Rolling R&B 2016

Alright, let's get this going.
I'm loving this new PJ song. Her Walking Around Pools EP was one of my fave 2015 releases.

https://soundcloud.com/justpeej/tell-me

albums possibly due out this year:
Frank Ocean (?), Usher (??), Maxwell (????????), Beyonce, Tinashe, K. Michelle, Trey Songz, Dawn Richard, KING, Tory Lanez, The-Dream, Sevyn Streeter, Jidenna, Robin Thicke, Omarion, Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, Alicia Keys, Elle Varner, Kelly Rowland, Melanie Fiona

Do any of those have dates yet? I'm struggling to find upcoming release dates for 2016 rap and r&b atm.

the king album is out 2/6.

yeah KING is i think the only one with a release date. and only about half of them have a single out and/or an announced title.

a LOT of long-delayed R&B albums got quietly tossed out in December, as usual (Jeremih, R. Kelly, Monica, Babyface, August Alsina, Eric Bellinger) so i'm still processing all that stuff.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
^ will start updating in early February

also i need to buy tickets to the KING album release party in NYC, anybody going to that?

which, now that i have my tickets, i don't mind linking to
http://lpr.com/lpr_events/king-february-5th-2016/

There's new Brandy out. Retro but raw:

https://soundcloud.com/4everbrandy/beggin-pleadin

the theme song to her new sitcom is way better than that imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2QsGzCQ9Q

also i need to buy tickets to the KING album release party in NYC, anybody going to that?

me i think! haven't bought tickets yet though

damn that is a good theme song

right!?

also Estelle WENT IN on the theme song for We Bare Bears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNQZkIJURZc

ha, i didn't realize that was estelle but yeah it DOES sound like her

new fantasia!!! this is really lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeANVMbkxxY

oh yeah this rules

PJ keeps bringing it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW97u-4Aj0I

Also loving the I Don't Belong To You Remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFA71g7euQ

Thoughts on the anderson .paak album, please?
I think I like it a lot but I can't seem to get past his kendrick voice. It's like there's a huge kendrick between me and him.

that fantasia track is so great! man i still love side effects of you so much

FACT - 10 R&B artists to watch in 2016
http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/16/rnb-artists-to-watch-2016/
By Claire Lobenfeld

DΞΔN
dvsn
Kyle Dion
Melissa B.
Nao
PJ
Summertime Stories
Ta-Ha
Tala
WSTRN

Thoughts on the anderson .paak album, please?
I think I like it a lot but I can't seem to get past his kendrick voice. It's like there's a huge kendrick between me and him.

Kendrick's own Drizzy Graham

or whatever the fuck that dude's name was

my theory is that everyone on the last dre album is trash except kendrick

sound

is "DΞΔN" dawn richard or some guy named dean

according to the fact article, he's a 22-year old South Korean singer who's collaborated with Mila J

fucking love the new k michelle single, that key change at the end!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcNZLsBjCr8

new anthony hamilton is as classy as ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxRBi2NNvbg

and there's a new tweet album due in feb; the lead single is very nice, she's quietly been making some lovely-sounding music for the past couple of years, so i'm looking fwd to this in much the same way i'm anticipating king

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xolSwTzSRCY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsn5_zkShGk

found this one quite bewitching. teen plainsong lent an odd sorrow by just the merest touch of acid tabla/gamelan that almost mightve come off black dog 'spanners' or w/e

never really did figure out what the secrete 00s joke was with a kid called trevor jackson marketing himself in the basement jaxx font btw

'rock wit me' not dissimilar to wstrn 'in 2' come to think of it i guess kinda. (s/o to the parochialist i see u)

these are all good ty

really enjoying the new tank album so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmCpNSXzJQ

ugh rtc that song is so dope, what's with the dissonant tones in the background, awesome

"the merest touch of acid tabla/gamelan" is wonderful. Song's fine too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD9__ElDow

about as much rnb as it is anything else. just tuff enough to swerve the twee

'rock wit me' producer's career so undistinguished he prob did it by accident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Major

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYBegdhWis

:D

How do you guys feel about zydeco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKMs_OCPQ7E

this was 2015 but its fire imho....sorry if i missed it being posted earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3-XLCv2WtQ

also digging jacquees - know you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDkVNRcAT4

now that i realized that the xp guy was this dude im immediately embarrassed...umm lets just pretend its a trey songz solo jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5082NM1H-io

jacquees tape is superb. most legit r&b debut since idek when

male r&b debut i should have said

dunno who's really exec producing him but someone knows exactly what they're doing... so many little 90s refs on the low (and not-low, lol that cover art)

damn this tape is really good

"know you" is great, love "pandora" too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pKC-wQd1A

this tape feels like what a lot of these torey lanez type dudes are trying to do in terms of atmospheric production & melding singing and rapping but with actual musicality underpinning it

idk yeah, maybe, but also not rly? several moments on this literally seem like baby and slim hopped out the phone booth to kidnap usher in 98. without being super retro it carries its modernity very lightly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umeoz-4nBqU

i don't disagree that u shouldnt still slowly place your jeremih album in the trashcan after listening to this

more like place your bryson tiller in the trashcan imo

have some ambition

without being super retro it carries its modernity very lightly

you've put it poetically as always

have some ambition also

i mean we all agree that bryson tiller is horrible, the most horrible, and we weep bitterly for society's youth

my point was more that jeremih's, which is an album i like somewhat, suddenly sounds p dumb and juvenile next to this cos of the way it collapses any real sense of trends and times and waves by virtue of realness

I like the jeremih. It's a flop so it's hard for me to be concerned about those things you've said that I'm not sure I wrap my head around, whereas Bryson filler is selling 30k/week and becoming a legit star/phenom. Also I think jacquees' approach to vibe is gleaned from a more tiller-sequel 90s infatuation (via drake)

Um but here's a funny thing I found out, much of the jacquees is written by (and on "r&b gentleman" produced by) fortebowie, who Ethan Padgett put me onto on his 2011 year end list and who I posted on fad3r back in the day. As a solo artist he ended up roped into a rough label situation involving the dudes responsible for both Trinidad James & rich homie quan's um situations. But he wrote a bunch of the records on here

That's good to hear. His Gucci Mane song was pretty good!

i guess i can hear where Jacqueesy F. Baby's tape would sound great if i enjoyed his froggy lil Pleasure P voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3d6GntKbk

dont like the zayn

however i like this duo from LA
https://soundcloud.com/jakeandpapa/make-em-say-feat-jay-305-prod-ken-nana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Fh1SkjXPQ

enjoying this, bouncy and hooky

Thought I'd pop in for more information on:

Alexandria - Promise EP
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3311423568_10.jpg

But it doesn't seem to have attracted notice. Its the sort of glitchy R&B I enjoy.

the dreezy is a rap song

it's almost entirely sung and not having known who dreezy is beforehand i failed to realize she's mainly a rapper, soz

let's not pretend mainstream r&b and rap lately feature radically different production styles anyway

It's an r&b song to me.
The Anderson Paak is actually a rap album, but no one is talking about it as such.

