Rolling R&B 2016

FYM probs my top choice off this atm

i'm amused that the album opens with him saying "i fucked up. i'm man enough to admit it... but i don't know if it makes a difference." reminds me of the spoken "i hope you can accept that i'm man enough to tell you [that i have impregnated another woman]" from "confessions pt. 2" (prob the most ridiculous lyric of his career, like brah, it's not how man you are that'll be the hard part to accept!!). in light of that this almost seems like #personalgrowth until it descends into that cringe-inducing 'conversation' w/ priyanka chopra (why?)

looking 4 myself definitely did have a couple of truly awful tracks but its highs were high enough to compensate. its typical tracks were of a higher standard than the typical tracks from this one alas.

i do wish "let me" had taken more influence from the inoj version of "love you down" rather than the ready for the world orig lol

I might be in the other boat. The last two or three Usher records all had sensational highs, but they also had some truly dreadful missteps that completely pulled me out of them and made them almost impossible to get through as complete works. I'm happy to sacrifice some highs if it means getting rid of those lows; I like having an Usher record I can play start to finish.

Glad there's no mock "Blurred Lines" or Chris Brownstep dance tracks here. Or Nicki tracks where he pressures an uneasy fan into a barely consensual threesome or whatever.

Also the singles blend really seamlessly into the album here, which hasn't been the case for a while. "Crash" sounds awesome in context

^^^^

the industry strikes back. a complete start-to-finish work of seamless... what?

seems like it's... hard ii love

oh wait rtc already made that joke

a complete start-to-finish work of seamless... what?

Really inviting, easygoing, interestingly produced R&B songs from one of the genre's all-time most charismatic singers?

http://i.imgur.com/ISMRaDT.gif

https://twitter.com/yxngdinnerpxrty/status/683350656221089792

loooooooooooooooooool so good

charisma is a p interesting sales tactic wrt ursh given it's long been my impression that he is strikingly unbeloved in proportion to his fame (i. for the last decade, at least ii. among r&b heartlands iii. excluding any criminal/degenerate peers)

obv there is pop culture charisma as public persona and there is on-record charisma as expressive conduit etc but let's not pretend they're mutually exclusive

xpost haaaaa that's great.

Andy K likes the Usher album and doesn't like the Fantasia album. So in 2016 I'm considering maybe not forming any opinions about anything.

boxedjoy you should start that thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEF-8N-Y3SY

Both r&b and hip hop but the new Tink is amazing

That "sorry I've been gone but I've been going through some challenges highly specific to a mid-tier major label recording artist" Lloyd song is actually getting airtime on my local rap station. I did not expect that.

i rly love that song now

It works way better on the radio than I'd have thought, but the old-man Ginuwine vibes still throw me off. Feels like Lloyd aged about 20 years since his last single.

Playlist is updated.

The Ty Dolla Sign tape is tight.

the songs that sound like the last album are good, the songs that sound like modern rap radio are bad

actually i suspect a good bit of it might be leftover from the free tc sessions, some of the credits/sounds seem pretty similar i.e. tish hyman also wrote this record's "horses in the stable" rip off

I like the songs that sound like modern rap radio. They've got bounce and feel luxurious, partly due to the production, partly to Ty's songwriting and partly due to the harmonizing.

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

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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.

:(