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

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