Rolling R&B 2016

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

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.