Rolling R&B Thread 2010

lol boy just cannot dance. and where is my much-anticipated "shakin it 4 daddy" video!! "rollacoasta" is a great song though, i think the whole thicke album is deliciously light

robin thicke = 2010 rick astley?

"Shakin" was mercifully scrapped as a single iirc

airy falsetto = 2010 booming deep voice coming out of skinny little guy?

was referencing the music video tbh

but if you really want to hear a booming deep voice coming out of a skinny little guy in 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxnxr3J9Tak

such a dime

someone with more patience than me should really sift through all these leaks and find the best stuff: http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2010/03/28/shakes-sunday-soothing-session-take-54/#more-89385

Needless to say, the Electrik Red track is freakin' awesome.

yipes, needs a zip comp

new ciara/dreamer/tricky, caught it off rich fourfour's twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3ZpHMOyYk

damn that is GOOD

Hey guys, I've been bored of r&b for a few months and not paying attention except for like Sade/Erykah/whatever. What's did I miss?

doesn't feel like many albums have even been released yet. the Raheem DeVaughn and Omarion were OK, only others I can think of that I haven't heard are Usher and Monica.

Essential tracks?

this is my fav r&b track of the year (besides "window seat"), but i actually have no idea in what year it was recorded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfySFLkRioM

i'm with Cibula on the tip that the 11-minute house track "Lose Control" is the standout from the Raheem, although the deluxe version it's on is the audio equivalent of tl;dr

there's an 11-minute house track on the devaughn album?!?! OMG. i loved "i don't care" but i didn't even realise the album dropped. still haven't even got round to listening to omarion and despite not hating "lil freak" can't muster up the desire to bother w/usher. cassie's "fuck u silly" is prob my r&b jam of the year so far (erykah, sade, teedra excepted).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCU5hZd4iz8

liking this new ciara/dream track! kinda...brassier than i expected.

the fact that she's put out a track called "Fuck U Silly" has me thinking that Cassie's looked at her non-career and gone into desperation mode

all of the three jimmy jam & terry lewis songs on the usher album are A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMOIeg5Lkw

it's cool that they sort of adapted their style to the more modern style r&b that ursh has been going for (as opposed to 'confessions' stuff) and still did better tracks than polow & danja & bangladesh etc

durpi & bryan michael cox w/ a dope one here -- would've sounded good on confessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipYHHfbDXY&feature=PlayList&p=D03BC5C3EA697FC7&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=8

gr8tly appreciate the last few posts, kindof out of the loop wrt music in 2010 but nicki minaj on that cassie track is just bad imo

i don't know if i can even bring myself to check out DNOMYAR V RAYMOND at this point, too many other new albums that i already like to listen to

it's a worthless album pretty much except for the tracks that i posted! (and "mars vs venus" which brainwasher posted)

i also gr8tly appreciate the last few posts, hard for me to remember what i already wrote a week ago sometimes

rich 4/4's usher rvw btw, featuring a v cute closing paragraph. (interesting faves too.)

sad that wiki lied to me about tricky producing 'pro lover'!! happy that it turns out j-lack of 'get it shawty' fame did 'okay' though.

Hey guys, I've been bored of r&b for a few months and not paying attention except for like Sade/Erykah/whatever. What's did I miss?

Very little, I think. The new Future of R&B mixtape (vol. 31, I think, with Jay Sean) has a lot of nice stuff on it. The Raheem DeVaughn I thought was a disappointment, though. Very schizophrenic. The new Usher album has a few more decent songs on it than I think this forum gives it credit for, especially in its final half ("Guilty" is almost up there with "Foolin' Around" and "Papers), but probably isn't worth buying.

I guess the onus is on the new Erykah Badu album to tide me over until Love King, and thankfully, it actually seems up to the challenge.

Anybody know anything about Dondria (http://www.myspace.com/dondrianicolemusic)? I've been hearing "You're The One" on the radio, and it's pretty charming. She has a very sweet voice.

Trey Songz "Neighbors Know My Name" is on repeat on DC radio every 20 minutes.

yeah, the Trey Songz overkill is neverending around here, it feels like. i mentioned on the TS thread that they're also playing the shit out of "You Belong To Me," which isn't even on most copies of his album.

the only way i can cope with "Neighbors" is by mocking the ridiculous way he says "knock knock knock" at the beginning of the song every time it comes on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-eFITGzQ8

I checked this out because of the J. Cole feature and was presently surprised by this Miguel dude... he has a really nice voice, laid back production thanks to Salaam Remi... I'm about to give his free mixtape a listen:

http://www.zshare.net/download/50363548fced8a31

Anybody know anything about Dondria (http://www.myspace.com/dondrianicolemusic)? I've been hearing "You're The One" on the radio, and it's pretty charming. She has a very sweet voice.

― Evan R, Monday, April 5, 2010 7:40 PM (3 days ago)

She's pretty cool, I've been following her on youtube for a while now, since before she got signed to JD... she's recorded a bunch of singles ("Boy Stop" with Bow Wow was pretty cool) but nothing has really caught on.. I think "You're The One" could be it for her though, it's a great song. I don't know if signing with JD was the best move tho, same thing with Brandon Hines (who recently signed to JD)....

really digging this snippet from the next RichGirl single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihTmlOmxyOs

that's good -- sounds like a keri hilson song

btw ciara is the new electrik red

get excited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4pg1CeHLQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxlmmJqOV2w

all three leaked tracks are amazing

"ride" is d-_-b

luda's verse is ^__^

"ride" is massive -- it's like "luv songs" morphed into a grinding trunk rattler

it also has that stuttering vocal thing from "she needs my love" (i think)

i love the screwed part at the beginning

catch me in the mall, you know i buy it out
g5 plane... yeah i fly it out
ass in the back look like lacs sittin on 28s
naw you can't get her if you ain't got plenty cake
atl georgia, booties look like this size
23 waist, pretty face, thick thighs

so.big.

whoa, ciara comin out on some hardcore rap shit, did not expect that but hot damn

the other song i'm not really feeling

i'm guessing that second ciara one's going to end up being two seperate songs right? even though the first rapp half is lol smh whatever, part of me almost wants them to stay that way just to further mine the weird swivel-eyed wounded paranoia vibe that 'i'm up in the bank' seemed to inadvertantly have - i can't really see myself much caring for any purely braggin cici tracks the same way i would with electrik red otherwise.

'ride' is just tedious imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlE91KIbPz0

feeling this!!