the market. Music ain't making the money it once was, hence all the crossbranding and folks relying on tours and merchandise
to live, but that only goes so far if your fanbase has dried up in favor of dancing to mumbling dudes wearing barrettes and doing feminine dances.
Youtube makeup artist and making it in the music industry are NOT the same thing at all. These trap people who blow up can only sell or stream singles, people mostly stream the rest of their stuff if they are interested, which they usually aren't. Just because someone is popular on social media or the internet doesn't mean that their music is selling. Also, those trap rappers you mentioned being on commercials are signed to labels, 360 deal most likely, which is how they got endorsments. I only know of one rapper who has endorsments and isn't signed to a label, and that is chance. That doesn't usually happen.
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Real talk right hereI'm not religious but the lack of church going has hurt vocalist, all the great singers honed their craft in the church
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This song just popped up on my Google Play mixThat Daniel Caesar dude's vocals sound like Jon b.