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Thread started 07/21/09 10:04pm

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What in the world has happened to r&b music?

I just heard new singles by Trey Songz w/ Soulja Boy Tellem and Gucci Mane, and by Mario w/ Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett - man, what has happened to r&b?
All of these homothug looking singers wanna be gangster and have guest rappers and the music sounds like pure d shit!
Scarey.
Now Monica is duetting with Keisha Cole, and the latter can't sing a lick;
Mary J. Blige w/ Drake, wow.... all of this is too much.
No wonder record sales are in the toilet. sad
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Reply #1 posted 07/21/09 10:05pm

Timmy84

Can we even call it "music"?
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Reply #2 posted 07/21/09 10:06pm

NastradumasKid

RnBAmbassador said:

I just heard new singles by Trey Songz w/ Soulja Boy Tellem and Gucci Mane, and by Mario w/ Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett - man, what has happened to r&b?
All of these homothug looking singers wanna be gangster and have guest rappers and the music sounds like pure d shit!
Scarey.
Now Monica is duetting with Keisha Cole, and the latter can't sing a lick;
Mary J. Blige w/ Drake, wow.... all of this is too much.
No wonder record sales are in the toilet. sad



Dude, where have you been since 1997???? eek eek eek eek
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Reply #3 posted 07/21/09 10:06pm

Timmy84

NastradumasKid said:

RnBAmbassador said:

I just heard new singles by Trey Songz w/ Soulja Boy Tellem and Gucci Mane, and by Mario w/ Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett - man, what has happened to r&b?
All of these homothug looking singers wanna be gangster and have guest rappers and the music sounds like pure d shit!
Scarey.
Now Monica is duetting with Keisha Cole, and the latter can't sing a lick;
Mary J. Blige w/ Drake, wow.... all of this is too much.
No wonder record sales are in the toilet. sad



Dude, where have you been since 1997???? eek eek eek eek


I'm saying! exclaim falloff
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Reply #4 posted 07/21/09 10:07pm

NastradumasKid

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I just heard new singles by Trey Songz w/ Soulja Boy Tellem and Gucci Mane, and by Mario w/ Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett - man, what has happened to r&b?
All of these homothug looking singers wanna be gangster and have guest rappers and the music sounds like pure d shit!
Scarey.
Now Monica is duetting with Keisha Cole, and the latter can't sing a lick;
Mary J. Blige w/ Drake, wow.... all of this is too much.
No wonder record sales are in the toilet. sad



R&B Singers had rappers in their songs back in the day also.
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Reply #5 posted 07/21/09 10:07pm

Timmy84

NastradumasKid said:

RnBAmbassador said:

I just heard new singles by Trey Songz w/ Soulja Boy Tellem and Gucci Mane, and by Mario w/ Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett - man, what has happened to r&b?
All of these homothug looking singers wanna be gangster and have guest rappers and the music sounds like pure d shit!
Scarey.
Now Monica is duetting with Keisha Cole, and the latter can't sing a lick;
Mary J. Blige w/ Drake, wow.... all of this is too much.
No wonder record sales are in the toilet. sad



R&B Singers had rappers in their songs back in the day also.


Like back in 1984 and shit. lol
[Edited 7/21/09 22:07pm]
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Reply #6 posted 07/21/09 10:11pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:




Dude, where have you been since 1997???? eek eek eek eek


I'm saying! exclaim falloff



Now, even though I was 6 years old, I'll tell you right now that R&B took a big ass leap in '97. I love the 90s but damn some of the things in that decade was crappy.
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Reply #7 posted 07/21/09 10:11pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:




R&B Singers had rappers in their songs back in the day also.


Like back in 1984 and shit. lol
[Edited 7/21/09 22:07pm]



Yep. nod Exactly.
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Reply #8 posted 07/21/09 10:12pm

NastradumasKid

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I just heard new singles by Trey Songz w/ Soulja Boy Tellem and Gucci Mane, and by Mario w/ Gucci Mane and Sean Garrett - man, what has happened to r&b?
All of these homothug looking singers wanna be gangster and have guest rappers and the music sounds like pure d shit!
Scarey.
Now Monica is duetting with Keisha Cole, and the latter can't sing a lick;
Mary J. Blige w/ Drake, wow.... all of this is too much.
No wonder record sales are in the toilet. sad



Now I will admit 98% of R&B is crappy but still.....you're quite too late to be complaining. lol
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Reply #9 posted 07/21/09 10:14pm

Timmy84

NastradumasKid said:

Timmy84 said:



I'm saying! exclaim falloff



Now, even though I was 6 years old, I'll tell you right now that R&B took a big ass leap in '97. I love the 90s but damn some of the things in that decade was crappy.


