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Thread started 02/04/10 6:25pm

BlaqueKnight

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New old R&B: Jaheim - Ain't Leavin' Without You

Jaheim is back with a new one for 2010.
I see he's trying to bring back the up-tempo R&B groove. Good for him.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...5SBQ-TJLrs
Now THAT is how you ride a sample.
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Reply #1 posted 02/04/10 9:09pm

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It's cool, but I wouldn't really call this up-tempo.
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Reply #2 posted 02/04/10 9:27pm

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Compared to a lot of the R&B out now it is.
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Reply #3 posted 02/04/10 10:23pm

SoulAlive

I like this song music It definitely has an Old School sound/vibe to it.
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Reply #4 posted 02/05/10 7:35am

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SoulAlive said:

I like this song music It definitely has an Old School sound/vibe to it.


It should. It uses a sample of Fat Larry's Band's "Act Like You Know".

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Reply #5 posted 02/05/10 8:50am

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BlaqueKnight said:

Jaheim is back with a new one for 2010.
I see he's trying to bring back the up-tempo R&B groove. Good for him.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...5SBQ-TJLrs
Now THAT is how you ride a sample.


Love the guy he just needs to sort out his live stage act....boring... cool
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Reply #6 posted 02/05/10 9:10am

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LondonStyle said:


Love the guy he just needs to sort out his live stage act....boring... cool


I've never seen him live. Unfortunately, by him being in the new generation of performers, I can see how he would not necessarily have inherited a sense of stage. Dude has a good voice, though. He needs better (read: more mature) subject matter for his songs. He's got the voice to step up to the Freddy Jackson spot but his songs still sound like he's singing to 19-20 year olds.
Still, its good to hear a "grown man" voice in the midst of all of these Usher, Omarion, Trey Songz type singers.

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Reply #7 posted 02/05/10 9:37am

Graycap23

I hate sampled music. Damn.
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Reply #8 posted 02/05/10 10:29am

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Graycap23 said:

I hate sampled music. Damn.

Well, technically, its an interpolation. The sample is under it but not out front. The bass line is a bass synth or software synth. So are the drums.
I like the vocals he did over it.
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BlaqueKnight said:

Graycap23 said:

I hate sampled music. Damn.

Well, technically, its an interpolation. The sample is under it but not out front. The bass line is a bass synth or software synth. So are the drums.
I like the vocals he did over it.

That's the magic of Kay-Gee. He has been using this formula for years. He did it with Zhane and Next's "Too Close".
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Reply #10 posted 02/05/10 2:51pm

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I like this smile

@ least it doesnt have that awful euro pop sound that seems to have taken over r&b
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Reply #11 posted 02/10/10 4:36am

SoulAlive

Yeah,I like the way the sample is used in this song.And they actually wrote a great song over it,so this track gets a thumbs up from me.
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Reply #12 posted 02/10/10 6:25am

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daPrettyman said:

BlaqueKnight said:


Well, technically, its an interpolation. The sample is under it but not out front. The bass line is a bass synth or software synth. So are the drums.
I like the vocals he did over it.

That's the magic of Kay-Gee. He has been using this formula for years. He did it with Zhane and Next's "Too Close".

U call it magic. I just turn it OFF.
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Reply #13 posted 02/10/10 9:57am

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Graycap23 said:

daPrettyman said:


That's the magic of Kay-Gee. He has been using this formula for years. He did it with Zhane and Next's "Too Close".

U call it magic. I just turn it OFF.



lol
I did like his work with Zhane and the one single After the Party
with that duo but i don't like anything by Next and i don't care
for Jaheim's music either besides Fabulous and i do like the new
single a little.
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Reply #14 posted 02/10/10 10:11am

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Graycap23 said:


U call it magic. I just turn it OFF.



lol
I did like his work with Zhane and the one single After the Party
with that duo but i don't like anything by Next and i don't care
for Jaheim's music either besides Fabulous and i do like the new
single a little.

