Rolling R&B Thread 2008

lol @ musiq sounding 2006

so ur saying you got no beef with what dream and carr do with their voices? sorry, i thought otherwise. i guess i have a similar thing going right now with sean garrett - 'girlfriend ringtone' (another hot cruisy los beat) has a lot going for it (like 'grippin' did too i suppose) but i just cannot get past the guy's awful nasal straining. (though it's also got also a wayne verse on it, and lloyd single aside i don't wanna hear him on r&b any more either.)

turbo 919 is not a good album anyway.

-- r|t|c, Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:57 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

oh I got beef with what The-Dream does with his voice, all the tics and repeated syllables are a big part of my hate but a lot of it is just the voice itself. I guess what I'm saying is to me Lee Carr right now is just one song and the vocals take a backseat to the beat, I like the song but for the moment I have no real opinion on him. I keep going through a weird thing with "Grippin'" where I love it one listen and hate it the next back and forth, but Garrett's voice is definitely too annoying for me to want to hear much more from him as a performer.

lmao @ lloyd's hairstyles in the all around the world video

idk what brings more lolz, the perm or the long, straight hair (weave?)

cool vid tho

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, June 5, 2008 7:49 PM (Thursday, June 5, 2008 7:49 PM) Bookmark Link

oh man... gay kung-fu hero vs Jim Jones Jr.

also shiny tie space preppy! really there's nothing i don't like about that song n vid.

new spot with dfb passes the time nicely too.

kells' dwele rvw is on point, i think. was wary of some of the album's lighter touches at first, but it's all good now; luh-luh-love ultraaaaaaaaaa upthread #1, then 'shady' #2, and yeah i'll admit i was slow on the uptake with 'i'm cheating'.

Will Kelly Rowland get a break from being Beyonce's weave carrier and actually get a good record out? These are things I want to know.
WTF about Cassie and Lil Wayne?
The-Dream does with his voice, all the tics and repeated syllables are a big part of my hate but a lot of it is just the voice itself
Yeah I've definitely got beef with that.

k-ro's already had a good single, a good album and a good bonus house remix out, and they all mostly got the public bozack - the fuck more is she to do? if all she ever does from henceforth is go to weatherspoonses with amerie i won't be mad.

haha i dunno why i thought to bring bozack back! as it goes though i did wanna say that this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T75HGGbQJmQ

is only growing as the secret summer jam beatjack sister to lloyd/wayne and the 'just fine' rmx. (if i got huffy about tinny cassie comparisons this is the reason, among others.)

GRIPPIN :D

ive read one review of the album tho and it was not a favorable one

yeah I don't think Kelly R is a compelling sympathy case anymore -- the group's over so if she still chooses to get her heaviest rotation with a cameo in a Beyonce video then she's made her bed and she can lie in it. after all the hubbub and that song with the permasmirk from Gym Class Heroes, did the re-release of Ms. Kelly even drop in the U.S.?

anyway the new Michelle Williams song is nice, good to see her moving on with her life post-Heath Ledger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKDyM2fzjN4

'girlfriend ringtone' is kinda tantalisingly close to being great actually - maybe a minor re-edit would do the trick. 'grippin' is still balls though.

was thinking nu skool los r&b dudes should maybe just save some money and JUMP ON IT, ON IT, ON IT instead

tbh it is probly already los' beat what with him being some doctor who motherfucker jamming with inner city in 88 and whatnot

(actually wait it is produced by "THE MASTER oc" oh shi-)

haha a+++++++++ ledger gag

Beyonce has that 'ambition...look in her eyes' (to paraphrase Kanye) but Kelly does not. Simple. Michelle Williams song is nice, good to see her moving on with her life post-Heath Ledger
Lol!

Also, do we like LaLa? She's like a more ghetto (much) older version of Jojo also reminds me of JLO circa 'Love Don't Cost A Thing'
Sprung On A Thug
Homegurlz
Also, your thoughts on Asia Crus;
Selfish

Shiny tie space prep lookin' Lloyd
Gay Kung Fu master lookin' Lloyd
BALLLLLLLLLLLLIN'!
Jim Jones Jr. lookin' Lloyd

hahahaha

^^ classic material

the Lloyd song kinda rips off its melody from 112's "Dance With Me"

poorly phrased, but you get the gist

I've thought the same thing, too, although I have no idea if they're jacking the melody from some shared old source. that song and the rest of Part III = new millenium R&B classix in my house.

