JoseLuisGotcha
Aka Allhiphopsux
Donnell Jones pulls it off the best IMO so good I hardly notice ....
Yay Or Nay: Cussing In R&B?
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avon barksdale
i want my corners
[ame=http://youtu.be/h5hlgX6QhBI]R. Kelly - p*ssy Cry - YouTube[/ame]
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
nikkaz talkin real greasy on them R&B records
The younger nikkaz accept this shyt cuz they werent raised correctly.
Im the product of a 2 parent home
Cursing in R & B is tasteless and boring. Guess you right, it is the product of kids growing up in a fukked up home and their parents not loving each other properly. shyt, when I was growing up, there was R & B music that was safe to play in front of kids in birthday parties. Not anymore with this shyt. Now you get these weak ass parents still in their college phases thinking that you can raise a kid like their little sibling.
R & B directly relates to relationships these days. Or lack of. Everyone wants to have one night stands and not build for anything.
Greenstrings
All Star
Cursing in R & B is tasteless and boring. Guess you right, it is the product of kids growing up in a fukked up home and their parents not loving each other properly. shyt, when I was growing up, there was R & B music that was safe to play in front of kids in birthday parties. Not anymore with this shyt. Now you get these weak ass parents still in their college phases thinking that you can raise a kid like their little sibling.
R & B directly relates to relationships these days. Or lack of. Everyone wants to have one night stands and not build for anything.
cursing in R&B is absolutely fine depending on the context and whether or not is sounds forced. Curse words exist for the same reason any other words do; they express something that no other word can.And cut the cute "2 parent home" shyt. The reason why you and others struggle to conceive of R&B alongside the profane has more to do with conflation of religious motifs with secularised music than anything else. R&B to a large degree was born in the church and still to this day a lot of singers learn their craft singing in choirs.
It follows on from this and the dominant role that Christianity plays in the black community, that a level of wholesomeness is expected from R&B artists and over the decades only a minority have found success by going against the grain in this regard.
And please, don't bring half baked notions of morality into this. The contradiction of thinking that it's ok for kids to listen to songs about infidelity, troubled relationships with overt sexual references as long as there's no swear words is ridiculous and self-deceiving. The idea that one night stands are particular to more modern R&B is clearly :ducktales: and I'm sure you've heard enough R&B to know that's true.
R&B has co-mingled and been shaped by all kinds of music over the years. From hip-hop to trip-hop, dance to funk etc. All this has had a secularising effect and pushed the genre outward. The lines are a lot more blurry than they once were and artists have more room to experiment. It may not be as nakedly popular as it once was (nothing really is) but great, original music is being made. It's just a matter of knowing where to look.
HarlemsOwn
RIP Fresh
im not gonna lie
it does kinda sound weird
but once i started listening to the Weeknd i grew to like it
now it doesnt bother me
it does kinda sound weird
but once i started listening to the Weeknd i grew to like it
now it doesnt bother me
im an old school nikka...
I dont want to hear it
I dont want to hear it
And cut the cute "2 parent home" shyt. The reason why you and others struggle to conceive of R&B alongside the profane has more to do with conflation of religious motifs with secularised music than anything else. R&B to a large degree was born in the church and still to this day a lot of singers learn their craft singing in choirs.
It follows on from this and the dominant role that Christianity plays in the black community, that a level of wholesomeness is expected from R&B artists and over the decades only a minority have found success by going against the grain in this regard.
And please, don't bring half baked notions of morality into this. The contradiction of thinking that it's ok for kids to listen to songs about infidelity, troubled relationships with overt sexual references as long as there's no swear words is ridiculous and self-deceiving. The idea that one night stands are particular to more modern R&B is clearly :ducktales: and I'm sure you've heard enough R&B to know that's true.
R&B has co-mingled and been shaped by all kinds of music over the years. From hip-hop to trip-hop, dance to funk etc. All this has had a secularising effect and pushed the genre outward. The lines are a lot more blurry than they once were and artists have more room to experiment. It may not be as nakedly popular as it once was (nothing really is) but great, original music is being made. It's just a matter of knowing where to look.
trust me, I prefer old school R & B from the 70s to 90s cause they kept cursing to a bare minimum and it was something that I can play in front of family funcions. Plus it has limitless replayability. Can't say the same for today's music
HarlemsOwn
RIP Fresh
i understand ya point of view
i couldnt imagince playing chris brown, rihanna or the weeknd in front of my grand mother
HarlemsOwn
RIP Fresh
Cursing in R & B is tasteless and boring. Guess you right, it is the product of kids growing up in a fukked up home and their parents not loving each other properly. shyt, when I was growing up, there was R & B music that was safe to play in front of kids in birthday parties. Not anymore with this shyt. Now you get these weak ass parents still in their college phases thinking that you can raise a kid like their little sibling.
R & B directly relates to relationships these days. Or lack of. Everyone wants to have one night stands and not build for anything.
you dont gotta attack those that dont mind tho
Greenstrings
All Star
That's the thing. The vast majority of R&B made today has no swear words in it. You're talking about outliers as if they form the majority when that obviously isn't the case.
There is tons of R&B being made with replay value that you can play in front of family functions and I can promise that you ain't heard it.
BedRoomI'z
All Money In
I like the direction this thread is heading.
Like actual dialogue
Like actual dialogue
it depends if its a lovey dovey record it doesnt belong there
but if its something like this
[ame=http://youtu.be/6VWS0zNHZl8]Jeremih- fukk U All The Time (ft Natasha Mosley) - YouTube[/ame]
or this
[ame=http://youtu.be/Y4evWeN4QTU]The-Dream - Abyss (Part 3 of Trilogy) (Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]
were its intended to convey a certain type of emotion, but signers trying to drop punchline on them r&b records is corny
but if its something like this
[ame=http://youtu.be/6VWS0zNHZl8]Jeremih- fukk U All The Time (ft Natasha Mosley) - YouTube[/ame]
or this
[ame=http://youtu.be/Y4evWeN4QTU]The-Dream - Abyss (Part 3 of Trilogy) (Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]
were its intended to convey a certain type of emotion, but signers trying to drop punchline on them r&b records is corny