Has R&B fallen off?

LOL! Yes, that shit is annoying....

 

A hot track transcends maybe a season or two (fall winter spring summer, your pick) a classic transcends TIME (I mean you can play that track a million years from now and people will start nodding there head). LMAO hell yea mixtapes= adlib central.

 

Its just sad that you cant even listen to the radio anymore. I mean excuse me if Im wrong, but aint GOOD music suppossed to be on the radio. Looking for good music on the radio is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Id probably take my odds and look for the needle. Thank GOD for underground music.

 

AMEN!

I hardly listen to the radio anymore either.

Shit is saturated with bullshit...

 

I stopped listening to the radio in 8th grade. I Stopped watching MTV and all that other shit in 8th grade. Ironically, it was MTV that got me off of MTV. They were playing one of their old school segments and NWA's "Express Yourself" came on, then "3rd Base's "Brookyln Queens". I was like, "this shit is SICK!" I never looked back.

I only listen to the radio for the old school station, and that's only when I'm changing cds. Although, I do love the djs on that station, but there is no point in listing to songs in shit radio quality, when my mom has this shit in cd or vynil back at the house.

 

Yup.


Example: MIMS

That track was "hot" as fuck for the entire 2nd semester of 12th grade in 07. By the time we graduated, that fool was done.

Longest lasting trend out here was hyphy, and that was only because I'm in Northern Cali and hyphy is a Bay thing.

 

IDKY MTV calls themselves music television. All they show is reality tv, maybe 3 hours of music. They need to change there name to RTV.

 

Yes, R&B is in a slump.

I feel like a lot of music is in a slump right now.

You can thank things like the internet and the strive to go "platinum".

Or as the corporations call it, "do big numbers".


I just wish folks would stop worrying about selling the most records and just make hot music that doesn't have a fucking timestamp in the lyrics.

I was listening to this song by homegirl from Destiny's Child, the skinny light skinned one, LeToya. (That's her name*) and she was talkin about "Gucci this, Prada that. Bentleys and Benzes. I iced you. Pop champagne, etc."

I'm like, damn bitch, can't you get more creative than THAT?!

Shit. You have all this time to write albums and make some classic material and you're making the most generic, simple-minded corny substance possible.

If people could just get back to the basics instead of trying to glamorize the material more than it needs to be, it would be so much more fulfilling to listen to. Nobody gives a fuck about brand names in a love song. All we want is emotions and pouring your heart out. Something we can relate to that doesn't involve any sort of currency.

 

Not gonna happen. The business is too big. Too business oriented and not music oriented.

 

:smt095

 

Ever since Jeezy brought back the ad libs, people are over-saturating their music with it now.

I mean, they're cool and all, but damn, there's a time and place for it.

 

I hate adlibs. Only time I like it is when Enimen or Afroman does it, because it's always a bunch of shit talk to make their track funnier. I love how Em used to make sounds to accompany his lyrics.

I do that shit whenever I'm explaining something.

 

Damn, alot more people than i thought are heated over this,lol. Thats good.

I can't even remember the last R&B album i ever bought. I downloaded off i-tunes some stuff from Maxwell's last album. And i'm currently enjoying EryKah Badu's current stuff. But you know stuffs gone bad when you go to the record store and Justin Timberlake is filed under R&B. Most of the R&B we hear now isn't even R&B it's pop. Beyonce? Pop. Rihanna? Mega-pop. Then you got acts like Drake who blur the line so much between R&B and Hip-Hop that you just have to shake your head and laugh. T-Payne is considered R&B!

It's good to hear Mary is going back to the playbook that made her popular and teach these youngins how it's done. (You hear that Keri Hilson?) The game needs her. The game needs Mr.Robert Kelly too. I can only listen to Jere(meh) and the so called American Dream for only so much longer. We need music we freak a girl to again!

 

And is it me, or does every other song have some mufucka sayin' "Hot from the streets. Hood classic!!! We doin' it big!! They ain't fuckin' wit us!!! etc," whether it be a mixtape DJ or the rapper themself.


The shit is hot from the streets and for the streets but you're performing at FSU for rich white kids. Hmmmm.

 

you grew up in my time then buc...back then I used to listen to R&B and actually like it..I loved Boyz II Men and Bell Biv Davoe too

now....now i dont think so

 

I'm surprised you didn't say young buc.

 

dont knock the hustle

those rich white kids pour money into that shit and line their pockets, while we buy the bootlegs from Rodney the mail guy.

 

he might be a young buc, if he only goes as far back as Maxwell and R Kelly

 

Rappers always gotta have some dull ass singing in their tracks. And not Nate Dogg/Kokane/Mike Marshall singin, the generic, bullshit ass singing, usually accompanied by autotune. I was pissed when I heard on of my favorite rappers use autotune in his last album. Luckily, he didn't lay it on TOO thick.

I'm done with new music for the most part. There is so much old school shit out there. I'm not even gonna scratch the surface when I die. Only a handful of rappers I'll fuck with that came out after 2000.

 

...or get the burned downloaded joint from the homie.