Playlist for the thread is now up to date with what's up on Spotify; will check back in a month.
ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

could u not

late as usual but really really loving the jacquees tape mentioned up thread. i'm a corny fuck so the cameo sample warmed me.

Thoughts on the anderson .paak album, please?
I think I like it a lot but I can't seem to get past his kendrick voice. It's like there's a huge kendrick between me and him.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, January 15, 2016 5:33 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he sounds more like q tip than drick. i like the new album. wouldst say its a hip hop album tho idk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpLW6zvlVQ

this could be way better without timbaland's voice and if he had gave more space for mila j to shine.

new track by Tayá (17 year old singer from Liverpool)

riyl: Tinashe

Tayá - Sweet Waste of Time
https://soundcloud.com/taya/sweet-waste-of-time/s-gUang

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qqdxFuMQgMQXuAA7Qskdg

looking at the spotify stats it looks like Taya still isn't on Spotify USA, She is signed to Atlantic Records UK (part of Warners)

more info:
Tayá drops sublime R&B single “Sweet Waste Of Time” produced by AlunaGeorge’s George Reid
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/taya-drops-sublime-rb-single-sweet-waste-of-time-produced-by-alunageorge

Several xposts...

I love that Alexandria EP. Was coming here to post it, actually! Imo it builds strength as it progresses, with Pour as the pinnacle. Glitchy R&B is the best. She's on the same label as Abra too and there's a slight correlation there in vocal dreaminess to my mind.

OMG SURPRISE K MICHELLE ALBUM NEXT WEEK

it's called more issues than vogue!

the album cover looks like this!

http://i2.wp.com/www.xclusivejams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/6010f7ff0562e60d9f34d792fb3afbcd.jpg?w=474

so hyped

yeah, i am pretty excited by that information
BIPOLAR
THOT
FAKE BOOTY

I want to poll the words on this artwork already

BJ the Chicago Kid album streaming at NPR

In My Mind (Tracklisting)

1. Intro
2. Man Down (Feat. Buddy & Constantine)
3. Church (Feat. Chance The Rapper & Buddy)
4. Love Inside (Feat. Isabella)
5. The Resume (Feat. Big K.R.I.T.)
6. Shine
7. Wait Til the Morning (Feat. Isa)
8. Heart Crush
9. Jeremiah/World Needs More Love (Feat. Eric Ingram)
10. The New Cupid (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)
11. Woman’s World
12. Crazy
13. Home
14. Falling on My Face
15. Turnin’ Me Up

Got into pineapple now-laters a few years back in a big way; would love to see him hit.

i love this shamelessly 90s/new jack track out of LA

https://soundcloud.com/cheetahbay/all-night-produced-by-jamma-dee

had a good time listening to the producer's soundcloud page, nice stretched out 90's r&b edits https://soundcloud.com/jamma-dee/recognize

This has probably been posted before but I really like it

https://soundcloud.com/justpeej/tell-me

Kind of want to hear some remixes tho

https://soundcloud.com/justpeej/wishlist

This one reminds me, the most recent k camp tape is very very good

Don't know anything about her but this seems pretty good https://soundcloud.com/danisinghmusic/sets/dani-singh-disclosure-ep

OK i ended up enjoying it the first time i heard it & not really going back to it

better luck with this i think, though https://soundcloud.com/jarreauvandal/nobody-else-feat-brasstracks-and-niya-wells

the new mya album is really nice!

especially

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgmw82NkGmk

and she repurposes the very underrated "ponytail" on the outro <3

Reading in the Washington Post about women throwing their bras onstage at Bryson Tiller, at his recent show near DC. I don't get it

They like his music and want to have his baby?

I guess so

Don't know anything about her but this seems pretty good https://soundcloud.com/danisinghmusic/sets/dani-singh-disclosure-ep

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:49 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

i like this a lot. it's very bread-and-butter but this is radio-level songwriting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDNFIH-Gy2Q

ill admit it, I like Bryson tiller.. would've liked to go to the dc show to meet or @ least ogle bra-less women

i don't quite get why he's become this beacon of hate on twitter

his singles are fine!

he's only a beacon of hate in the sense that a few people have noticed how absurdly overrated he is by a lot of young R&B fans

also his tweets are corny and he's a hypebeast, there's an element of territorialism to the backlash

he sounds so much like drake! how can you not find that annoying

am i wrong though about the territorialism

i can fetishize and cop my style from drake but i draw the line at an R&B singer doing that!

i mean, his singles are competent. and it's not a critical backlash as much as it is a self-styled tastemaker backlash, because bryson tiller threatens their very being.

tiller was 16 when so far gone came out, a lot of music is gonna continue to sound like drake lol

that said his singles have been getting exponentially worse

The Tweet and SWV albums are out and almost certainly worth a try.

Playlist is updated for the month; give it a spin.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

The Tweet album is incredible.

yeah it's really, really gorgeous

really like this https://soundcloud.com/gallant/bourbon

he kinda overwrites but in a way i find endearing

my god the tweet album is so good.

i'm really bad at intuiting what makes a proper smash hit but this new keke palmer/jeremih sounds like one to me? immense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaxa53A-uUs

and also to go back to the previous topic of conversation the tweet album really is heavenly, i feel v blessed to have both that and the king album in life in the same two-month span

idk if it's been mentioned in another thread but yuna's new single with usher is really lovely

the GUITARS on the tweet album, my god

The Keke Palmer sounds like a hit in the way Carly Rae Jepsen songs do, and coming from an R&B context it might actually be one. I'm all for it.

