Bobby Valentino will save R&B.

Janfriend said:

R.Kelly has some classic joints.

I really am ADMIRING PRINCE for SPEAKING OUT on ALOT of ISSUES that he feels PASSIONATE About. It is a SHAME that it seems PEOPLE ARE COLD and KINDA just HARD NOWADAYS...COMPASSION and FEELING should be UTILIZED MORE.

Zelaira said:

It is desensitizing. It is too much. You just wanna scream CALM DOWN. I feel sorry for my generation really. I'm glad I paid attention to older people when I was younger. Young people today need to realise that the opposite sex are more than just a physical entitity. Don't they care to connect on any mental, emotional,spitural way? Sex without a connection is so selfish and empty feeling. Honestly I would rather go masturbate than just fuck a guy on the first date that I was only half into.

Universaluv said:

My band and Leela James have the same manager. Good to see her getting props.

I blame Katrina.

I Know..I am sure there are Alot of Younger people who are GROUNDED and have CLEAR GOALS. Still ya know how College Life is and all that DRINKING and PARTYING goes.. There used to be a SAYING QUITE DUMB LIVE FAST AND LEAVE A GOODLOOKING CORPSE. HOPEFULLY that Way of thinking{IDEOLOGY} is laid to REST.... It SHOULD READ....THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT I GOTTA WEAR SHADES.

Zelaira said:

lilgish said:

Yeah, "You Remind Me Of My Jeep" classic

What issue Krystal? Prince according to Housequake was looking to attend FABULOUS' BIRTHDAY PARTY IN CALIFORNIA.... FABUOLOUS is FROM BROOKLYN and he RULES. I LOVE FABULOUS MAN..HE's Really COOL...Ludicris was at Prince's Musicology Tour in NJ. I wonder what Prince thinks about Jay Z, SNOOP,50 Cent..I think he Likes RAP... Although he MAY NOT ADMIT it...

Zelaira said:

Oh I am sure he likes some hip hop. I like some hip hop. I like Snoop. He has only gotten better over the years. I just don't really like some of the messages they are giving out. Aceyalone now there is a rapper with a message and his lyrics really are poetry.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

RIGHT!! And he's put out a lot of crap in trying to keep up with the crap.

Adisa said:

Hmm well I really can't argue with this. Remember Gangster Glam everyone?

Record companies, major corporations that control the radio airwaves like Clear Channel, and video channels like MTV and BET are to blame for the fucked up state of R&B today.

Rap and hip hop were never threats to R&B until record executives saw that white teenagers were into it. When they saw that major money could be made off a cheap form of music, they started signing more and more hip hop artists and less and less R&B and funk artists. They could make the biggest profit possible by spending the least amount of money possible. Even with the actual "singers", they pushed for more that had a hip hop sound so they wouldn't have to pay for musicians or musical instruments.

Then Clear Channel came in the picture. If there were any more real musicians out there, they were going to make good and damn sure that they got no airplay. If these groups were to catch on, it would cost more money to make the music and less profit for the record companies, which I truly believe Clear Channel must be working hand in hand with together. Groups like Cameo, The Barkays, and War had a new album in the mid 1990s but they were no longer on major record labels like they were in the 1980s. They were all on small record labels and got little or no airplay. Some of the tracks were decent but they couldn't get airplay because if funk were to come back, it would cost more money to make.

Now I hear Clear Channel is buying musical venues and nightclubs also. They want to control every aspect of the music business just in case something underground might catch on and come above ground to threaten hip hop. Funk died in 1990 and they claim that R&B is still alive. Well, it may be alive in ballads (which will always be in style) but even they are stripped down and have those weak hip hop drum machines in them. As far as anything that isn't ballads, the music never gets faster than midtempo. It's been this way for almost fifteen years and it's not going to get better because now there is a new generation that was actually born into this bullshit and that's all they know.

jone70 said:

That was a damn disgrace. I usually tape all the musical performances on TV by Prince but I recorded over that one.

vainandy said:

Hey don't give him such a hard time. He has to whore it out just like we all do sometimes too.

I love and admire whores but he was a street crack "ho" on that one. I admire the call girls because they are more choosey and sleep with a better class of people instead of just any old common trash.
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vainandy said:

Oh you are too much.

I agree
R AND B is virtually inseparable from rap, people say Missy E is R&B, but shes rap. Alot of music of this category is sexist yoyo bitch type stuff, fulling bragging about ice, crystal, hos, fancy cars dobermanns and shit. Whats sadder is the number of youths in it, like Lil Romeo and Bow wow, exploiting 10-12 year old kids to sing about bitches.
R&B has always been sexy about peoples Johnson's and stuff, but it had class u know, Prince or Al Greens sexy falsetto, or Luther Vandross, Marvin gaye s falsettos made those panties drop, and the emphasis was on love as well as sex. Theres no love in modern R&B/rap, its all power, where u at motherfucker and macking the hos, and unattractive female singers (if one can call cursing to a drum machine that) telling it like it is!!
And whats with this people guseting on each others album and shit all the time.

The P man is right, these youngsters have no direction, they have to be like Kanye West(one of the few who I like) and respect tha old school.

vainandy said:

Its corporate racism too. U can't get a contract unless u sing that shit, if u r black and want a #1 u have to sing about fucking or dying. White men have always been amused by the disposable and shallow antics of the so called violent and over sexed black man since slavery. Instead people like Prince and the old R&B singers showed us off as the peacable sensual brothers we really are.

For some reason I am missing TONE LOC...Remember Mr FUNKY COLD MEDINA? And DEON SANDERS.... These were the REAL SHIT!

brothaluv said:

Even rap has been debased, can u have something like Chingy comparable to a master like Doug E Fresh or Curtis blow, ok hell even LL Cool J. Its all videos image and street lyrics that sell a rap or R&B act (rap with a few actually sung words all have fucing in them). The market is saturated with cheaply made disposable rap acts, all frontin as hardcore and bad, and so called talented artists in amongst them. Eminem in particular has a lot to answer for) Whats even sadder is here in New Zealand, we have Maori and Pacific Islanders imitating gangsta rap and doing drive by shootings, P is a major problem and death rap is also common. If they imitated Prince and what he stood for, clean but playful songs, no drugs and sheer hard work wouldnt that b better.
I hear y all about the moribund state of urban music, I was a rap fan up to 96, but went off it once I got to uni strange that.

Krystal666 said:

Right On!

Exactly. All that violence and the talk about "keeping it real" and "staying true to the ghetto".....racists love it. They see them as "staying in their place in the ghetto fighting and killing where they belong".

vainandy said:

Keeping everyone seperated is brilliant in keeping racism alive and well.

LOl....Watch HBO'S PIMPS UP HOES DOWN..LOL.. ICE T with his CURLS...WATCH HUSTLE AND FLOW..... I'm probably one of Prince's ONLY BIG FAN who GET's OFF ON this SHIT...LOL... I LOVE RAP...

I love the part when he was getting his hair done and talking about Warner Brothers.....

Yeah, I was a ho. I was Warner Brothers' bitch and they were pimping me. But I was a good ho.....

When Bone Thugs & Harmony did a song called "The First Of The Month", I knew the end was near.

tane1976 said:

I totally agree with you, especially about everyone guesting on each others albums. That pisses me off so much. You don't even know how talented the artist is because every song has a guest appearance by somebody on it. I'm shocked more people aren't bothered by that.