These sampling no talents are trying 2 drive me NUTS.
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Reply #15 posted 02/10/10 10:32am

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Tonewise, Jaheim is this generation's Teddy Pendergrass. (or as close as they are gonna get) He's one of the few singers out now who sounds unmistakeably like a black man and isn't singing in some whiny-assed Usher/Omarion tone.
You don't hear voices like Jeffrey Osborne, Barry White, James Ingram, Larry Graham, Freddy jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Issac Hayes, David Ruffin, Miles Jaye, etc., etc., etc. in today's R&B music. There's Anthony Hamilton and Jaheim and maybe a few others that fly very low on the R&B radar like Anthony David and Wade O. Brown. Where's this generation's Christopher Williams?
The R&B baritone has gone the way of the R&B band.
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Reply #16 posted 02/10/10 1:24pm

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He has the voice. He just drives me crazy trying to keep
his street cred. The album with Fabulous on it i could only
stomach two cuts. The album opened with gunshots and him
singing bout the ghetto. Dude tell Kay Gee to let you expand
your horizons.
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Reply #17 posted 02/10/10 4:44pm

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BlaqueKnight said:

Tonewise, Jaheim is this generation's Teddy Pendergrass. (or as close as they are gonna get) He's one of the few singers out now who sounds unmistakeably like a black man and isn't singing in some whiny-assed Usher/Omarion tone.
You don't hear voices like Jeffrey Osborne, Barry White, James Ingram, Larry Graham, Freddy jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Issac Hayes, David Ruffin, Miles Jaye, etc., etc., etc. in today's R&B music. There's Anthony Hamilton and Jaheim and maybe a few others that fly very low on the R&B radar like Anthony David and Wade O. Brown. Where's this generation's Christopher Williams?
The R&B baritone has gone the way of the R&B band.



nod agree with everything you said.
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Reply #18 posted 02/10/10 4:59pm

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i really like this song! it has a nice throwback vibe and Jaheim has a great voice. nod
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Reply #19 posted 02/11/10 8:39am

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BlaqueKnight said:

Tonewise, Jaheim is this generation's Teddy Pendergrass. (or as close as they are gonna get) He's one of the few singers out now who sounds unmistakeably like a black man and isn't singing in some whiny-assed Usher/Omarion tone.
You don't hear voices like Jeffrey Osborne, Barry White, James Ingram, Larry Graham, Freddy jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Issac Hayes, David Ruffin, Miles Jaye, etc., etc., etc. in today's R&B music. There's Anthony Hamilton and Jaheim and maybe a few others that fly very low on the R&B radar like Anthony David and Wade O. Brown. Where's this generation's Christopher Williams?
The R&B baritone has gone the way of the R&B band.

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Co-Sign but let's be honest you don't have very many black men in the mainstream entertainment industry that act like brothers at all.

to many whiny-singers, no brothers with facial hair, and music that is at a ridculous tempo.
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phunkdaddy said:

He just drives me crazy trying to keep
his street cred.


A lot of people have knocked him for being who he is. Personally, I'm glad he stays true to himself instead of putting on eye-liner, wearing dumb costumes, bumping & grinding and singing annoying songs.
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Reply #21 posted 02/15/10 9:34pm

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phunkdaddy said:

Graycap23 said:


U call it magic. I just turn it OFF.



lol
I did like his work with Zhane and the one single After the Party
with that duo but i don't like anything by Next and i don't care
for Jaheim's music either besides Fabulous and i do like the new
single a little.

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Reply #22 posted 02/15/10 9:35pm

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I bought this cd over the weekend and it's not too bad. Jaheim is still trying to do the "thug" r&b. It sounds like his last few albums to me.
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Reply #23 posted 02/15/10 10:13pm

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Tonewise, Jaheim is this generation's Teddy Pendergrass. (or as close as they are gonna get) He's one of the few singers out now who sounds unmistakeably like a black man and isn't singing in some whiny-assed Usher/Omarion tone.
You don't hear voices like Jeffrey Osborne, Barry White, James Ingram, Larry Graham, Freddy jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Issac Hayes, David Ruffin, Miles Jaye, etc., etc., etc. in today's R&B music. There's Anthony Hamilton and Jaheim and maybe a few others that fly very low on the R&B radar like Anthony David and Wade O. Brown. Where's this generation's Christopher Williams?
The R&B baritone has gone the way of the R&B band.



I think Jaheim sounds more closely to Luther Vandross than Teddy. He sounds almost identical to him in some songs. Plus that is who he studied growing up Luther...
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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

BlaqueKnight said:

Tonewise, Jaheim is this generation's Teddy Pendergrass. (or as close as they are gonna get) He's one of the few singers out now who sounds unmistakeably like a black man and isn't singing in some whiny-assed Usher/Omarion tone.
You don't hear voices like Jeffrey Osborne, Barry White, James Ingram, Larry Graham, Freddy jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Issac Hayes, David Ruffin, Miles Jaye, etc., etc., etc. in today's R&B music. There's Anthony Hamilton and Jaheim and maybe a few others that fly very low on the R&B radar like Anthony David and Wade O. Brown. Where's this generation's Christopher Williams?
The R&B baritone has gone the way of the R&B band.



I think Jaheim sounds more closely to Luther Vandross than Teddy. He sounds almost identical to him in some songs. Plus that is who he studied growing up Luther...

eek

Not to me. Jaheim sounds a LOT like Teddy. I hear some of the Luther influences on songs like "Never", but mostly Teddy.
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Reply #25 posted 02/16/10 12:56pm

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:




I think Jaheim sounds more closely to Luther Vandross than Teddy. He sounds almost identical to him in some songs. Plus that is who he studied growing up Luther...

eek

Not to me. Jaheim sounds a LOT like Teddy. I hear some of the Luther influences on songs like "Never", but mostly Teddy.



I disagree in fact that is how he got his recording contract by singing a Luther song. I think it was "House Is Not A Home". He can easily redo a Luther song & most people would be shocked on how identical they sound....Teddy had a more raspier sound...There tone is similar but that's it....
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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

daPrettyman said:


eek

Not to me. Jaheim sounds a LOT like Teddy. I hear some of the Luther influences on songs like "Never", but mostly Teddy.



I disagree in fact that is how he got his recording contract by singing a Luther song. I think it was "House Is Not A Home". He can easily redo a Luther song & most people would be shocked on how identical they sound....Teddy had a more raspier sound...There tone is similar but that's it....


You really think so?


I can see what you're saying about Luther, but I would never say that Jaheim and Luther sound that much alike. Luther's voice was a tad bit "rhapsy" in his early recordings.

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Reply #27 posted 02/16/10 3:23pm

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:




I disagree in fact that is how he got his recording contract by singing a Luther song. I think it was "House Is Not A Home". He can easily redo a Luther song & most people would be shocked on how identical they sound....Teddy had a more raspier sound...There tone is similar but that's it....


You really think so?


I can see what you're saying about Luther, but I would never say that Jaheim and Luther sound that much alike. Luther's voice was a tad bit "rhapsy" in his early recordings.






All of there voices is raspy. But Teddy's voice to me is more raspier. I'll agree to disagree with U. I just see more similarity in Luther. Because his voice was very soulful more so then Teddy's.Jaheim has a soulful voice to me. Plus Jaheim was a huge Luther fan...He idolized him..
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I can't remember which song but Jaheim actually has recorded a Luther song. It was released on his last album "Makings Of A Man". However, here's the catch, it was only available as a bonus track on the I-tunes preorder version! I can kick myself in the azz for missing that one!!! I checked every download site that I knew of and have not been able to find it. mad neutral
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kitbradley said:

I can't remember which song but Jaheim actually has recorded a Luther song. It was released on his last album "Makings Of A Man". However, here's the catch, it was only available as a bonus track on the I-tunes preorder version! I can kick myself in the azz for missing that one!!! I checked every download site that I knew of and have not been able to find it. mad neutral

Did u check on the Japanese edition of the album?
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