As for Tweet, it's amazing to me that she had that sound on Southern Hummingbird, and it sounded fresh back then and at any given point during the 14 (!) years that have passed since then, and it still sounds fantastic now.

yeah I'm loving this Tweet alb, much more than the King one

Here's the Yuna duet with Usher mentioned above, "Crush":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQeMS7yHDhk

(Also, Tweet is 45! Just wow.)

keke palmer song is great - that's maybe the song tinashe needed to launch joyride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2dNpro8S8

K-Major is probably my favorite male rnb artist at the moment. Just love his voice.

yeah late pass but his mixtape from last year is awesome

http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/33381/k-major-category-v.html

Yay, new Sassy Black (of THEESatisfaction) coming out soon. First released track is excellent:

http://sassyblack.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-lame-dates

https://soundcloud.com/syldubenion/evyl-syl-piece-of-you

okay i lol'd when he got to "cause you know i like to eat that BROOOOWWWWWN" "um, maybe you should-" ~~MUSIC SWELLS~~

also
https://soundcloud.com/omarionmmg-1/i-aint-even-done-ft-ghostface-killah-produced-by-knxledge

^new-ish Omarion

Damn this K Major tape is incredible. That guy's voice is so different, and he's got a little bit of Jeremih's inventiveness in his delivery

I like that Omarion track, too, b/c I irrationally like a lot of recent Omarion, but I'm tired of hearing Ghostface over soul music. Time to put Ghostface over trap or something just to see what happens

Yay, new Sassy Black (of THEESatisfaction) coming out soon. First released track is excellent:

http://sassyblack.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-lame-dates

― tangenttangent, Thursday, March 10, 2016 3:46 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard some more of the album and it sounds really good.

'Dadada...Struggle' by Tweet is my new obsession...just sayin...

Anderson .Paak & Free Dadicals' SXSW set is streaming here, though you gotta click on each track of the set list. Starts with a couple of rap songs, but mainly R&B-funk-based. Especially like his singing while drumming, guitarist who knows his blues, Nile Rodgers and Santana, while keeping it concise, as does the bassist, who knows he ain't Jaco and doesn't wannnabe. Good spare-to-layered laptop too. More the sound than the words (or the rapping) for me so far, and occasionally bland anyway, but he and they got it:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/470454098/anderson-paak-the-free-nationals-green-light-live-at-sxsw-2016

Free *Radicals*, that is, sorry!

Although I guess it's also Dadicals re talk of family and use of musical heritage, even work in a bit of "Let's Dance."

Anderson .Paak is the drummer for Free Dadicals

i think i might be the only person on ilm that checks for new partynextdoor songs, i really like this one https://soundcloud.com/partyomo/come-and-see-me-ft-drake

New Anthony Hamilton today

randomly found niykee heaton on the spotify new releases page, never heard her before but liking this bedroom tour playlist record thus far

The Anthony Hamilton record is quite good. Super churchy, super Delfonics-y.

He's gonna be performing on a bill with Fantasia near me, in May. I wanna see that

Playlist is updated for the month.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Tweet album is so amazing

I'm in full on love with the BJ the chi kid album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZdJoWm3cHU

'wait til the morning' is my fav song of the year atm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJAqUJfuzz0

Anybody feeling this Gallant album? Rich, forward-looking R&B with shades of Maxwell and Frank Ocean. Sounds v good and v well crafted, if a little over familiar

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/31/472145212/first-listen-gallant-ology

The Gallant album is gorgeous!

K-Major just did this song for some friends of mine. I think it's amazing but I'm biased of course.

https://soundcloud.com/basmobeats/01-speak-feat-k-major?in=basmobeats/sets/basmo-fam-alene-hjemme

was very impressed with how gorgeous the gallant album sounds, less impressed that after a few listens i can't really recall any hooks, early days yet i guess tho

i'm listening again and was trying to work out what the melody of the "episode" hook reminded me of and it's... "i wanna sex you up"

def a lotta familiar sounds on this one.

not an uncommon groove, I guess, but "bourbon" reminds me a lot of king's "the greatest."

i like the Gallant album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=929ZmjBzyPI

has anyone heard this song before. i myself have not but i am eavesdropping some distant neighbours party ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and these girls are turnt the fuck up screaming along to it? it is from 2013 and has 22 million views lol

oh nice it's fantasia 'no time for it' now, some elite bitch coven over here

i'm secretly singing along with them to 'lose to win' now. my god theyre doing handclaps and everything. this is the best party i've attended in years

what would you beeee, without meeee

into a honey cocaine segment. blimey

Tinashe – Watch Me Work

forgot about this one, even more proof she is the new ci-error wrt fifth element

fifth harmony i mean lol

That Toni Romiti song is impressively low wattage.

right yeah that's what's fascinating, like the style/delivery of the original was completely incidental to the actual underlying anthem they were attuned to and hollering out. real culture tunes like this are the very rarest pokemons

another example i've long thought this about is sizzla 'give me a try' from idk 2003 (actually usually the rihanna version later maybe). like it was always just around in a way nothing to do with what we think of as ~heat~, it wasn't a minor hit that came/went/was remembered, it just became a lowkey standard that everyone knows off by heart with no paper trail whatsoever. and if you play it out now you will shell down any gathering guaranteed

(current party update fwiw: there was a big grime section, lots of krept n conan love, and then some guys came round and the coven lost focus TUT TUT. standard dancehall now mostly, lots of alkaline ofc because they are real ppl and not herbs on the internet) (he says)

toni romiti collab'd w/ speaker knockerz back in the day iirc, id heard that song before but it didnt stick w me at the time, there's this whole world of like, unprofessional R&B (lol) that im not privvy to

like this girl ann marie from chicago has millions of views & a big fanbase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVV51aJAVFA

unprofessional non-indie R&B

"2 Hours of Ann Marie, Tink, Sonta & Tynisha Keli"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QmRIjdsy1A

mcdonalds parking lot wave

i mean that song's understatement rested on its specificity rather than lo-fi platitude but tim's kehlani throughline is viable here i think

wave is too strong obv lol, try core

just thinking about that early 00s kinda amateurish girlishness minor rise that keh tapped into, like 3lw or w/e, but maintained alongside foundational relatable rnb blues (young person "blue collar" ugh)

^^^^^^^ gets it

That whole Sizzla album is fire, on incidentally. But "I've got to stop them from compelling you" is forever my jam / pick up line.

