Rolling R&B 2016

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