Let's do this!
We'll begin with Jazmine Sullivan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2nSh7QraY
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
lol oops rolling R&B thread 2015
― un chill goon (some dude), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
gonna just throw my post from the other thread in here before i ask mods to delete that thread:
should hopefully be getting albums this year from Miguel, Jeremih (?), Maxwell (???????), Frank Ocean, Usher, Ne-Yo, Jazmine Sullivan, T-Pain, Tamar Braxton, The Weeknd, Ty Dolla $ign, TeeFLii, Elle Varner, Brandy, and Alicia Keys.
i heard a really good new Sevyn Streeter single, "Don't Kill The Fun," on the radio today, but it doesn't appear to be online yet (which I didn't think was possible anymore.
― un chill goon (some dude), Monday, January 5, 2015 8:26 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― un chill goon (some dude), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
i'm excited for jazmine's album; "forever don't last" clicked w/ me so much recently
i need to hear that sevyn streeter single!! was chris brown on it? my googling just now seems to indicate that possibility
― dyl, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 05:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah, CB is on it. i missed the beginning of the song so it's possible he has a verse or something but he didn't seem like he was on it very prominently, like glorified backup vocals basically.
― un chill goon (some dude), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 06:14 (nine years ago) link
this was from last year, oh well, but i dont think i saw it in the R&B thread? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2XwUazy1Q
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:18 (nine years ago) link
new jazmine stream!
http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/01/jazmine-sullivan-reality-show-album-premiere
― prolego, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
"Mascara" is a wonderful song but I'm not quite feeling the rest of the album besides "Stanley."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
the run from "forever don't last" to "masterpiece" is all really good to me. the rest other than "dumb" and "mascara" did not really click on one listen... but then again "forever don't last" is prob my favorite of them all and it had to grow on me over the course of ~a month.
― dyl, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
pretty psyched to dig into this. Dumb, Forever and Mascara were top tracks for last year.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 January 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
ha i came in to say i'm really feeling this brooding, dissatisfied album and i haven't even got to the stretch you guys love yet
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
her voice is a revelation
i'm going to be in a work cave for most of this month and i'm pretty happy that i can just soundtrack it with an endless loop of the rae sremmurd/dawn richard/jazmine sullivan albums. 2015 already better than 2014 tbh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 12:02 (nine years ago) link
and then i got to "stanley" and omg its outro and that bassline
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
I spoke too soon. "Stupid Girl," "Hoodlove," "Veins" – I love this. She's never sounded so confident, and the material allows her to perform with a hint of glamorous self-parody.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 January 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
someone have a link for j sullivan 4 me
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Matt Bomer, who looks like Josh Brolin restyled as a Reagan administration lawyer, will play Monty Clift in an upcoming biopic.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
lol wrong thread
boys have toys too, you know they dothey call us stupid girls, they call us stupid girlsand when you love 'em like i do, you'll be a foolyou'll be a stupid girl, you'll be a stupid girl
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
dissatisfaction over making money (whether behind-the-curtain music industry stuff or theatre girl roles like "silver lining"), dissatisfaction over love that builds up to the most uptempo trax...who knew jazmine could sound so good so jaded? her last album was so elated
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
her vocal delivery on "stupid girl" and "if you dare" is unlike anything she's ever done before
"dumb" and "forever don't last" feel like real red herrings!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
"Mascara" too – it's like she's attempting some mocking theatrical Shirley Bassey shit that works.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
i thought Love Me Back was a fantastic album and a hard act to follow, but so far this one is at least close to the same standard
― un chill goon (some dude), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
according to the songwriting credits this is much more spare too: very much an intimate affair.
I officially love this record. The bonus track "If You Dare" is terrific too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fohpiig8N4U
― Andy K, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
heh, i didn't know jazmine premiered "stupid girls" last year...to a barbershop full of men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkC3ZEb-_7s
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
new sevyn streeter also existent and it's a great look for her, love those early 90s house horns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHppmXGGK4
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
jazmine album is great; excited to hear about the sevyn release... sad to see her continuing to have to piggyback on less interesting male r+b dorks
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
that youtube is slowed down i think; see http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/sevyn-streeter-dont-kill-the-fun-premiere/
but i love it!! so fresh and floaty, makes me wanna move fast then slow :)
― dyl, Friday, 9 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
xp Wow, Chris Brown sounds like hell there. Maybe he had a cold? Or did they just not tweak his voice in the studio? Like, why even have him on the track if that's his contribution?
