Ginuwine's "Last Chance"

JamalSpunky said:
Or Marvin...or Otis...or Sam...or Don (Hathaway)...or Bobby (Womack)...or Al...or Barry...or Lou...or James...or Smokey....or Ray

Hell, I miss MJ at this point. And I'll take some corny "Dancing on the Ceiling" by Lionel Ritchie right now too. I'm desperate.

Terence Trent D'Arby is a god compared to the current crop for goodness sakes.

And give me some more diversity with guys like Lenny and Corey Glover (Living Colour), Jimi, Darius Rucker, Eagle Eye Cherry, Seal, Ben Harper, Roland Giftetc.

Not a damn Rick James in sight.

Shit, how about someone as relatively insignificant as Jesse Johnson. I may have been too young to appreciate at the time but I'l take this song over anything that Chris Brown ever did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_V2cFpi1o


Too bad D'Angelo fucked up his career.

Mawell's "Urban Hang Suite" was perhaps the ebst R&B album of the 90s. Its a shame he went...uh...all weird.

Craig David had a D'Arby-like quality to his work and its a shame that more American producers didn't reach out and work with him.


The one dude I could not stand? Luther. :-(
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Dude, you forgot Curtis.

Wha? You don't like Luther?
 
Moskvichka said:
:grin: Because girls like them...
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True. If dudes wanna get a party crackin' and get up on some honeys, they gotta break out the top 40 rap mix. Nothing too out of date. The song has to be hot, because if it's more than half a year old, it's considered "old school". There's kids today saying lil wayne's "the carter" is old school. Man, they don't know what they are talking about.:rolleyes:
 
JamalSpunky said:
Shit, how about someone as relatively insignificant as Jesse Johnson. I
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Jesse Johnson did his thing, he wasn't great but not insignificant, and he wrote and produced one of my favorite tunes from the 80's. Another chick they thought was black...

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Brotha Ajax said:
That too. I'm wonder how many videos will take place in their hood, with their boys from their block and the video hos, with money falling, rented cars with video hos dancing around them, and blingin' chains being pushed through the camera lenses so we can see, because we didn't get a good 50 second look before. Oh, and you can't forget the Cristal/Remy/Hennessey/any other expensive liquor them corny ass rappers love drinking.
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You said it all, sir. Rock videos in the late 80s were stuck in a rut too with all those hairspray bands and their bimbos dancing around poles. But after a couple of years that fad was over. Rap has ben stuck in the same videos pattern for about 15 years. Enough already.
 
Malik True said:
Jesse Johnson did his thing, he wasn't great but not insignificant, and he wrote and produced one of my favorite tunes from the 80's. Another chick they thought was black...

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Hey, don't get me wrong. I like Jesse's work. But unfortunately to those covering the industry, working in the industry and buying music spoonfed by the industry, his work is almost forgotten.
 
Many of the rappers today are businessmen/promoters first and artists second. You can tell when someone is really a "musician" or poet versus simply a "rapper"....all the great rappers/R&B singers were talented at telling stories to compelling beats and music. Rappers (considering the times we live in) are not angry enough. They display "aggression" when it comes to their money and women but not when it comes to all of the social ills that plague our world.
 
Brotha Ajax said:
Damn. I remember "Pony" was my shit back in 2nd grade. And "So Anxious" was blowing the hell up on The Box back in the day. Eh, everybody falls off sooner or later.
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Yeah I remember that too. Every girl I knew liked that song back then lol

Malik True said:
The real reason why there aren't multiple R&B stars is because R&B has taken a back seat to C-rap music. As far as I am concerned most rap today is complete trash for the most part. I know a few heads here are into Wayne, that's ok you can have him, he's barely mediocre but that's just me. I'll peek back at rap when it returns to this......

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Or............

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Rap.........SUCKS today
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My older bro looks like CL Smooth with glasses :cool:
 
TheChosenOne said:
Many of the rappers today are businessmen/promoters first and artists second. You can tell when someone is really a "musician" or poet versus simply a "rapper"....all the great rappers/R&B singers were talented at telling stories to compelling beats and music. Rappers (considering the times we live in) are not angry enough. They display "aggression" when it comes to their money and women but not when it comes to all of the social ills that plague our world.
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I don't care if they are angry or happy. I don't care if they take a social stand or not. I just care about the art itself and I find the vast majority of hip-hop lacking. To be fair virtually every genre is lacking. But if I had a choice of supporting a good rapper or supporting a good singer/songwriter/musician I'm gonna go with the latter. I just am sick of the fact that most black men are kept in the hip-hop box in the music business.
 
I've always been a fan of Genuine, dude had some nice albums...except the very last album. Homeboy fell-off w/out Timbaland & Missy producing and writing for him.


...as far as today, I'm a bit of an old-head myself when it comes to R&B. However, I think The Dream breaks-out of the typical mold. He seems to bend music in a very original direction, with clear influences of Prince and even Ready for the World....interested in seeing what he does next.
 
You forgot Teddy P., DeBarge, Surface, Shalamar, The Whispers, The Deele (w/Babyface), Rockwell, Willie Hutch and a list of others I can't think of right now.
 
Intriguedone said:
I've always been a fan of Genuine, dude had some nice albums...except the very last album. Homeboy fell-off w/out Timbaland & Missy producing and writing for him.


...as far as today, I'm a bit of an old-head myself when it comes to R&B. However, I think The Dream breaks-out of the typical mold. He seems to bend music in a very original direction, with clear influences of Prince and even Ready for the World....interested in seeing what he does next.
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The Dream writes his best material for female singers IMO. And as a performer you kind of look at him and its hard to take him seriously. Dreeses like an 80s bboy.
 
Intriguedone said:
I've always been a fan of Genuine, dude had some nice albums...except the very last album. Homeboy fell-off w/out Timbaland & Missy producing and writing for him.


...as far as today, I'm a bit of an old-head myself when it comes to R&B. However, I think The Dream breaks-out of the typical mold. He seems to bend music in a very original direction, with clear influences of Prince and even Ready for the World....interested in seeing what he does next.
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G-wine was like a female version of Alliyah...he just couldn't get that big mainstream break like Usher and Kellz got.By that 4th album, the Sr., came around...knucklehead was borrowing Kellz 's old shit(Hell Yeah) and too many people on his album.
 
Brotha Ajax said:
Damn. I remember "Pony" was my shit back in 2nd grade. And "So Anxious" was blowing the hell up on The Box back in the day. Eh, everybody falls off sooner or later.
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I used to love it too. Now that I am reminded of it I downloaded it for my ipod. On another board I visit this song was one of the top songs that people mentioned for songs they like to do it to. :smt042
 
JamalSpunky said:
The Dream writes his best material for female singers IMO. And as a performer you kind of look at him and its hard to take him seriously. Dreeses like an 80s bboy.
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Perhaps that's valid. However, his own albums show a great deal of creativity and thinking 'outside-the-box'. I dig it.

I take him serious enough. Although I don't dress like him, I like dudes swag.
 
I got his album "A man's thoughts" including Last chance. I've always liked his music better than Ushers and couldnt' wait for a new album and here it is.I love it :)
 
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