I was 13 and I remember the turn R&B took. I mean even though hip-hop had always been part of R&B since it came to be in the 1970s, you were starting to get these thug wannabes trying to be R&B singers or at least R&B singers trying to be hard. lol It's never recovered since. lol
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Reply #10 posted 07/21/09 10:17pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:




Now, even though I was 6 years old, I'll tell you right now that R&B took a big ass leap in '97. I love the 90s but damn some of the things in that decade was crappy.


I was 13 and I remember the turn R&B took. I mean even though hip-hop had always been part of R&B since it came to be in the 1970s, you were starting to get these thug wannabes trying to be R&B singers or at least R&B singers trying to be hard. lol It's never recovered since. lol



Some of it was okay but a lot of it was just downright crappy.... disbelief . I was never in to gangsta rap unless it was Nas, Biggie , or Wu-Tang clan. Yeah, you're right R&B REALLY hasn't been the same since....I've notice that we agree with a lot of things lol .
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Reply #11 posted 07/21/09 10:22pm

NastradumasKid

Damn Timmy, I think we scared that guy off. lol
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Reply #12 posted 07/21/09 10:23pm

Timmy84

NastradumasKid said:

Timmy84 said:



I was 13 and I remember the turn R&B took. I mean even though hip-hop had always been part of R&B since it came to be in the 1970s, you were starting to get these thug wannabes trying to be R&B singers or at least R&B singers trying to be hard. lol It's never recovered since. lol



Some of it was okay but a lot of it was just downright crappy.... disbelief . I was never in to gangsta rap unless it was Nas, Biggie , or Wu-Tang clan. Yeah, you're right R&B REALLY hasn't been the same since....I've notice that we agree with a lot of things lol .


Yeah I've noticed that. lol
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Reply #13 posted 07/21/09 10:23pm

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Timmy84 said:

Can we even call it "music"?


It's "beats".
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Reply #14 posted 07/21/09 10:25pm

Timmy84

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

Can we even call it "music"?


It's "beats".


And reverb. lol

Reverb & beats. lol
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Reply #15 posted 07/21/09 10:25pm

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It became 'Neo-Soul' - Sorry, I know that title is not liked here, but that's kinda what R&B has tranformed into. The shit that is called R&B by the radio is really just hip-hop with an R&B artist singing the chorus AKA hip-pop. nod
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Reply #16 posted 07/21/09 10:26pm

Timmy84

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It became 'Neo-Soul' - Sorry, I know that title is not liked here, but that's kinda what R&B has tranformed into. The shit that is called R&B by the radio is really just hip-hop with an R&B artist singing the chorus AKA hip-pop. nod


No it's reverb and beats. lol
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Reply #17 posted 07/21/09 10:26pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

TonyVanDam said:



It's "beats".


And reverb. lol

Reverb & beats. lol



The only thing I really don't like about R&B is that everyone wants to be the next Usher or MJ there's really nothing orginal about it anymore.
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Reply #18 posted 07/21/09 10:28pm

Timmy84

NastradumasKid said:

Timmy84 said:



And reverb. lol

Reverb & beats. lol



The only thing I really don't like about R&B is that everyone wants to be the next Usher or MJ there's really nothing orginal about it anymore.


Don't forget Janet, lol.
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Reply #19 posted 07/21/09 10:29pm

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What's reverb. Anyway I don't like neo-soul, all that slow tempo bullshit GTFOH.
Did Prince ever deny he had sex with his sister? I believe not. So there U have it..
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Reply #20 posted 07/21/09 10:29pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:




The only thing I really don't like about R&B is that everyone wants to be the next Usher or MJ there's really nothing orginal about it anymore.