THREE fantasia songs and honey cocaine? i need to find and befriend these girls immediately

talking of fantasia her new country ballad is pretty incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7YTDzhrBDQ

gallant's "bourbon" is so good

Some free show as part of SummerStage in NYC that might interest y'all, including KING, Ginuwine and Angie Stone.

R&B and Funk at SummerStage 2016: Ginuwine and Mack Wilds, Angie Stone, KING, Cymande, Deva Mahal, Lyfe Jennings, Jon B, Trouble Funk and Operator Emz, Vivian Green, Backyard Band and more

Cymande, KING, Deva Mahal, DJ Parler
June 11 – Saturday - 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Angie Stone, DJ Chuck Chillout
June 22 – Wednesday - 7:00pm - Betsy Head Park, Brooklyn - FREE SHOW

Only in Queens Summer Festival - Ginuwine, Mack Wilds, Kid ‘n’ Play
June 26 – Sunday - 5:00pm - Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens – FREE SHOW

Vivian Green, GrandWizzard Theodore
June 30 – Thursday - 7:00pm – Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Trouble Funk, Operator Emz
July 3 – Sunday – 7:00pm – Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn – FREE SHOW

Lyfe Jennings
July 28 – Thursday – 7:00pm – Queensbridge Park, Queens – FREE SHOW

Jon B
August 2 – Tuesday – 7:00pm – Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island – FREE SHOW

Igmar Thomas and Revive Big Band: A Journey Through The Legacy of Black Culture
August 7 – Sunday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

GoldLink, Backyard Band, DJ Spicoli
August 28 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

tiny's daughter zonnique, formerly of omg girlz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c1gK46bjIg

feeling this one w/ young thug from last year more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RmBPtKPRQ

I'm not convinced

What do the people think of Bryson tiller? Has this been discussed? Is it more than a literal mile marker for some current R&B aesthetic center? Are ppl bonding emotionally w such a Cool Guy? Wtf is the deal anyway?

everything old is new again

Thread doesn't care for him, the general public likes him a lot. I like his aesthetic and I like the singles (they're super durable) but the album was pretty one note and I don't connect with him emotionally.

the album is HUGE. he's one of the biggest new "stars" in R&B rn

even tho hes like the R&B equiv to idk john goodman's character on roseanne, the loveable schlub

just some meat & potatoes extremely modern but not very self aware type ish

i think i've defended him on ilx before. not sure why his on record persona is so douchey, i feel like the songs would work regardless.

anyway "don't" and "exchange" are pretty solid radio jams. i get why people think he's extremely corny but the gatekeeping around him feels like drake stans trying to keep their own turf for themselves. also do think there's a good chance he grows into his own as an artist and that if he hangs around for 5 years we'll look back at this stuff as the typically generic beginning to a career.

do u believe there's something attracting ppl to him, an ineffable state of being, or is he merely the man for his time and place, an everyman if you will

this article resonated w/ me http://noisey.vice.com/blog/why-is-bryson-tiller-so-popular

maybe im just bored by the aggressively relatable

I love PJ so much. She's very relatable in a non-aggressive way, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l185-AGZhnA

what's wrong with relatable in an aggressive way?

idk. That the aggression goes into making it relatable vs. aggression itself being presented as something you can relate to?

what's wrong with relatable in an aggressive way?

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its for simple insecure ppl who respond to the empty pointlessness of the universe by constantly reaffirming in group status?

nb PJ is not aggressively relatable she's a gem

even tho hes like the R&B equiv to idk john goodman's character on roseanne, the loveable schlub

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao what the fuck is this comparison

He makes very-current R&B music that sounds good and he has some good singles. Not sure why writers have cast his popularity as this inexplicable mystery.

Because the songs are boring and forgettable and derivative full of extremely general and generic lyrics?

I mean obv that's what people like, but I think it's fair to be like, weird that this is the standard bearer for r&b male rookie class

lmao what the fuck is this comparison

― some dude, Thursday, April 28, 2016 8:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was looking for a regular Joe ass character in popular culture broadly relatable but not especially fleshed out or, like, deep

what's wrong with relatable in an aggressive way?

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its for simple insecure ppl who respond to the empty pointlessness of the universe by constantly reaffirming in group status?

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh haha i meant artists whose aggression is relatable, i agree w you about the type of artist whose uninteresting ~relatability is laid on so thickly, which seems to be like 75% of genuinely popular charting artists right now

like...i feel aggrieved at the thought of even having to have an opinion on bryson tiller tbh

Inna Michael Franks vein I dig this hard https://soundcloud.com/inglewoodsir/tricky

This one too. He got that something
https://soundcloud.com/freshselects/sir-the-real

https://soundcloud.com/freshselects/sir-right-by-you

Playlist is updated for the month of April.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLoZo-lDRo

motown signee Malachiae Warren - Minute Made

Yay, new Sassy Black (of THEESatisfaction) coming out soon. First released track is excellent:

http://sassyblack.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-lame-dates

― tangenttangent, Thursday, March 10, 2016 3:46 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard some more of the album and it sounds really good.

― Hey (Extended Mix), Sunday, March 13, 2016 11:07 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

New album out now! It's sounding great. Can't wait to get into this properly. Apparently THEESatisfaction has split though, which is sad...

i caught this on bet jams & dig it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvtZMi5O8pI

tho i DO NOT CONDONE the lyric moonwalkin on a hundred grand

bobby brackins album is very enjoyable

She bad to the bone like a calcium disorder--ha!

new zo! album is quite good, quiet storm/'80s smooth r&b vibe with a rotating cast of guest vocalists incl. phonte

Playlist is updated for the month of May.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

this christte michele is awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_DHRI-Xp0

usher's new single with young thug is not good :(

leans a little too hard on the master p references too

any r&b singer with a thugger collabo = http://i.imgur.com/aqbzg7q.png

it's cool but sounds like it can't decide if it wants to be a rap or r&b song

solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of 2016 R&B

Ant thoughts on why A. Keys' In Common doesn't seem to be taking off (yet)? It's pretty awesome!

it's very dawn richard

it is - but it is also very Sorry/Work/OneDance/afropop so a pinch of Dawn really shouldn't hold it back.

