R&B - General Genre Discussion

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Crayons

I thought it would be good to have a thread to talk about R&B in general, past R&B and current artists and releases who might not warrant a thread on their own.

Releases in the next few months include:

Melanie Fiona - The MF Life (February 7th)
Singles: Gone And Never Coming Back, 4AM

Lloyd - King Of Hearts (UK release March 5th)
Singles: Lay It Down, Cupid, Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)

Loick Essien - Identity (March 5th)
Singles: Stuttering, How We Roll, Me Without You

Monica - New Life (March 6th)
Singles: Anything (To Find You), Until It's Gone

Chris Brown - Fortune (expected sometime in March)
Singles: Strip, One Of Those Nights (pop single expected 31st January, apparently produced by William Orbit)

...and Brandy, R. Kelly, Ashanti, Trey Songz, Ciara, Usher, Alicia Keys, Mario, Toni Braxton, Miguel, Janelle Monae and SWV are all expected to release albums at some point this year.

I hope they all do end up releasing, last year was a bit dry. The only great albums from last year are F.A.M.E., Late Nights & Early Mornings, Good For The Soul and My Life II.

Also, new British acts are really exciting at the moment like Tanya Lacey, L Marshall and Angel. L Marshall's mixtape and Angel's EP are very well produced.
 
Coping With Senility

Coping With Senility

Crayons said:
The only great albums from last year are F.A.M.E., Late Nights & Early Mornings, Good For The Soul and My Life II.
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Didn't think much of any of these, except Late Nights & Early Mornings.

There were much better r&b albums, '4' being the obvious standout as well as Dawn Richard's mixtape, Nikkiya's mixtape, Jhene Aiko's mixtape, and albums from Anthony Hamilton, Raphael Saadiq, Anthony David and Goapele.

Brandy and Ciara are probably my 2 most anticipated of the year (as well as Cassie and Teedra Moses, just like every other fucking year where they still haven't released their follow-ups).
 
IAmRockstar

IAmRockstar

I'm looking forward to Solange, Ashanti, Brandy and Tamia albums the most!

Although I love 'SMFU' by Dawn Richards a lot, sounds like it could have been on 'Human' by Brandy.
 
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Crayons

Coping With Senility said:
There were much better r&b albums, '4' being the obvious standout as well as Dawn Richard's mixtape, Nikkiya's mixtape, Jhene Aiko's mixtape, and albums from Anthony Hamilton, Raphael Saadiq, Anthony David and Goapele.
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I totally forgot about Raphael Saadiq! It was so different to what I am used to and took me a while to get into it but it's an amazing album. I need to check out his older stuff.
 
AllStar7

AllStar7

I LOVE 90's R&B and Brandy is my absolute favorite artist.

I also like Babyface, Usher, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Destiny's Child, Boy II Men, Monica, TLC, R. Kelly, Aaliyah, En Vogue, Jon B., Mya and SWV.
 
Blob

Blob

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^Hellllll yes. Been loving that since it came out. Melanie is great.
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She is indeed!

I'm glad this thread is here, it'll be nice to expand my horizons a bit and I love some of the stuff mentioned here already.
 
Mr.Arroz

Mr.Arroz

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Yes! Finally some collective R&B appreciation. I'm actually gonna jack some of these links and have a field day, when I'm done, I wanna contribute! Yeeeeee
 
DarkSacoura

DarkSacoura

Jhene Aiko has some fantastic songs. Someone recommended I check out her mixtape way back when it came out, I downloaded it and never listened to it. 'Stranger' is absolutely stunning and 'You Vs. Them' and 'Higher' are very good. Her voice is a lot like Cassie's except actually strong (not to slate Cassie though!).

She really adopted the Drake/ Weeknd/ etc. sound well, and it sounds so good with her voice. I hope she classes it up with her material this year and sticks to songs like 'Stranger', because some of the mixtape verged to close to basic and "ghetto" sounding.

But yeah, listen to this if you haven't, it's so so so good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZMhmW9K5o
 
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