jazzy in the studio:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tj4ZaSlzJo8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9vQIvnpw3pY

FEARLESS in stores September 16th FUTURE CLASSIC ACT LIKE YOU KNOW

oh and Amerie is working with NO ID and Rich Harrison on her new album for Def Jam

http://www.myspace.com/raphaelsaadiq

wow does that 2nd track sound like a marvin tribute or what

http://www.wyclef.com/images/Odyssey.jpg

lol @ ladies-only release party

^^ one dude who I have no problem with getting on some retro shit.

that Marvin-ish 2nd track is actually by a cat from Baltimore named CJ, his own page has some more good tracks.

hah was just bumping "still ray"

so obv cuz im too good for it so i never checked the chris brown album but 'forever' is a great single that obv sounds way gay, clubby and barely R&B

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59ko2_chris-brown-forever_music

well it's the single off the reissue (or whatever they call it) of the album so even if you weren't too good for it originally it wouldn't have mattered

it is good though, it's not one of his top 3 or 4 singles imo but good enough in the context of pop radio. weird for a polow production also.

its basically str8 up club music like that janet 'rock with u' joint
lovin it

i dont like it as much as 'kiss kiss' but its great

i dont know if this ever got posted in here or 07 r&b but this brown/t-pain song that i guess is leftover from the sessions they did for exclusive is pretty good. doesn't have the hitness at all of "kiss kiss" but would make a cool album track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmflIMdUE0

did anyone check the album btw? are the songs with big boi and wayne any good?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/145447713116d7aa/

i love you gifts remix!!

this is like music only rubber ducks can hear

big boi track on chris brown's is great, kinda think of it as the sad guy on the other side of mccartney 'leavin'

wayne track depends on yr jazze pha mileage - song is no particular shakes but really very nice all the same, as ever, i never know why people hate on the guy

so fucking hyped about hearing gifts remix when i get home.

jazze pha really is too hated on, i've come to the conclusion that he's really a relatively minor offender when it comes to talented producers who say obnoxious shit on most of their tracks.

yeah he probably needs a thread or poll of some sort, were it not for the thought that collating his tracks over the years seems like a charmless kind of thing to do. like, he just does his thing?

he was quite funny on "cooking with jazze" also! when i was really in no mind to be amused by it!

cb 'forever' is nice and happy and does not annoy for a change but won't be making me budge from my overall position on such matters i don't think

really slept on jennifer hudson 'spotlight' (though i don't blame myself particularly). the way it never goes in for the big pyrotechnic chorus you're steeling yourself for only seems to make it that much more persuasive as the song goes on; that kinda dulled everyday angst slowly gnawing away, and the having to say something about it, it's good.

re: the thicke single

THIS IS PINKYPIMP
A-YO.. THIS IS PINKYPIMP FROM ROMANIA N I GOT ONLY 1 THANG 2 TELL YA' MUH FU***Z THIS BEAT U JUST LISTENED 2 IS DA NEW HIT.. YEA .. DISCO BABY.. SEE DA DISCO AIN'T DEAD (YET :)) ) BUT THIS IS DA SHYTE.. DAMN IT SOUNDS SO GOOD.. PULL ME UP.. N PLAY DAT SH*T ...OOOOOH! YEAH!

^^i cosign

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Entertainment Weekly has the Hudson "Spotlight" track on their "must list" for this week and say it could be their summer jam. Not sure about the latter idea, but I do like the song and its retro/neo soul 'n' club flavor should help it reach lots of folks.

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Adoring Lloyd's "Your Love" - so gimmicky! So great!

aaaayo keri hilson

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1518071&vid=256719

i actually like this song a lot better now than when i originally heard it

still don't like that song but I'd blapp

I just heard Promise again and its dear god, amazing. Also Keri can do better but I hear her vid is gonna be hype.

you're qualified, let's do what freaks do

Keith Sweat's always got it.

ciara's 'high price' finally leaked proper, and haha i kind of love it! but only if the video costs 4 trillion dollars and is directed by matthew barney. he could call himself cremaster flex?

i imagine this was sorta what kelis was hoping for when she worked with bangladesh, whom tricky stewart has ripped off OUTRAGEOUSLY here - the beat's one thing, but doing like a gotterdammerung treatise on en vogue's masterpiece theatre seems more ooh la la bangladesh's perverse sense of humour.