― Evan R, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
oh i didn't listen to the youtube i just d/lded an mp3
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
sadly chris's mere presence on the track will help it fly up radio playlists
― dyl, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
good song but i wish the drums weren't so busy underneath, the whole of the production doesn't really work 100% for me
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 January 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
love the jazmine
― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm curious as to who produced "Stanley".
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
stanley does feel like the next most likely standout after the already released singles don't it.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid),
Da Internz
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 13:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaRypcAQGps
http://thumbs.gograph.com/gg66440626.jpg
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
they're gonna ride this formula out huh
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
i mean, it's obv a bottle of red preserves, kinda cant deny that, but conceptual & at a remove it's kind of a boring maneuver
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
that be the pectin
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
i mean yeah objectivity don't really come into it but eh who cares
basically i glean all of this from the tim westwood radio show here because tim continues to curate his dancehall style juggling sections of mustard wave and it is all simply irresistable
like the other week he even had me vibing on this before i had to slap myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDVE2l0sPw
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
lol martorialist has been trying to get me into that for weeks prob bc of westwood
not clicking for me tho
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 11 January 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
not that anyone should be proud of capitalizing off 'thots' but of COURSE its French Montana who manages to swipe that one
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 11 January 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah there is quite literally no other explanation for a fondness for that tune
tim seems to still have his old hotline to ny going so he plays the shit out of even the most minor french montana appearance, and that plus tim's trick of playing no more than 90 seconds of anything leads to these regrettable jammings
fwiw i checked the recent show i was thinking of and he fired thru all these in series
French Montana - Bad Bitch (feat. Jeremih / Diggy Simmons ft French Montana - Ain't Bout To Do / French Montana ft Jeremih & Chris Brown - Don't Panic / Wash - Can't Trust Thots ft. French Montana
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 January 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6436328/tomorrows-hits-natalie-la-rose-wash-josh-dorr
damn both of these were profiled here now i look l8
otoh how can i compete with the article's author mr g thot here https://twitter.com/gthot20
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
lol
― dyl, Sunday, 11 January 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
they're just using shazam prob
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 12 January 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
i passed on covering natalie la rose for the french montana/jeremih record for my column but i feel like the latter just has a nice menacing darkness to it which is refreshing in the ratchet milieu
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 12 January 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
his rappity rap follow up is kind of a regrettable direction imo but he can flow at least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K239Z8YzWI
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 3 October 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
this guy's vibe is weird he did a hipster dance producer EP and is playing at Cool Brooklyn Venue baby's all right in a few weeks but then he has this traditional R&B song done by very tradition-driven producers
since he's on interscope i assume the latter will win out but i guess i could see him as a sort of test case for a brave new future where major labels try and break artists to "tastemaker" scenes first
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
yeah i've been enjoying hearing "say it" on the radio. i didn't know pop & oak were involved, that's cool
― dyl, Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
"feat Chris Brown" is some kiss of death shit just lately but i am willing to make an exception for tinashehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKMKBmpwrg
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
There's a Brown-free version out there as well. Posted on the Tinashe thread, I think.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
oh hey, you CAN get it without, thanks for the heads uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-htwnPdp18
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Anyone disappointed with the Tamar Braxton? Starts strong, drags in the middle. Sometimes she wails like Keyshia Cole.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
it's not great but not nearly as many missteps as her last album
― some dude, Sunday, 11 October 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
lol, keyshia sprung to mind a few times as well for me, it was very wearying to slog through. i don't think it has the highs of the last album either
― lex pretend, Monday, 12 October 2015 11:22 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIcRQEvijw
great
― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 October 2015 09:43 (eight years ago) link
alive got a videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqpQgp8_ajonow i want summer back :(
― Spottie, Thursday, 22 October 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
i f/w this, clever
https://soundcloud.com/dj-victoriouz/the-hoodgeekz-x-jeremih-bone/
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 24 October 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
what do you guys think of SHADOWY TORONTO R&B artists dvsn
https://soundcloud.com/dvsndvsn/the-line
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 24 October 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
i want to hate on it so hard but its good
eff canada
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 24 October 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
http://sobs.com/2015/6040/sevyn-streeter-2Sevyn Streeter at SOBs in NYC - November 5 at 9:30pm (more likely 10.30 i'd guess)
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Streeter's Northeast US tour also includes
Mon, Nov 2
The Foundry Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USWed, Nov 4Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD, US
Sun, Nov 8Howard Theatre, Washington, DC, US
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 October 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
btw i saw that angie stone video on vh1 soul recently and wow that song rules
