Rolling R&B Thread 2008

lots of good beats on the lloyd, not sold on the idea of him being able to carry a whole album yet, though

these dudes big reese & jasper cameron do anything besides his stuff?

so gonna start calling brainwasher "breezywasher" (maybe breezyweezy?)

rtc are you gonna post that the sky is falling twice for every one positive thing someone says about raheem devaughn? and have you noticed that all his previous videos sucked too?

http://www.defsounds.com/singles/Lloyd_ft_dj_khaled_the_game_ti_yung_joc_rick_ross_ace_hood_young_dro_pitbull_busta_rhymes_girls_around_the_world_remix

btw if anyone's come across any reggae rnb remixes this year holla cos i got nothing zip nada :(

only this 'can't help but wait' remix with mr vegas

feeling: donell jones 'don't trip', karina pasian 'can't find the words' and the leaked avant songs, esp 'when it hurts' and 'perfect gentleman'. the new mary mary single is kinda hot too.

anyone heard the noel gourdin album? 'the river' was real nice.

yeah, i've heard the gourdin. it's nice, nothing objectionable, but i can't see it getting much play besides for a bit of vibes round the house. the highlights are still the 07 material, by far: 'the river' dominates (he never approaches its gospel nobility again for some reason), 'sorry' is great despite, or maybe rather because of, being haha the most shameless dwele rip-off of all time, and youre the one didnt even make the cut.

yeah no scratch that - 'sorry' is incredible, gourdin could problyve made 10 classic albums with the effort he put into biting dude so uncannily

still lovin that peven everett btw - i didnt realise he was also like this sickly demo tape nutjob writing endless paranoid disses to kanye & pharrell and other ppl he thinks have ripped him off! my kinda guy!

i guess anyone who'd rap a gag as good/bad as "at the bar drinking / patrice russians" would be, though.

there's some really great stuff on the new lloyd album! feeling the house piano and fab backing vox on 'i'm wit it'

"party all over your body," "treat u good," "sex education,"... this album is really really damn good.

only questionable song is "have my baby," they should've kept "i need love" on instead of that.

"I wanna sex educate you" is totally my new pickup line.

Kelly Rowland has said she would like to collaborate with UK singer-songwriter Kate Nash.

The former Destiny's Child star also claimed that she is interested in working with Alphabeat, The Script and Guillemots.

"I definitely want a new sound so I am jamming in the studio with amazing musicians who just love music," she told the Daily Star.

"I've asked The Script to do a duet and The Guillemots have given me one of their tracks to listen to."

She continued: "I would love to do something with them or Alphabeat, and Kate Nash is dope."

Rowland also revealed that she is hoping her third LP will be "deeper" and more "inspiring" than her first two solo albums.

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Rowland also revealed that she is hoping her third LP will be "deeper" than her first solo album, Simply "Deep."

WHITE BEYONCE has a new song with Swizz and it sounds like all her other songs with Swizz but not as good.

link already dead

my bad, snatched it from somewhere. called "Catch A Case" but doesn't seem to be a lot online about it yet.

Google can't find it. : /

trust me, whenever you do hear it you'll be like "that wasn't worth clicking through more than 2 pages of search results".

sorry pevs but

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/specialreports/EFG/images/siren.gif whoaaaaaaa http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/specialreports/EFG/images/siren.gif

R Kelly's "Screamer" is sounding oh so nice to these ears. It has some excellent Prince-ly drums in it as well.

so, Peven Everett heads, what should I check out?

that janelle m. album's about to drop right??? whats up w/ it?

[1996] - Roy Davis Jr. & Peven Everett - Gabrielle [192vbr]

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01 - Roy Davis Jr & Peven Everett - Gabrielle (The Scroll Mix).mp3
02 - Roy Davis Jr & Peven Everett - Gabrielle (Tamborine Dub).mp3
03 - Roy Davis Jr & Peven Everett - Gabrielle (Words To Give By).mp3
04 - Roy Davis Jr & Peven Everett - Gabrielle (Live Garage Edit).mp3

it's not an album it's just a re-release of metropolis suite 1 with a couple of extra tracks

the hayden panettiere song sounds like it was written by hallmark card puppies. it's b-grade 'stars are blind' but fundamentally unhateable. she ain't gonna cheat on him no way.

video is ridic though. this woman is an actress, seriously? is she...good at acting, people who've seen her?

wrong thread.

i don't believe any other thread has really acknowledged it

the charts thread started to

anyway, Brandy's new single "Departed (Right Here With Me)" is really awesome, it's like Alicia Keys' "No One" if it wasn't awful + "Umbrella".

http://www.myspace.com/foreverbrandy

And Monica is back with a new single "Still Standing" which kind of sounds like MC "Side Effects" but it's really good nonetheless:

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

no it's more like, everything wrongly attributed to 'no one' correctly applies to that brandy tune.

'i bang like vehicular' featuring gza should be fun though.

WHEN THE RAIN IS FALLING DOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOWWOWOOOOOOOOWOWOOOOON

i thought i heard the beyonce song on the radio tonight. does it sound like a lloyd song?

I actually did eventually come around to "No One", kinda.

this one's a streeeeetch but... new timbo/t-pain, rumored for both shock value 2 and missy's new album

low quality live snippet, t-pain's part at the end sounds awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvleoGMC-IE

the best part of "no one" is when the synth comes in for the first time and it sounds like a really loud, wet fart

i wish someone would run this brandy song over

best part of "No One" is the end where it dissolves to just the trumpets and acoustic guitar, neither of which you ever noticed earlier in the track and have to wonder if they were there all along

the difference between the Brandy song and "No One" and "Umbrella" is that "No One" and "Umbrella" have hooks

i love that brandy song, didn't realise i'd been missing her rasp so much

I'd like to add my voice to whoever it was that recently said the Ursher album is, contrary to rumor, actually pretty good. He's just pikced weak singles. "Revolver" is a jammy jam.

yeah, i was gonna ask (brainwasher?) about that. sell it to me some more.

Could probably go on whatever dancehall thread there is now, but I flat out adore Toah's "Action" - so weird and yet so joyful, reminds me of prime-o Dave Kelly (actually, it may well be Dave Kelly). Plus I love deceptively sweet, sexually aggressive diva-jays.

Wait, that should be "Action" by Tosh.

choiiiiiice! way better than the overrated busy signal on that riddim.

i think it's just tosh vaguely channelling miss ting that brings the kelly out of it really - in other hands it is otherwise the decade old retro throwback that it is. 'action' itself feels like it could be a cover, but maybe i'm just thinking of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Xi_8mZZ8M

Haven't heard the Busy Signal version. Last Busy I heard - which i very much liked - was "Saviour Divine" on Swazzi. But then I like any Busy voicing which sounds like a sea shanty.

x-post yeah you're right the other quarter past twelve tracks I've heard don't sound nearly as much like Kelly at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-JeFw0caw

^ teh busy. (obviously an overrated busy is still 100x his nearest rival.) very much liked 'saviour divine' (more like sailor divine, indeed) at the time too - lenky's best in ages, don't know why crits came out so hard against it.

anyway, soz thread! here's alaine's recent 'spin mi', which is both r&b ready and also the kind of caribbeanized dj-repping we all go for one way or another. scratchy scratchy scratchy!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1729009140a1d353/

"Spin Mi" is great! Very comforting somehow - possibly those reassuring piano chords. She's such an airy vocalist too. The chorus is almost Kelly Rowlandish.

OTOH "I wanna feel your needle baby/scratchy sctatchy scratchy for me!" kinda disturbs me in that special extended metaphors in pop way.