really like it but it's a bit anaemic

I'm happy for every drop of anemic Alicia Keys we get.

i like that song a lot, wasn't expecting anything else from her to be good after the atrocity that was "girl on fire"

as for why it's not taking off... at radio it seems to be struggling to find the right fit format-wise. it's making decent inroads at urban and urban ac stations, where it sounds very unique compared to the rest of their fare. meanwhile, the rhythmic stations, where i think the song would fit best sonically, are barely biting at all (maybe they're waiting for it to become a bigger r&b radio hit?). i think it's been performed on tv once or twice, but i'm not sure if it's the kind of song that'll sell a bunch off of live performances.

oh, and it's nowhere to be found at mainstream pop radio because of course it's not :\

I really don't get the dawn Richard comparisons, it's this super warm reggae/afropop record which sounds nothing like her colder tactile electronic ish to me

It DOES sound imho like sevyn streeter's "consistent" one of last year's most underrated songs although I hesitate to make the comparison only bc it makes "in common" seem slight

The song is heavily influenced by tropical music,[1][2] as well as dancehall,[5][6][7] having a Latin beat.[1] It is also marked by clipped phrasing over a minimal beat[2] with trendy Caribbean vibes,[17] Afrobeat instrumental[18] and icy drum patterns.[19] The instrumentation also features collage of electronic beats and tropicalia-infused rhythms.[20]

How[1][2] could that[3][4][5] even go[6] wrong[8][9], huh?[12]

somebody call a doctor, we got a burst appendix

this thread is so sad & dead

helpful revive

im trying!!

Hey, that Black Coffee remix of In Common is pretty great! More african remixes, please!

yeah k.michelle, king & maxwell the only r'n'b i'm enjoying this year...

Surely the Tweet album gets some love...

I heard this Ro James song on BET Soul today and I liked it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1Pq2Fuw30

found this while browsing bandcamp tags:
https://amyfitzdoyley.bandcamp.com/album/spines-snippet

I'm feeling June's Diary, the band Kelly Rowland put together on Chasing Destiny. I'd post YouTubes but I'm on a train.

"LANCE" is an awesome record

I am not that into the k michelle but do love tweet and King and maxwell

After the influence of a few friends I'm coming around on the DVSN

I'm more looking for new artists or singles a little off the beaten path tho, like tweet and Maxwell have been making music for 1-2 decades

the dvsn was not as bad as i thought initially but i still find it pretty ponderous (prob the point)

I just wish there was a star, the anonymous thing is weird to me

I wish the Jacquees mixtape got more run

oh yeah i like that too

PJ's album is dropping in a week, I believe.

I wish the Jacquees mixtape got more run

― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Thursday, July 7, 2016 4:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

runs all day w me I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-JBOEAyMtQ

^- is very good

playlist updated.
LANCE is a v v fun song.

ngaiire is sorta vaguely r&b, more ppl should be talking about that album other than brad, tim and me lol

love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r24BSFe75g

https://twitter.com/KaneChattey/status/718806743178993664

mentioned on artist specific thread but new jeremih album
http://www.audiomack.com/album/jeremih-14/late-nights-europe

this is so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI70xeHd0Jc

new Diana (Wynter) Gordon track up on the fader is pretty strong - excited for more.

can we assume j0rdan's in a string vest with a can of red stripe jammin that new partynextdoor

yes but to the new tyga

heh acceptable

'nasty' still >>>>>>> tho, as deej will advise

that song is great

the new torey lanez is the real dud

really liking diana gordon's new one!

fantasia's new album is out today omg i had no idea!

omfg this fantasia record

aw yeah the nao record rules too. happy r&b day everyone

texturally this nao record is extremely my shit

i agree on the texture. vocally it's a little.... how do i put this..... british?

oh yeah but I don't particularly mind

wow fantasia, i knew she could do earthy but i didn't know she could do light and spacious, this album is great

had been underwhelmed by nao's ep and the singles i bothered hearing (and annoyed by her all-caps insistence), the album wasn't doing much for me but around "in the morning" it sort of...blossoms quite nicely and surprisingly

catching up on the pj album mentioned earlier too and that's really brilliant on one listen, though could do without the children's tv interlude thing and also why does g-eazy exist

i hereby decree a use other words please ruling on texture

certainly a bit of the old heliumballoonageorge about this nao. sounds ok on flick-thru but i don't anticipate ever recalling the songs

two-thirds through it i was thinking it could use either more hooks (cuz none were particularly memorable) or fewer hooks (and just commit to the semi-reverie she was poking at) but around the time when the beats got crunchier it seemed to resolve itself, albeit this is just one listen and i couldn't sing anything back to you yet. it's a weird thing about these aluna-ish voices that they're all ethereal/breathy but when it comes down to a whole album surprisingly inflexible

i mean one-third

of the fantasia songs that are new to me (only about half the album, though the half i've heard was stunning already) "stay up" is so incredible

i would merely add nao to the bashmore dornik etc ersatz uk parlour boogie pile

by the by i really quite like all alunag's new stuff this year! seems to be struggling for momentum though

i hereby decree a use other words please ruling on texture

the surfaces are good

anyway I too was annoyed at the insistence of nao and wasnt really planning on listening to the record but I came away so pleasantly surprised, much as the particular grooves and sounds it's using are kinda designed in a factory somewhere to make me lose my shit

thought it was sort of weird that even beyond the opener being titled "get to know ya" i was reminded at various points of maxwell's now

but around "in the morning" it sort of...blossoms quite nicely and surprisingly

also my initial posts about it itt were almost 100 percent motivated by the synth that appears halfway through "in the morning"

heliumballoonageorge

hehe

i would merely add nao to the bashmore dornik etc ersatz uk parlour boogie pile

anderson paak, kaytranada, gallant over here

the pj is def good. seems like kehlani is aiming for the radio with her new stuff so pj sort of scratches the old kehlani itch.

ngaiire is sorta vaguely r&b, more ppl should be talking about that album other than brad, tim and me lol

― art baengels (monotony),

good record! "Diggin'" is one of my jamz of the year

adding to the Ngaiire love - it is filling the Jessie Ware shaped void in my life right now

Has anyone heard or talked about the new Michael Kiwanuka? I don't like Danger Mouse too much, but he got some good stuff out of the guy. Very melancholy Isaac Hayes.

ngaiire i think did make the record i wanted jessie ware's "tough love" to be

PJ was the opening act at the K Michelle concert I was at last night and she was really good. Agree with above that the album is great.

is the kiwanuka an improvement over his first (and imo boring) album?

