R&B is coming back strong!

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No mention of Michael Kiwanuka in this thread yet? I am disappoint. Guy sounds like a cross between Bill Withers, Otis Redding, and, on rare occasion, Sam Cooke.

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Album: Home Again
Year: 2012

I'm Getting Ready
I'll Get Along


Speaking of Michael, another nice artist from Britain: Jamie Woon

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Album: Mirrorwriting
Year: 2011

Gravity
Night Air
Spirits
 
Frank Ocean his mixtape and album are pretty solid

Alicia Keys new album is also pretty good

Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless probably one my favourite albums from the last few years
 
Row said:
unless toni braxton is coming back with it I'm not interested
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Sadly, but also somewhat smartly, she's seem to gone the dance music route. Pulse had so many dance remixes and the one song I know she released last year (I Heart You) was a dance single. Maybe it's time to look/listen to Tamar, her sister.
 
GuitarAtomik said:
You would never guess this but Patrick Stump (yes, Fallout Boy Patrick Stump) had a pretty hot R&B soul track on his solo EP. Serious Michael Jackson vibes.

Patrick Stump - Cute Girls (ft Om'Mas Keith)

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Unfortunately the rest of the EP isn't nearly as strong.
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I'm going to check this out, along with the many great recommendations in this post. I love Om'Mas, I hope he blows way up. He and Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra.........sonically crazy.
 
I heard this funky tune on the radio today. Turns out it was Justin Timberlake's new one.

I like his stuff. When he was releasing music, it was amongst the best pop music around for me.

Edit: and, I heard Paramore's new one today too, t'was to my liking also. Screw it, pop music has a place in anyone's collection if you ask me.

I can't be bothered with the charade of pretending I don't get a kick out of some cheesy music!

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NinjaBoiX said:
I heard this funky tune on the radio today. Turns out it was Justin Timberlake's new one.

I like his stuff. When he was releasing music, it was amongst the best pop music around for me.

Edit: and, I heard Paramore's new one today too, t'was to my liking also. Screw it, pop music has a place in anyone's collection if you ask me.

I can't be bothered with the charade of pretending I don't get a kick out of some cheesy music!

*avatar quote*
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Pop music thread is in the OT Communities

Actually looking through this thread, some posters, just a few, maybe a bit more than a few, are confusing R&B with Pop and Alternative...
 
The Abominable Snowman said:
Pop music thread is in the OT Communities

Actually looking through this thread, some posters, just a few, maybe a bit more than a few, are confusing R&B with Pop and Alternative...
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It honestly doesn't matter to much. Because there is definitely pop stuff with an R&B feel to it. So there is no need to act like that in this thread.
 
?uestlove Says D'Angelo's New Album Is "99 Percent" Done

?uestlove says that he and D'Angelo are in the final stages of recording the singer's third album.

D'Angelo triumphantly returned to the music scene last year after a long hiatus, teaming back up with The Roots' ?uestlove to complete his third album.

During an interview with Billboard.com, the drummer said that the two have been in the studio finishing up work on the LP, which they began recording back in 2004. He explains that they were spending almost entire days wrapping up the project, and confirms that it's "99 percent" done.

"All last week, I was in the studio finishing (the album)," he said. "We spent close to 18 hours, well not me personally because I have to go to 'Fallon,' but usually right after work. He's the only person that I'll actually go to the studio with and stay there to six in the morning, re-doing these drum parts. I won't even do that for my own band, but I'll do it for him. Right now, we're just tightening up the loose ends. But I still stand by, 99% of it is done."

?uestlove, who says that the album should be done by February at the latest, likened the album to a "classic" that's ahead of its time and compared it to Sly and the Family Stone.

"I would not be far off by saying this is probably my generation's version of Sly (and the Family Stone's) 'There's a Riot Goin' On.' It's potent. It's funky. It's an extremely hard pill to swallow," he said. "He's one of those artists that have, of course, taken 13 years to follow up a record. It's going to take you about 10 years to digest this record. Totally brilliant. Just the way this society works with music… being able to judge if something is a classic after the first listen, you can do that after thirty seconds on this. And the fact that we started this record in 2004, and it still sounds like it came out five years from now, it is a testament to the timelessness of it"

After announcing his first U.S. performance in 10 years last May, D'Angelo gradually returned to the spotlight, performing at award shows and festivals and later hitting the road with Mary J. Blige on "The Liberation Tour."
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/...lbum-is-99-percent-done?utm_source=feedburner
 
can we just transform this into an R&B [OT], a lot of new stuff comes out pretty often and i feel its a pretty popular genre
 
Just started listening to some peeps that were recommended on here.

1977
Love King
Kaleidoscope Dream
Channel Orange

Hot!!!!
 
Tguy said:
JMSN - †Priscilla†
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This isn't amazing or anything but it's definitely pretty decent. There are comparisons between him and The Weeknd, but I feel like there is enough difference between the two. Has potential though and this is free
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One of the best R&B albums I've listened to recently. The production and engineering is top notch!
 
For the last year there's been a lot of music comin' out
The shit been weak, know what I'm sayin'?
A lot of niggaz trying to take hip-hop

And make that shit R n' B, rappin and bullshit ya know what I'm sayin'?
Or make that shit funk
Fuck that, this is MCin right here, this is hip-hop
Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang, gonna bring it to you in the purest form


- The RZA

I'm just joshin with ya kids, enjoy your music :)
 
I was really feeling that Mar - Seeing Her Naked EP that was posted in here so I did some digging around to find more material from the dude and found this:



Really like the laid back vibe from this. :)
 
Switch Back 9 said:
For the last year there's been a lot of music comin' out
The shit been weak, know what I'm sayin'?
A lot of niggaz trying to take hip-hop

And make that shit R n' B, rappin and bullshit ya know what I'm sayin'?
Or make that shit funk
Fuck that, this is MCin right here, this is hip-hop
Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang, gonna bring it to you in the purest form


- The RZA

I'm just joshin with ya kids, enjoy your music :)
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where does he think hip hop came from?
 
JMSN sounds like a low rent JT. The production is fantastic on Priscilla, though. Looks like he's the producer behind the tape too, so the dude has chops in areas

E: I might have to take this back

"Something" is one of the best R&B tracks I've heard in a second
 
I'll have to scan through this thread since Jeremih, Miguel and Frank Ocean's albums in 2012 got me into the genre. I've been listening to Autre Ne Veut a lot lately too, where has this thread been...
 
The Inc. album is pretty hot, been enjoying that if that counts as electronic R&B. Also I don't think this was posted here:

 
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