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 26 October 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
apparently teyena taylor put out a throwbackish EP a few months back & i like this bass track that interpolates "swing my way" (with good rapping by iman shumpert!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fszSp8WZlOY
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 November 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
i think i'm the only person who's checked for the natasha mosley album but it's really proving to be an excellent slow burn as the winter draws in. these two mid-album tracks work so well back to back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pssVutHtQmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44W6Ni5u_0Y
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
new Tiffany Evans EP is good, albeit not as good as the one she put out in 2013
― Viva la Wu Tang or Meth and All His Friends (some dude), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
i was sort of disappointed by it, will give it another shot though
the natasha mosley album seems barely to exist - i can't find production credits anywhere (was wondering which the zaytoven ones were, and there are some amazing sparse, subtle late-night sounds on it). it's not on allmusic or even wikipedia!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/strangetown-records/sets/baby-queens-1/s-lp1Ko
new baby queens tracks
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
couple of interesting things out this week, the mila j mixtape makes pretty good use of her sour sneer and boots has released something called aquaria which...is pretty gnarly and weird on one listen, awkward rhythms and dense production and distorted voices and a hell of a lot going on
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
the boots thing is interesting, sounds like Beck in midnight vultures mode to me
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
there's something very 90s about it
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
from last yr but im not reviving r&b 2014 sry, this chick opened for weeknd i dig this track, huh 9 mil views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twix375Me4Q
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 November 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
lol every post ive made in this thread this yr has been abt some last yr shit
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 November 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
surprised anyone thinks of that song as r&b! it was big on alt-rock radio.
― some dude, Thursday, 26 November 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
lol alt-rock hm i guess is could be idk
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 November 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link
i mean she doesnt have a band rite
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 November 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link
half the stuff on the alt-rock charts now has synths and drum machines
― some dude, Thursday, 26 November 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
not sure this "counts" as r&b but I love it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLR3ip6v31E
Danish singer, just 16 years old - it's a break-up song, title translates to something like "you and I are in the past tense now" ("we 2 past tense now")
Comments on youtube filled with young boys complaining that she must care a lot about the boy she's thrashing in the song since she wrote an entire song about him, such provocation
― niels, Thursday, 26 November 2015 08:49 (eight years ago) link
WHY HAVE I BEEN SLEEPING ON MR RICO LOVE'S 'BAD ATTITUDE'?????????
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 November 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
whole album is slept on, love that song
― just knocked me cold and left me on the sidewalk (some dude), Friday, 27 November 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
i def consider banks rnb
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 06:01 (eight years ago) link
http://hiphop-n-more.com/2015/11/new-music-erykah-badu-hello-feat-andre-3000/
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
alsohttp://blaecny.com/music/mixtapes-albums/mila-j-black-friday-ep/
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2015 00:41 (eight years ago) link
seems like this might be some appreciated corp-R&B for the cruhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD7tEguFu1A
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 30 November 2015 07:44 (eight years ago) link
also this is old but i recently was shared a twerk vid to this rmx & found it very compelling. i'm pretty sure it was the song, anywayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocv-Fyd0uAY
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 30 November 2015 08:49 (eight years ago) link
As we move into December, I'd like to drop a quick note to encourage any readers / lurkers / ilxors to post their favorite as-yet-unmentioned RnB tracks from this year to the thread so that I can hoover them into the ongoing spotify playlist. Last chance for any accessible stragglers that may not already be in the lexicon.
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 08:47 (eight years ago) link
the Baltimore rap station has a habit of putting non-official versions of big songs into their rotation, for instance they only ever play the shorter EP version of "Adorn." and the only way they ever play "Swimming Pools" is in a weird mix that affixes a minute of that Lloyd mixtape version to the Kendrick original. so it's not bad but i kind of hate it.
― just knocked me cold and left me on the sidewalk (some dude), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-EU_ahEj8
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
KING is proud to announce their long awaited debut full length album We Are KING will be released on February 5 through the band's independent label KING Creative. The first sampling from the album is "Hey (Extended Mix)". In a review on Pitchfork naming the song 'Best New Track' writer Marcus Moore wrote, "'Hey' is perhaps the best song in KING's discography so far. It's remarkably blissful, recalling tender milestones no matter how modest or grand."
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
oh. my. GOD
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
18 months of spoiled mash potato dinners. finally their ufo has returned
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Haha
― Tim F, Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
:D :D :D :D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
@__@
goddamn celestial visitation music of the spheres every time
think ima book the whole week off for when the album drops and then idk walk directly into a stripclub for valentines or something
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (Jill Scott, Van Hunt, V. Bozeman) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.
Rolling R&B 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 December 2015 07:32 (eight years ago) link
One last one on the way out:https://soundcloud.com/seramic/people-say
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link