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Is Real R&B Still Around?
Don Breezio:
lmao your first comment only works towards some people. some people dont like the soulful sound. like a dude i was talkin to last night...he likes what you would call R&B and hates what you would call Soul. saying no matter how much he's played on the radio he'd still be amazing is straight up dumb and you know that. lucy pearl got annoying as fuck after awhile, so did toni tony tone back in the day. if raphael saadiq put out a really hot single people would say the same shit about him.
CRAFTY:
--- Quote from: Waitin For The DJ on February 26, 2004, 04:54:13 AM ---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.
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My thoughts exactly 8)
On The Edge of Insanity:
--- Quote from: L to the U to the K to the E on February 27, 2004, 10:47:26 AM ---lmao your first comment only works towards some people. some people dont like the soulful sound. like a dude i was talkin to last night...he likes what you would call R&B and hates what you would call Soul. saying no matter how much he's played on the radio he'd still be amazing is straight up dumb and you know that. lucy pearl got annoying as fuck after awhile, so did toni tony tone back in the day. if raphael saadiq put out a really hot single people would say the same shit about him.
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No, saying he'd be amazing no matter how much radio play he got isn't dumb, because its true, if the single was soulful then I'd be pleased no matter how much love it got.
Lucy Pearl didn't get annoying either because they had soul, stuff which is rnb to me has no replay value at all, good for clubs maybe, but not for constant listening. Soulful artists have something special in their voices which sets them apart from rnb artists and gives them much more replay value.
Nima - Dubcnn.com:
--- Quote from: SGV(Check The Sig) on February 26, 2004, 01:08:38 PM ---Artists like Floetry, Alicia Keys, Goapele, Anthony Hamilton, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Musiq, etc. They bring back the essence of Soul music. When I hear people like Ray J, Jagged Edge, B2K, Marques Houston, R.Kelly(now at least) etc. they don't really keep that "Soul essence." It's more Hip Hop influenced, which to me, is rather lame. Catchy, but lame.
As fro B2K being similar to White Pop acts. Lyric wise, of course. They sing about love etc. But, it's their style(harmonies etc.) and beats. I mean, you can tell the difference between a B2K beat and say N*Sync.
An artist like Frankie J. He was Justin Timberlake before Justin Timberlake. He used to make Latin Pop, but now is considered R & B.
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^^^word
Don Breezio:
lmao..,.you know damn well if they played raphael saadiq 1000 times a day and he had 4 million 12 year old girls screaming for him all over the place people woudl say "damn man saadiq is wack...remember back when he was a soul singer"....people put a double standard on artists and its sad.
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