Has R&B fallen off?

[flaminghetero]

Sticks and stones baby, sticks and stones. Real men walk away.

They walk away and get hit with a heavy ash tray or shot in the back.

Real men BACK AWAY.:smt023

 

[flaminghetero]

Yup, they hurt like a muthafucka.

Also, I'm wondering what "real women" do if they get hit. Will it be a double standard?

Uh oh..

 

[GFunk]

They walk away and get hit with a heavy ash tray or shot in the back.

Real men BACK AWAY.:smt023

 

[goodlove]

If Hip-Hop is dead, did R&B fall of a cliff? Just listening to Usher's new album and i have to say it sucks bad. Coming up, we had R.Kelly, Maxwell, Ginuwine and D'Angelo. Now what do we have? A half rate Usher and Chris "Second Round Knockout" Brown. The female acts aren't that much better either. Is it me or am i just being too snobbish?

naw man it did not fall off it plumbed off the side of a cliff. hell they think Drake is nice. I heard his latest song "find your love" and it sucks soooo bad

 

[pettyofficerj]

naw man it did not fall off it plumbed off the side of a cliff. hell they think Drake is nice. I heard his latest song "find your love" and it sucks soooo bad

I liked his 'Forever' mix with Em

'Last name Ever, first name Greatest'

'got me faded off the Brown, Nino'

I liked his word play and reference to New Jack City

 

[flaminghetero]

I'm serious..you better not turn your back to a pissed-off woman.

 

[GFunk]

I'm serious..you better not turn your back to a pissed-off woman.

I don't plan to. I'm paranoid by nature. I'm one who will stare straight at a person when walking away. I don't want no bullshit happening.

 

[botoan]

We were just discussing this in the FUNK thread, how even though it was heavily instrumentally based, their voices back then were also quality.

You don't find that today. There really isn't a good male soul singer out right now. I can't say that about female R & B because there is. I like Ledesi, J-Hud, Angie Stone, but even that list isn't long. I think you may be right, Esoterik.

You know most of the great black singers and musicians even the old bluesmen came from the black church. I wonder if the fact that many black men have left the black church has had something to do with it. I remember going to church concerts when I was a kid and those gospel back up bands may have been better than most 'professional' groups. The men where great singers back then. I know a quite a few that died to young. A few that had substance abuse issues (slow suicide), others victims of violence. Some had health problems such as my cousin and best friend that lead to his passing when we were just 21, he was a great singer and musician. For some it was alienation like for myself. I posted those reasons in another post.