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Is Real R&B Still Around?

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Don Breezio:
i hear people all the time saying things like "real R&B isnt around anymore...now its all beyonce and b2k and r. kelly"....

well....since when is that not real R&B? just because it gets more radio play? i'll be the first to admit i hate beyonce and everything about her, her voice, her looks (i personally think shes not that great looking), and her replay value (none). but that doesnt mean its not real R&B...just because i dont like it....im sure there were tons of people who didnt like keith sweat or jodeci...but nobody will ever say they werent real R&B.

and b2k...why are they not real R&B? just because theyre all teens? seriously listen to their lyrics...they are exactly the same as every other R&B act ever out whether it be r. kelly, musiq soulchild, or marvin gaye...the lyrics really arent any different. people hate on them because they are young. i personally like b2k...yeah the amount of radio play they get is annoying but they get annoyign a lot less fast than most of the shit on the radio.

some people say there is NO real R&B anymore...so since when do R. Kelly, Jagged Edge, Maxwell, Marques Houston, Frankie J, TQ, Case, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Usher, Jaheim, One Twelve, Ray J, Brandy, Monica, Montell Jordan, The Isley Brothers, and countless others not count as real R&B?

i know a lot of people on this forum either wont read this because they dont care or they just dont like R&B...but imo R&B is the best kind of music out there so hopefully any other R&B heads will feel me on this. but seriously can you name one thing about any of the so called "Fake R&B Artists" out there that actually makes them fake?

Throwback:
i hate it that B2K act real 'ghetto' but they've never seen a ghetto i think..

but B2K isn't R&B for me, it's pop. so is beyonce.

On The Edge of Insanity:
Well I would split most of the artists you mentioned into soul and rnb.

I would consider R Kelly, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Jaheim, The Isley Brothers as soul artists. This is sort of stuff I like to listen to.

I personally think that the rest of them that you mentioned don't have enough soulfulness to be considered soul artists, and they are what I consider to be RnB. They will have the odd dope track, but I wouldn't ever buy one of their albums (ok, so I got TQ and Montell's first albums, but thats the g funk influence).

So to answer your question RnB is still around in large quantities, but Soul isn't as much as I think it should be.

West C. Connected:
Mary J. still around. 8)

Don Dolla:
mayne, i can sum rnb up in 1 word. "Aaliyah" if she was still alive RnB would still be as hot...

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