I think so. It's still boring, I guess, but as an aesthetic? First track is this 10-minute epic, which is like Pink Floyd meets "Hot Buttered Soul." Isaac Hayes' "Echoes?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp32Fl_f0mw

I know old Stax singer William Bell doesn't exactly fit into this thread, but his new album, This is Where I Live, is nice and he sounded great live last night in a club with the Atlanta based Total Package band.

https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/serpentwithfeet-blisters

I know zero about this serpentwithfeet, but the single off the EP is so lovely.

new sevyn streeter single so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roWVtUlY4e8

this is the album we should be clamouring for

Damn that is awesome!

That Skinny Gucci verse is flames, too

i don't like it *quite* as much as some of her other singles but i am really excited she's gonna put an album out

SEVYN!!!!!

that single is awesome, love hearing gucci over the "party and bullshit" sample!!

I've been toying with starting a Sevyn thread because she is just so faultless and it bewilders me that she isn't a major-league star yet.

in which lex recaps
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/22/best-randb-blond-king-abra-frank-ocean

the Jamila Woods tape is so good. apparently it hasn't been mentioned on ilm yet? I liked the Noname tape but Heavn is much more immediately impressive/appealing imo

lex, PJ and Paris Jones are not the same person.

Playlist is updated.

lloyd put out a 'where i've been' song in may (!!) and the video came out a couple of weeks ago. i missed his voice so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rG6y-NKrHU&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rG6y-NKrHU

Man, it's been five years since King of Hearts, and almost seven since the Young Goldie EP. I wonder if he even has a label anymore?

From what I read last night after coming across the clip, there's an entity that's going to release an EP soon — not sure what label that is though.

EP is a good format for him. Low key, intimate, low stakes. I still return to Young Goldie every year or so and love it

"tru" is easily one of the most-played songs at the r&b station here so he must have some kinda label support

been so long since i last thought about lloyd. didnt he have an idiotic rapping phase

still remember u all fronting on 'cupid' though (tim excepted) so WHATEVER GUYS

He put out that Playboy Diaries mixtape, which was bad, then got in a feud with Miguel because they both had the same haircut. Then he disappeared.

i wasn't feeling "tru" the first time i heard it but it kinda has a confessional tp-2.com era r kelly thing going for it

what? I loved Cupid

IN FACT check out 2011
http://furia.com/pjs/voter_686018.html

he also put out the best new Christmas song of the 2010s

i refuse to undermine my supernatural instinct by checking facts

https://soundcloud.com/chris_brown/what-would-you-do
perhaps now that he's finally in jail and unlikely to pop right back out producers will stop giving him hot tracks? It's frustrating.

or you could just come to terms with him being kinda good? lol
looks like he's not in jail either. Apparently the girl was crazy.

i still dislike "cupid" if that makes you feel better. terrible song

anyway this new Ye Ali song is teh shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENg9zHxuE5E

that chris brown song is nice in that it doesn't try and bash you over the head but it also doesn't really have much of a chorus to it & it's a blatant rip off of "what do you mean?" just grafted onto more traditional pop house instead of trop house

anyway this new Ye Ali song is teh shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENg9zHxuE5E

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, September 1, 2016 12:31 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark

surprised you fuck with something that sounds so much like bryson tiller, i like it tho

huh i could have sworn we had a "king of hearts" thread or poll, but i can't find it now

"lay it down" >>> cupid imo

polow brought it on that record tho imo

this was my fav off that record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLwnojWx0Ac

in retrospect a lot of it sounded like a trey songz album

i KNOW there's a thread...iirc forks started it?

surprised you fuck with something that sounds so much like bryson tiller, i like it tho

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 1, 2016 11:52 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can see how it sounds like bryson tiller kinda, and i know that's the knock against dude, but it doesn't sound like a drake song to me except in the most "minimal/icy R&B slow jam sung by dude being a sleazeball" sense

and sounding like fake drake songs is basically my issue with bryson tiller

yeah the production is not really a misty 40 shebib rip off, it's more about his melodies & such

"traphouse jodeci"... another repellently insolent nu-r&b nobody

you dont like that song tho?

in retrospect a lot of it sounded like a trey songz album

I've long suspected a song or two was literally intended for trey songz. one of the no-name guest rappers on the record even calls Lloyd Trigger

lol

This new Tink is fire
http://youtu.be/3wpl_BrNhuo

I really like this jesse boykins III album

https://soundcloud.com/jesseboykinsiii/sets/bartholomew3rd

we all agree on usher/future rivals right

New Bell Biv Devoe slaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrY2_4AKKs

new Lloyd is nice and fizzy https://youtu.be/OiuxlwDWpBU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSDsieKkx0

R&B group produced by Super Furry Animals' Cian Ciaran.

lmfaoooooo i originally thought the lyric in usher's "rivals" was 'call your baby that's only on Tidal' -_________-

album's got some (other) good trax

yeah it sounds pretty good? maybe w/o the standout tracks of looking 4 myself but w/o the garish genre hopping

I like the Usher album and really hope that the prolonged Tinashe-Dream collabo thing actually works out for her. What else is there to look forward to in 2016?

more banal longneck posts?

