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Essence’s 50 Most Powerful R&B Artists of All Time
1. Aretha Franklin
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Will Smith and Rihanna are included. But no Mariah? 
Timbaland is above ray charles , sam cooke , marvin gaye donny hathaway, r kelly and stevie wonder, then you know this joke is a list . He is a beat maker and an avarage rapper | |
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KICK ME IN THE BALLS AND SET ME ON FIRE
This was a disgusting list, idc if it's just some list some made i mean Beyonce top 10?
James Brown & Stevoe not in the top 10? SHIT I will take Marvin Gaye, Stevie, Prince, Sade, Chaka Kahn over Michael Jackson anyday..
and Rihanna number 11?
And yes i agree Mariah deserves to be on the list... Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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Aretha deserves her spot.
Marvin Gaye should have been higher on the list! TOP 5 if you ask me. James Brown as well. What the hell
And Beyonce top 10? Bullshit.
What was the criteria for the list btw I wonder? It says powerful afterall, not best, but I don't understand how they compiled this at all. Beyonce should not be in the top 10. These people must be smoking.
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I don't get it either. Sometimes I think by powerful, with these lists, they mean influence. idk | |
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Rihanna isn't an R&B artist at all. Just because you're black doesn't make you Rhythm & Blues. Same thing with Will Smith. Um...since when was he a singer?
And where's Mariah? | |
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No Rick James or Mariah Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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Kind of bullshit is this.
Do they even know what "powerfull" means? If they do, they'd know JB would top this list. PRINCE: Always and Forever
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Is this a joke?
Why is Lauryn Hill, D' Angelo, Rihanna, Timbaland, P Diddy and Will Smith on the list? Where are The Temptations? This list is stupid. [Edited 6/25/11 13:17pm] | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Janet Jackson ahead of Sam Cooke? No one saw anything wrong with that?!
I can't even begin to comprehend what they used as criteria for the list. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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Below average rapper, and i'm a fan of his work, pre-2008 at least. | |
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I hate lists but this one takes the piece of cake especially with some of the top twenty picks. [Edited 6/25/11 14:19pm] | |
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you, Essence.
Influence? Shit, Marvin and Sam influenced the ones at the top ten for chrissakes! | |
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And am I seeing a typo? Marvin's included twice (19 and 36). What? | |
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This list is bullsh*t. However, I like the fact that they recognized Marvin Gaye was so damn bad that he had to be listed twice
FYI - Marvin would be #1 on my list. | |
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Don't mind who's number-one because Aretha is always up there but uh... | |
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Puffy Bitch is in that list. 
Anway, they should have made a list of most influential R&B artists of all time, but they probably would have screwed that list up, too. I'm sick and tired of the Prince fans being sick and tired of the Prince fans that are sick and tired! | |
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This list is a complete joke. Period. Way too many flaws in the positions and way too many "greater" folks still overlooked. I think I can make a list of people who deserves to quickly be omitted. But this really doesn't surprise me one bit. Shame! Check me out and add me on:
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So true! didn't even notice that... there are TO many thing's wrong with this list lol Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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Aretha or Marvin are always number 1
But really no one noticed Rick James not on there? i know he KILLED the R&B charts in the 80's.... i think Kool & The Gang should get a mention to Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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No En Vogue? =( | |
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What exactly is "powerful"? When  go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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James Brown 22 and Beyonce Knowles 6.
This fall in the category of....
People who don't know their assholes from holes in the ground.
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Are my eyes deceiving me? What the hell is Mary J Blige doing at #3? Beyonce at # 6? Maxwell at #9? Lauryn Hill at #10? Rhianna at #11?
Essence is a Black women magazine, and if these were Black women who put this list together, as a Black man, I'm both scared and mad as hell because this is ignorance at it's finest. | |
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Exactly. THAT list is a f***ing joke. | |
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Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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That alone is ludicrous. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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