pdiddy2011 said:

Al Jarreau? Al Jarreau?! You go on and on about someone not being R and B enough to make a "greatest list" and Al Jarreau is one of your examples of someone better chosen? Al Jarreau, an artist who is great, certainly, but who is widely heralded as a jazz singer. Just stop.

funksterr said:

That's not what I'm saying. Prince's career began as an R&B act, but that doesn't qualify him as one of THE TOP 10 GREATEST R&B ACTS OF ALL TIME. In order to rank him that high you've got to leave a lot of acts, that are better at R&B music out of the equation. I never even read the list, but where does it list Bobby Womack, Jeffrey Osbourne and Al Jarraeu? I know Aretha Franklin and Anita Baker have to be ahead of Prince, and if they aren't then the list is absolute bullshit. I say Prince is being pigeon-holed, just because he is black. His music is more diverse than the R&B genre.

Yep. Prince's R&B is not more relevant and influential to the genre than Al Jarreau. He definitely can't be ahead of Curtis Mayfield or Issac Hayes, either. Look... either you know or you don't but most black people, meaning black pentacostal gospel music and traditional R&B audiences, don't like Prince's music much. He had a few early singles during the disco era, and then he had the overtly sexual Rick James wannabe, which people went with largely due to the asociation with Rick, Vanity and Morris. After that though..... The River Runs Dry with Adore and Gett Off being the only thing that matters.

He is off the radar of R&B with 90% of his music. That's why he was crying crocodile tears for David Bowie, when you know damn well Natalie Cole is a bigger influence on him and talking about Wendy and Lisa at the Paisley shows.... the hood don't have no use for him, because his R&B is WHACK as hell. Europe though.....

funksterr said:

the hood don't have no use for him, because his R&B is WHACK as hell.

Although.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFp31f_caA

funksterr said:

Prince is many things but definitely NOT an R&B artist so this list is straight racist BS. Maybe he was R&B in 1979, for like 2-4 songs, but other than that, he was pop.

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Prince is primarily a R&B artist, despite his ventures into other genres. I can't see how this can be questioned.