Sorry. Im Sorry. Im trying to remove it

.........
Let me rephrase the question. Where do you guys go to find out about upcoming releases? I tried searching for fall 2016 r&b albums and came up with basically nothing outside of a tba tinashe.

the usher album's a funny one. i found it simultaneously intriguing and insipid, before it ultimately dwindled away into the unmemorable. hard ii love!! i guess it seems an accurate reflection of the bright n trite wanderings of a post-relevant prodigy who never really got to become a particularly interesting person? (oh cool a horrible bust of me, i'll put it on the cover. it's flawed, that's interesting. we all have flaws.)

he's like a sort of jet set gap year tourist at this point - well-mannered, inquisitive, fleetingly engaged but m/l detached from the emotional current. each track has an attentive intricacy to it that adds up to a sort of light charm but not much more. it's not uncreative, in its way. it has a vague cohesion, of sorts. on the radio 'rivals' felt to me like the realest since confessions, but here it's just surface, no ache or sensuousness or whatever. on 'missing u' he sings "i miss you girl!!" exactly like he does on 'throwback', but it's just empty. feels like there are lot of moments like that here, where you can't tell between subtle callback and blank reflex memory.

i'm guessing a few other of these tracks would perk up ears out of album context too; 'crash', 'fwm' have a enjoyable low key bounce like 'show me'. 'bump'/'let me' (and 'no limit' preceding too by extension i suppose) forms a nice kind of abstracted atl tribute suite that suggests a vacuum-pack ciara

i dunno, it passes the time. there's no desperation or cynicism here, which is fairly admirable. i wouldn't want the "garish genre hopping" as j0rd correctly describes of the prev album all over again but there was at least a glee to it. [adam scott face moment before delivering "are we having fun yet"] Usher is No Longer Looking 4 Himself, And That's Okay (Meh Though)

quite enjoyed that nyt style profile recently where he's all up on visvim and his metal pouch for keeping crystals. "Normally I’ll put a labradorite or rose quartz in the pouch — anything I feel like I need at the time."

New Bell Biv Devoe slaps

― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:28 Bookmark

one of the ways you can tell e.r is an industry plant is that "slaps" is literally the only possible word u couldve deployed to put a positive bay-area-nostalgia-bubble spin on a track that's pointlessly senile in any other context. kudos!

you saw right through me

usher album is one of those records where the songs sound minor out of context but then together they make more sense, but still the album itself can't also help but feel... minor as well, just slightly less baffling to think about from an A&R perspective. the one thing that's weird to me is why the album is so serious and morose. it's still an agreeable R&B album so it's not even like art-y serious like say anti (ugly bust on the album cover aside), but i thought "good kisser" & "don't mind" (plus even the "blurred lines" rip off w/ nicki) fit him better thematically than a lot of what is on here, even if those songs weren't amazing or anything (i consider "don't mind" canon tho).

i do think "bump" is pretty sick though, even tho the part at the end where "love you down" floats on by makes me wish he had just recorded a bass track just for the fuck of it. also the 8 min song at the end somehow justifies itself.

yeah i think i saw some words like brooding and seductive written about it and idk maybe it was just me but the album's emotional scale kinda p much passed me by in its entirety, never mind what registers where on it. just seemed like expert exercises in style like i was on the other side of the booth glass observing the whole thing done in one take, not much depth of stagecraft to it

Usher already feels like a relic from another era, alas

describes the knock on urshers whole body of work. xp

noticing that No Limit is a carbon copy of Jeremih Planes

he sounds great on the title track

half of this record sounds p great

I just noticed on the Wiki page that he's got two solo songwriting credits.

oh nice he wrote the 8 minute track. dream/tricky produced bump

xp that would explain why i like no limit so much!

I'mm not cool with Usher and Rubén Blades attempt to write their own "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman."

the "fwm" "rivals" "tell me" run is by far the highlight of the album. "crash" is also kinda great (tho it was a bit too subtle for radio). i still don't like "no limit" and even its sonic similarity to "planes" does little but remind me of how superior the latter is, even considering the turd guest rap. much of the rest of the album is passable production in service of songs that are not quiiite there.

FYM probs my top choice off this atm

i'm amused that the album opens with him saying "i fucked up. i'm man enough to admit it... but i don't know if it makes a difference." reminds me of the spoken "i hope you can accept that i'm man enough to tell you [that i have impregnated another woman]" from "confessions pt. 2" (prob the most ridiculous lyric of his career, like brah, it's not how man you are that'll be the hard part to accept!!). in light of that this almost seems like #personalgrowth until it descends into that cringe-inducing 'conversation' w/ priyanka chopra (why?)

looking 4 myself definitely did have a couple of truly awful tracks but its highs were high enough to compensate. its typical tracks were of a higher standard than the typical tracks from this one alas.

i do wish "let me" had taken more influence from the inoj version of "love you down" rather than the ready for the world orig lol

I might be in the other boat. The last two or three Usher records all had sensational highs, but they also had some truly dreadful missteps that completely pulled me out of them and made them almost impossible to get through as complete works. I'm happy to sacrifice some highs if it means getting rid of those lows; I like having an Usher record I can play start to finish.

Glad there's no mock "Blurred Lines" or Chris Brownstep dance tracks here. Or Nicki tracks where he pressures an uneasy fan into a barely consensual threesome or whatever.

Also the singles blend really seamlessly into the album here, which hasn't been the case for a while. "Crash" sounds awesome in context

^^^^

the industry strikes back. a complete start-to-finish work of seamless... what?

seems like it's... hard ii love

oh wait rtc already made that joke

a complete start-to-finish work of seamless... what?

Really inviting, easygoing, interestingly produced R&B songs from one of the genre's all-time most charismatic singers?

http://i.imgur.com/ISMRaDT.gif

https://twitter.com/yxngdinnerpxrty/status/683350656221089792

loooooooooooooooooool so good

charisma is a p interesting sales tactic wrt ursh given it's long been my impression that he is strikingly unbeloved in proportion to his fame (i. for the last decade, at least ii. among r&b heartlands iii. excluding any criminal/degenerate peers)

obv there is pop culture charisma as public persona and there is on-record charisma as expressive conduit etc but let's not pretend they're mutually exclusive

xpost haaaaa that's great.

Andy K likes the Usher album and doesn't like the Fantasia album. So in 2016 I'm considering maybe not forming any opinions about anything.

boxedjoy you should start that thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEF-8N-Y3SY

Both r&b and hip hop but the new Tink is amazing

That "sorry I've been gone but I've been going through some challenges highly specific to a mid-tier major label recording artist" Lloyd song is actually getting airtime on my local rap station. I did not expect that.

i rly love that song now

It works way better on the radio than I'd have thought, but the old-man Ginuwine vibes still throw me off. Feels like Lloyd aged about 20 years since his last single.

Playlist is updated.

The Ty Dolla Sign tape is tight.

the songs that sound like the last album are good, the songs that sound like modern rap radio are bad

actually i suspect a good bit of it might be leftover from the free tc sessions, some of the credits/sounds seem pretty similar i.e. tish hyman also wrote this record's "horses in the stable" rip off

I like the songs that sound like modern rap radio. They've got bounce and feel luxurious, partly due to the production, partly to Ty's songwriting and partly due to the harmonizing.

