R&B is coming back strong!

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Leona Lewis said:
Holy crap, never heard this before. Now that Mariah track seems really lazy :-p
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Too old for me to catch originally but years ago when BET let people do a person Top 20 countdown on Saturday Jermaine Dupri showed that one.

Not having something like that around to have the history of what those people did or listened to or are influenced by is fucking over the current generation. Part of it is half of them are morons but half of any generation is. So they need some help to guide them.

Run the Streetz has more clicks on youtube than the song it is pased on Piece Of My Love.

You couldn't put it on TV cause there was no music video but you could show Guy to people and they can maybe look into it or not.

Watching Pootie Tang they used "I wanna be your man". I thought hey that was a cool song. I looked up on who did it.
I listened to the radio and they played a song and I looked into it.

The 'THIS IS HOT 96.3 HOME OF TODAYS HIP HOP AND R&B!' in every market need to stop being shitheads and play more great songs of the past that have stood the test of time. WTF is the point of playing the same new shit that is mostly shit that the shithead listeners are already getting on their shitty phones and computers already?
 
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royalan said:
Mutya Keisha Siobhan - otherwise known as Sugababes 1.0 - have been in the studio with Dev Hynes recently, and at the end of their last session they had a little fun and reworked Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools." It was then posted on Dev's Soundcloud account.

And...damn this shit bangs HARD.



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Their sound really takes me back to a time when R&B girl groups DOMINATED. Their remake of this song gives me goosebumps. Just so slick and effortless. I'm glad these girls are back together because I think they rival even Destiny's Child when it comes to quality girl groups (who can sing).

Next to Sia, MKS is the act I'm waiting for this year.
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LUKE JAMES.

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I watched an interview of him and my girl Brandy. Had to look him up. His voice is AMAZING. Listen to this song. Dem high notes.
 
Snuggler said:
They're doing a full album, right? Or at least an EP? I hope so because Jeremih and Shlohmo is a fucking rad combination.
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This was supposed to be a one-off for that Adidas series that hooks up collabs(Danny Brown+Araabmuzik/Angel Haze+Lunice). Apparently they're doing a few shows next month and in that vid on the last page they had some other stuff going in the studio so we can only hope.

Also: Jojo - Andre
 
So what's happened to the deep voices in RnB? I don't have a problem with higher ones but I ain't seeing no Tyrese, genuwine etc. type of voices these days
 
FreeMufasa said:
So what's happened to the deep voices in RnB? I don't have a problem with higher ones but I ain't seeing no Tyrese, genuwine etc. type of voices these days
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Deptford Goth's voice is pretty damn deep.

Also just copped the Denitia and Sene album officially, no more streaming.

 
HiResDes said:
And...Inc., teh gods
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Man, finally got around to listening to that album and good lawd...it's amazing! It'll definitely get a lot of play from me during my commute to work. The album is perfect for that 6am drive mixed with my usual caffeine induced state.

Anyway, any word on Denitia and Sene putting out a physical release of their album?
 
I love that this thread exists, because as far I can tell the last few years have just seen RnB give way to some ridiculously shit dance music. When I saw Usher release a dance-RnB track I wanted to put 8701 on and cry over the loss of a great genre.
 
I've been listening to Autre Ne Veut, Rhye and Inc. a bit already, but there's lots of good stuff here I haven't heard yet. Denitia and Sene is really nice.

This is fringe but if you're into stuff like the artists listed above, or James Blake or the XX it's worth a listen (click pics for audio):


Robot Koch - The Other Side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhuAxg9Z_b8

More of that moody, chilled out shit:


Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pln6pZ6jho
 
ooh new thedream!

listened to autre ne veut's LP, good shit. wouldn't have got onto it without this thread so thanks respective posters.
 
Uh yeah, I don't think I can listen to inc. ever again

http://www.factmag.com/2013/03/04/v...-world-and-stripping-the-blackness-out-of-rb/
“We’ve never even said that we are R&B. We’re just making our music. R&B is pretty much dead, rock and roll is dead – the only thing that’s left from this stuff is spirit. So that’s how we see it, it’s like a spirit, and when we need to get in our zone we put on Reverend James Moore. They’re all like saints to us – Luther Vandross is like a saint, and Prince and D’Angelo.

“And then on the other side, the poetry side, I look at people like Billy Corgan and that white energy is powerful too, I feel a lot from the white energy on a certain level – but that is a white energy and it’s different, and we can’t keep smushing it all together and being like, ‘yay’.”
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uhhhhhhh
 
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