Rolling R&B Thread 2008

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.

very comforting yeah! although presumably not to the world's dj who can only play it off a cd-r. xp: haha

since we basically seem to be going thru a mixtape i made the other day track by track - HI DERE THIS IS FANTASTIC

wow spin mi is awesome

really sexy like a nina sky song maybe

rofflez @ wayne brady having an album... on a scale of 1 to negative 10, how bad is this?

haha his whole career is justified by the chappelle show sketch

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6205/hooszr9.jpg

dig "Spin Mi"

also, it's time for tamyra gray to finally find success, amirite?

bumping this thread because Ne-Yo, Raphael Saadiq, Jazmine Sullivan and Jennifer Hudson are all releasing albums later this month and I'm hoping any/all of them will turn out to be worth buying.

the ne-yo is...some really nice tracks on it, the "gentleman" concept mostly works except where he confuses it with bootlicking. 'fade into the background', 'so you can cry' and 'mad' are initial favourites.

i was hoping to find out whether the jazmine is today but my promised copy hasn't turned up :(

still, the cover! <3

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RbD3Xk3vL._SS500_.jpg

are all of her songs on an island vibe or just the single? either way im pretty excited for it

so the new neyo & raphael saadiq joints are pretty good. i was worried about saadiq's turn toward paleosoul, but he pulls it off. "big easy" is a jam

a couple of the ballads on the neyo album are a bit treacly, but even if its not quite as good as his first, its way better than his second. all the uptempo numbers are good

well i'm sorry
i won't attend your pity party
i'd rather go have calamari

nb good calamari is like my favourite food ever

hate jazmine's album cover, they've been using that same promo pic over and over, but anyway the album is classic from what Ive heard and I will be buying a few copies on the 23rd.

Jennifer Hudson's album is shaping up to be pretty interesting, there's a duet with Fantasia (or Jazmine Sullivan... not sure which one they're going for) that sounds really great, "Giving Myself OVer To You" penned by Robin Thicke is on some classic Whitney/Aretha torch ballad steez, it's really good.. "Pocketbook" feat. Luda is awesome, so yeah... definitely looking forward to that.

Raphael's album is great, he definitely does the retro thing very well and it sounds authentic, but honestly I'm not a big fan of overly retro music.. like, what's the point? But it's a good album tho.

Ne-Yo's album is boring.

New Amerykah pt. 2 is dropping soon, excited for that, apparently she's working with Lil Wayne? Hmm...

A bunch of demos for Ciara's Fantasy Ride leaked, and that's sounding really interesting.. particularly "Echo" which could be massive. "Work" is hot too, and the single "Go Girl" with T-Pain...

Beyonce has two singles coming out within the next week or so, so there's that to look forward to..

Like half of Keri's album - which keeps getting pushed back - leaked, its sounds okay ("Slow Dance" and "Do It" are fire) but I dunno......

So yeah, pretty eventul 4Q. I'm excited.

hate jazmine's album cover, they've been using that same promo pic over and over

yeah was gonna say, does she let anyone photograph her without a hoodie on?

so there's solid word about the next Badu album now? even her wiki has said for months that Pt. 2 was due in July but obviously that never happened.