Rolling R&B 2016

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