Don't forget Janet, lol.



Oh yeah I forgot about her.....I;ve also notice a lack of female rappers sad nowadays.
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Reply #21 posted 07/21/09 10:30pm

Timmy84

NastradumasKid said:

Timmy84 said:



Don't forget Janet, lol.



Oh yeah I forgot about her.....I;ve also notice a lack of female rappers sad nowadays.


Everybody rather be a video ho than a female emcee, lol. That's why Queen Latifah has stopped trying to be a jazz singer. lol
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Reply #22 posted 07/21/09 10:30pm

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Timmy84 said:

estelle81 said:

It became 'Neo-Soul' - Sorry, I know that title is not liked here, but that's kinda what R&B has tranformed into. The shit that is called R&B by the radio is really just hip-hop with an R&B artist singing the chorus AKA hip-pop. nod


No it's reverb and beats. lol


lol Fine. It's reverb and beats mixed with elephant turds. Man, R&B really is sad nowadays. Really hurts my heart at what it's become. Such a waste. disbelief
Prince Rogers Nelson
Sunrise: June 7, 1958
Sunset: April 21, 2016
~My Heart Loudly Weeps

"My Creativity Is My Life." ~ Prince

Life is merely a dress rehearsal for eternity.
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Reply #23 posted 07/21/09 10:31pm

Timmy84

estelle81 said:

Timmy84 said:



No it's reverb and beats. lol


lol Fine. It's reverb and beats mixed with elephant turds. Man, R&B really is sad nowadays. Really hurts my heart at what it's become. Such a waste. disbelief


Elephant turds and dog feces. Yuck, lol. ill
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Reply #24 posted 07/21/09 10:31pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:




Oh yeah I forgot about her.....I;ve also notice a lack of female rappers sad nowadays.


Everybody rather be a video ho than a female emcee, lol. That's why Queen Latifah has stopped trying to be a jazz singer. lol



My grandmother has a bootleg of her jazz album falloff
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Reply #25 posted 07/21/09 10:34pm

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Timmy84 said:

NastradumasKid said:




Oh yeah I forgot about her.....I;ve also notice a lack of female rappers sad nowadays.


Everybody rather be a video ho than a female emcee, lol. That's why Queen Latifah has stopped trying to be a jazz singer. lol


Yeah, what up with that? Why they all want to look like over-paid hookers? Not cute. hmph!
Prince Rogers Nelson
Sunrise: June 7, 1958
Sunset: April 21, 2016
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"My Creativity Is My Life." ~ Prince

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Reply #26 posted 07/21/09 10:34pm

NastradumasKid

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Timmy84 said:



No it's reverb and beats. lol


lol Fine. It's reverb and beats mixed with elephant turds. Man, R&B really is sad nowadays. Really hurts my heart at what it's become. Such a waste. disbelief


Ne-yo is sorry, Usher is.....getting older.....and...Chris Brown is a women beater. lol Wow, R&B has come a long way lol .....for 12 years.
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Reply #27 posted 07/21/09 10:35pm

NastradumasKid

estelle81 said:

Timmy84 said:



Everybody rather be a video ho than a female emcee, lol. That's why Queen Latifah has stopped trying to be a jazz singer. lol


Yeah, what up with that? Why they all want to look like over-paid hookers? Not cute. hmph!



Because they are, remember "Tip-Drill" back in '04?
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Reply #28 posted 07/21/09 10:37pm

Timmy84

estelle81 said:

Timmy84 said:



Everybody rather be a video ho than a female emcee, lol. That's why Queen Latifah has stopped trying to be a jazz singer. lol


Yeah, what up with that? Why they all want to look like over-paid hookers? Not cute. hmph!


As Nastradumas said, they are, lol

That "Tip Drill" was a mess, lol
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Reply #29 posted 07/21/09 10:38pm

NastradumasKid

Timmy84 said:

estelle81 said:



Yeah, what up with that? Why they all want to look like over-paid hookers? Not cute. hmph!


As Nastradumas said, they are, lol

That "Tip Drill" was a mess, lol
[Edited 7/21/09 22:37pm]



Yep, it was a mess lol Its one of the reasons why I hate BET. mad lol
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