Rolling R&B 2016

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