This H.E.R. album is pretty cool

https://soundcloud.com/iamhermusic/sets/her-volume-1

Also the Tink album everyone is ignoring bc they already decided what they think about her

maybe it's the anonymity as coordinated marketing strategy gambit or the drake remix but the h.e.r. record came off as too cynical for me

wait there's a tink album?!?

tape if you prefer. winter's diary 4. it's not on streaming

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/453842/27200298/1471575545400/ymtk+no+rest.png?token=BPS89xfrj9nnIekbJrAKJdKyd60%3D
this All the Right Places alb by YMTK is perfect. pretty much all I've listened to in my car over the last month or so. some parts ty$, some parts k major with some bayarea production leanings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9v5OghjMG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIsluJLjNfU

it's not on streaming
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:41 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...

its streaming on datpiff

Loving the Kadhja Bonet album "The Visitor"...it's like trip-hop if it was good

another vote for the kadhja; seems weird to me that "this love" isn't on the album proper?

anyways, the playlist is updated through October. 130+ songs, about nine hours of music.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

love the production on this https://soundcloud.com/ambremusic/no-service-in-the-hills-feat-kehlaniprod-erick-bardales

The Baby Queens album is really good:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0QgNBma8J1MLfK3dZmM6D9

Another insolent r&b nobody (2017 rolling thread title?) but I like this song by interscope industry plant 6lack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hP6VcpJXaU

http://www.billboard.com/charts/r-and-b-albums

So Joe had an earlier album called "My name is Joe" and his new final album is called #MYNAMEISJOETHOMAS...

Number #1 on the chart

also Joe Thomas, New Man (2008)

if i were an industry horticulturalist '6LACK' would definitely be on a list of names on a scrunched up ball of paper in my office wastebasket

take away that and the perfectly hilarious youtube image and i agree it's a p decent song. not v swaggy at all

i liked his most recent single, which capped off an hourlong joe block on bet soul a few months ago

Yeah clack is w/out a doubt a terrible name

out next week...

Tru is Lloyd's first project after a five year hiatus spent focusing on family, obtaining his high school diploma, and learning to play guitar.

i, uh, moved, i guess?

So Nicole Wray (now Lady Wray) is back with a new album. Heard this hot track this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWtoHZrtYM

playlist updated

forks i'm not one of these people who cares all that much about whether you mine rolling threads for playlists but it is fairly annoying when you bump multiple rolling threads just to say that the playlist is updated. people who follow the playlists can monitor the playlists!

don't worry too much about it; I'll be stopping in the upcoming year.

:(

could you do a thread that's just "bump this when the rolling spotify playlists are updated" and just once a month by like "here is the link for X, here is the link for Y" etc and that way the people who get something from using them can still enjoy them without frustrating those who don't?

i have a plan that will undoubtedly still find a way to rile killljoys but should serve the same purpose.

but if someone else would take the wheel (or build a script, though good luck with that), i would DEARLY love to pass this off either to a committee or an individual. ILXmail me if you're feeling froggy.

killljoys

damn even the dictionary doesnt have enough Ls for forks to take

can't spell "random pedantic" without rtc

Grammys voters nominated a number of old-school acts for best r'n'b album (Grammys "year" is like a fiscal one ending in September I think)

Best R&B Performance:

"Turnin' Me Up" — BJ The Chicago Kid
"Permission" — Ro James
"I Do" — Musiq Soulchild
"Needed Me" — Rihanna
"Cranes in the Sky" — Solange

Best Traditional R&B Performance:

"The Three Of Me" — William Bell
"Woman's World" — BJ The Chicago Kid
"Sleeping With The One I Love" — Fantasia
"Angel" — Lalah Hathaway
"Can't Wait" — Jill Scott

Best R&B Song:

"Come and See Me" — J. Brathwaite, Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib, songwriters (PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake)
"Exchange" — Michael Hernandez & Bryson Tiller, songwriters (Bryson Tiller)
"Kiss It Better" — Jeff Bhasker, Robyn Fenty, John-Nathan Glass & Natalia Noemi, songwriters (Rihanna)
"Lake By the Ocean" — Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
"Luv" — Magnus August Høiberg, Benjamin Levin & Daystar Peterson, songwriters (Tory Lanez)

Best Urban Contemporary Album:

Lemonade — Beyoncé
Ology — Gallant
We Are King — KING
Malibu — Anderson .Paak
Anti — Rihanna

Best R&B Album:

In My Mind — BJ The Chicago Kid
Lalah Hathaway Live — Lalah Hathaway
Velvet Portraits — Terrace Martin
Healing Season — Mint Condition
Smoove Jones — Mya

'turnin me up' was a grown person summer smash for sure. quite right too

love that song

More Lloyd; new EP out tomorrow

https://soundcloud.com/officialloydmusic/holding-feat-lil-wayne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT0f-eSaf4M

wanted to pull this out of her specific thread, really into this new sevyn song. it's so soulful.

i am super enjoying this alt R&B album by a 20 year old from the UK

https://soundcloud.com/ladydonli/sets/wallflower-an-e-p-by-lady

agree this is legit impressive

u were asking about new uk dance waves but these are the fixed income securities and trad dividend stocks we'll be seeing in the current bear market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMKmuzaijA

I like this Keke Palmer EP a lot.

cheesy

i mean that in a certain way relative to this moment in time

in retrospect we were fools to think we could enjoy fifth harmony without raising sean garrett from the crypt

yeah i'm kinda feeling that keke palmer too

gallant getting stiffed scandalously this awards season i see

not that i could rly find any evidence that the people that heard it were actually listening

Ha. Old-school me saw Gallant live at a Library of Congress in DC Smokey Robinson tribute event. Pretty good but didn't completely wow me on his Smokey cover.

Is there a new R&B thread yet?

anyway Tricky Stewart completely murdered this:

https://soundcloud.com/thidaniel/purple

those 90s pop ska drum fills kill me lol

also feeling this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_3OIAsoHA

no new thread yet?

im always a lil behind ~ really feel paloma ford - do it again

Rolling R&B Thread 2017

Playlist is finalized.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist