TonyVanDam said:

RebirthOfCool said:

(ahem) AGAIN - Anybody mentioning that wackass group of talentless hoes known as the Spice Girls as R&B, should get an immediate 2 week ban and a mandatory screen name change. Is that clear enough now?

If that's how you want it, then Total & Destiny's Child should never be mention in this thread neither. Both of these rhythmless bullshit groups are worse than The Spice Girls.

Just saying.

daaamn how u gonna put Total out there like that. You really don't like them broads, do you

Total and Beyonce's Child > The Spice Girls.

Extremely obscure, but I've mentioned her here over the years. Great talent! I

She wanted to do a Rock/Funk album but Atlantic wasn't having that.

trueiopian said:

Total and Beyonce's Child > The Spice Girls.

Cinnie said:

TonyVanDam said:

If that's how you want it, then Total & Destiny's Child should never be mention in this thread neither. Both of these rhythmless bullshit groups are worse than The Spice Girls.

Just saying.

daaamn how u gonna put Total out there like that. You really don't like them broads, do you

Total = TLC rip-offs

rialb said:

Harlepolis said:

I'm crystal clear.

I said that Roberta Kelly threw a fit because of Trey Songs when he himself copied Aaron.

And the "singing ability" bit to remind you that we're talking about "singing" not "careers/charts".

Can you elaborate on what R. Kelly said about Trey Songz?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...vrjN19tRlc

Good song from Gary

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This is basically my childhood... you know in Cyprus R&B wasn't that popular back then so me and my friends we had found that horribly bad dirty bar in the middle of nowhere which used to play most of those stuff... Actually I got kinda sentimental now remembering all that. Hard to believe I can't stand what is called R&B now

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trueiopian said:

NastradumasKid said:

Spoken like a true R Kelly stan.

I'm not a stan but I'm sure you are LMAO!

Ummm...yeah...in your dreams sweety.

TonyVanDam said:

RebirthOfCool said:

(ahem) AGAIN - Anybody mentioning that wackass group of talentless hoes known as the Spice Girls as R&B, should get an immediate 2 week ban and a mandatory screen name change. Is that clear enough now?

If that's how you want it, then Total & Destiny's Child should never be mention in this thread neither. Both of these rhythmless bullshit groups are worse than The Spice Girls.

Just saying.

YOU don't even believe that!

Harlepolis said:

Extremely obscure, but I've mentioned her here over the years. Great talent! I

She wanted to do a Rock/Funk album but Atlantic wasn't having that.

I actually have her CD.

..you got a lot of class and good taste...sing it Gerald..

93-97 were my H.S. years so the 90's were my era, here's some of my cuts from that era:

Wu-tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' to F**k Wit - Wu-Tang

I Got Five On It - Luniz

93 Til Infinity - Sons Of Mischief

Big Poppa - Biggie

Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison

It Ain't Hard To Tell - Nas

Playas In Da Hood - Donnell Jones

Survival Of The Fittest - Mobb Deep

Hip Hop Horay - Naughty By Nature

You're The One - SWV

Can't You See - Total

Feenin' - Jodeci

You're All I Need(Bad Boy Remix) - Meth & Mary J

This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan

Pink Cookies (Remix) - LL Cool J

Really Doe - Ice Cube

Woo Hah - Busta

One More Chance (Stay With Me Remix) - Biggie

Whutcha Want - Nine

Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka - The Fab 5

Players Anthem - Junior Mafia

The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World - Keith Murray

Freak Like Me - Adina Howard

1,2 Pass It - D.I.T.C. (Diggin' In The Crates)

Put It On - Big L

and soooooooooo many more lol!!

RebirthOfCool said:

TonyVanDam said:

If that's how you want it, then Total & Destiny's Child should never be mention in this thread neither. Both of these rhythmless bullshit groups are worse than The Spice Girls.

Just saying.

YOU don't even believe that!

CORRECTION: You are the one that do NOT want to believe that THIS black man finds the few r&b driven tracks by The Spice Girls more soulful than Total or Destiny's Child.

Keep in mind that I was born within the 1970's, NOT the mid to late 1980's like some orgers here that miss the 1990's so much that they can put up with OR even make excuse for below average tracks from the 1990's.

Therefore, when I say all of the tracks by Total & most of the tracks by Destiny's Child are "rhythmless bullshit" I meant it! Period. Point blank. End of.

As far as the Spice Girls go, I only can speak on where I'm from (Wesy Philly like the Fresh Prince BTW, LOL!), and the Spice Girls were classified as straight up Pop, they got no play on our R&B stations here, not even when the DJ's would come in and mix.

The only way you would hear a Spice Girls cut was if you tuned into our pop stations, who ran them to death.

Garfield(Shai) and Allen(Troop) were FOINE back in the day!

Too bad I was too young for them then. Where can I find those type of guys that are my age?

Thanks for the memories folks!

Abdul said:

As far as the Spice Girls go, I only can speak on where I'm from (Wesy Philly like the Fresh Prince BTW, LOL!), and the Spice Girls were classified as straight up Pop, they got no play on our R&B stations here, not even when the DJ's would come in and mix.

The only way you would hear a Spice Girls cut was if you tuned into our pop stations, who ran them to death.

The Spice Girls were definitely not R&B although Say You'll Be There, Spice Up Your Life and Viva Forever are better than anything Total ever did

jiorjios said:

The Spice Girls were definitely not R&B although Say You'll Be There, Spice Up Your Life and Viva Forever are better than anything Total ever did

I'll take Can't you See and No One Else over anything the Spice Girls did, but then again I'm more of an R&B/Hip Hop fan then Pop so maybe I'm biased lol!!

jiorjios said:

Abdul said:

As far as the Spice Girls go, I only can speak on where I'm from (Wesy Philly like the Fresh Prince BTW, LOL!), and the Spice Girls were classified as straight up Pop, they got no play on our R&B stations here, not even when the DJ's would come in and mix.

The only way you would hear a Spice Girls cut was if you tuned into our pop stations, who ran them to death.

The Spice Girls were definitely not R&B although Say You'll Be There, Spice Up Your Life and Viva Forever are better than anything Total ever did

Not a Total fan but Trippin was definitely better than anything i've ever heard

from the Spice Girls.

Abdul said:

jiorjios said:

The Spice Girls were definitely not R&B although Say You'll Be There, Spice Up Your Life and Viva Forever are better than anything Total ever did

I'll take Can't you See and No One Else over anything the Spice Girls did, but then again I'm more of an R&B/Hip Hop fan then Pop so maybe I'm biased lol!!

Well me too just I never liked Total... didn't like the Spice Girls either but at least they were fun... by the way how did this thread ended up about the Spice Girls in the first place?

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jiorjios said:

Well me too just I never liked Total... didn't like the Spice Girls either but at least they were fun... by the way how did this thread ended up about the Spice Girls in the first place?

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TonyVan mentioned them in a 90's R&B thread,

While most of this makes me nostalgic, little of it has actually held up or is still listenable to me today.
Though I can still dig some songs by Portrait, Intro, Lo Key, and yeah Jon B.

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SING IT!!!

John Pagano!!!!

FIVE STAR!!!

ETERNAL!!

>>>>>>> http://prince.org/msg/8/339738

i'd like to add......

SIMPLY RED

MICA PARIS

GEORGE MICHAEL

........ r&b, pop, soul...whatever.

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Abdul said:

jiorjios said:

Well me too just I never liked Total... didn't like the Spice Girls either but at least they were fun... by the way how did this thread ended up about the Spice Girls in the first place?

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TonyVan mentioned them in a 90's R&B thread,

I wouldn't call them R&B but 'Holler' was clearly an R&B song. 'Say You'll Be There' was R&B-influenced pop/dance

jiorjios said:

'Holler' was clearly an R&B song. 'Say You'll Be There' was R&B-influenced pop/dance

Is it me or do all kind of dramas start everytime a non-black artist is mentioned?

B in R&B doesn't stand for Black as far as I'm concerned

rialb said:

95-98 were my high school years so I have a lot of fond memories of some of the big R & B hits of that era. Off the top of my head "I Believe I Can Fly," "Too Close" and "The Boy Is Mine" are a few.

Exactly. 96-00 were my high school years and most important my middle school years 93-96 featured some great 90's R&B. I will forever have fond memories that pop up in my brain whenever I hear 90's R&B. This is the last decade of R&B that featured an abundance of artists that possessed true talent. Brownstone, SWV, EnVogue, Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo, Jagged Edge, Next, Dru Hill, Jon B., Vanessa Williams, Total, Lisa Fischer, Zhan'e, Tony Toni Tone, Mark Morrison, Usher (back before his music turned to shit), Jade, etc. I could go on and on.

And the videos were so exciting and vibrant back then.

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