Omarion, "Temptation," 3:02-3:12.
― Andy K, Friday, 8 January 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
that j*davey ep is really good, thx for the heads up brainwasher.
just got round to the robin thicke album - i really like it! weird, i was always kind of turned off by him before, but i LOVE his feather-lite vocals here.
really want to reiterate how great that lloyd ep is - gorgeous full-sounding production (looked it up and it seems it's by several different people, which i wouldn't have guessed), amazing melodies which just roll out with such confidence, really judicious use of hip-hop samples...lloyd is on top form too.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 10 January 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Another Usher leak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yPHvHftYn4
Usher and Polow are on a roll
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 11 January 2010 08:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that lloyd ep is amazing. which of his albums is worth getting?
― dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
r&b heads don't forget to vote in the ilx poll!
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao - i quite like both of lloyd's albums but tbh i don't recall either of them hitting me as hard and as immediately as this new ep
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HciTQU8h-w
love this
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Friday, 22 January 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that's good! think it's kinda old tho
― k3vin k., Friday, 22 January 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Anybody hear the new Raheem Devaughan mixtape? I'm curious about it. He's also got a new official cd "Masterpeace" coming soon. According to this Chris Richards Washington Post interview he's gonna have some songs with Marvin Gaye/Curtis Mayfield style serious political lyrics-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012900268.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 February 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
much as i loved Raheem's last album "Text Messages" and "Bulletproof" were so shitty that I can't really muster much interest in his new stuff
― some dude, Monday, 1 February 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, bulletproof is so heavily steeped in those influences, but so devoid of their depth
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 1 February 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hq_zeZGoo
seriously what has happened to Usher's career? this shit is depressing
― some dude, Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
"daddy's home" saddens me so much -- i've got 'confessions' in the car cd player right now - RIP
― birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah my mind just boggles, like "Papers" was #1 on the R&B chart, you don't call that a teaser and not make a video unless you have something amazing in the chamber as the real single, instead it's some shit with Plies that even Plies didn't bother to show up to the video shoot for
― da Condom FATHER (some dude), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
no thoughts on the new janelle monae single?
― birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 February 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the name?
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13883-tightrope-ft-big-boi/
― birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 February 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i LIKEi wish the beach house guys on the left hand side would quit going up and down and miming intercourse
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont really like the new monae, too saadiq-does-motown ish
― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Friday, 12 February 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
she wishes
― some dude, Friday, 12 February 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't mind her blatant ripoffs as long as the end result is a good time
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
she opened for saadiq at some shows, I think
i'm almost positive she performed that when i saw her ~9 months ago. it's aight i guess
― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Saturday, 13 February 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
really like the new raheem devaughn single - nothing he'd done before had particularly grabbed me but this is very nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMwNWoo3vpw
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this is really nice -- what's it sampling tho? it's bothering me... (either that or the piano line & horns sound so classic that i can't believe they aren't sampled)
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
reminds me of a slicker version of 'take me higher' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfU0AM0-0I0 (KeAnthony, formerly Cruna)
― no fear, Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ne-yo demoing an apparent future janet track - "rock with you"
― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Sunday, 14 February 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.zshare.net/download/72468852a9c393de
ne-yo demoing an apparent future janet track from two years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY7Qc_VMKmk
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 February 2010 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The Reverend (rev) wrote this on thread //////////////shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part I: 2008 TRAX)\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ on board I Love Music on Feb 7, 2009
my tracks (ordered):
Juan Maclean, The - Happy HouseLil Wayne - A MilliErykah Badu - The CellCrazy Cousinz - Bongo JamGrind Mode - I'm So HighHood Headlinaz F/ Jackie Chain & Jhi-Ali - Rollin'Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)Janet Jackson - Rock With UYoung Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put OnSolange Knowles - I Decided Pt. 1Hot Stylz F/ Yung Joc - Lookin' BoyEnur Feat. Natasja - Calabria 2008Jim Jones - Pop ChampagnePortishead - Machine GunRoots, The - 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)Ne-Yo - CloserTreasure Fingers - Cross The DancefloorLloyd - Girls Around The WorldWiley - Wearing My RolexJazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 February 2010 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
not really sure whether it sounds more or less completely totally gay with ne-yo singing it tbh
Usher mini-concert before the NBA Allstar game tonight was not impressive. "More" seems like he's been listening to power ballad singers and soundtracks to recent Disney things. Not a good look.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 February 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
recent Usher is so u_u
― The Reverend, Monday, 15 February 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Really? I like his stints on Fed Up and Spotlight and Little Freak a lot.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 15 February 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't tell if that's a selforksparody or not
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 February 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
u tell me.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 15 February 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw ne-yo live last night & he was awesome. sadly i missed ryan leslie due to, idk, not knowing what the time is or what time things start or minor details like that :( ne-yo was pretty awesome anyway.
anyway, ne-yo's valentine's day tips!!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
what's not to like about little freak and want her body. they both good! granted what leaked as the raymond album is weak as hell but still!
― ramadaan muhammad asalaamica rasoul allah supana watallah (jk), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Carolina Chocolate Drops cover "Hit Em Up Style"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKTXJUYiAT4
― Nagl Nagl Nagl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 February 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
part of their regular set actually
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 15 February 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
dont u have a forks thread for this stuff yet
― average gangsta rap from average gangstas (deej), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda like "Want Her Body" but Usher doing a song with LA The Darkman kinda underlines the whole 'what the fuck is happening with his career' thing, it's like he's determined to collaborate with every half-famous bum rapper out right now.
― the cold bieber open (some dude), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
deej dont u have a swag thread for your stuff yet
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
heh i quite liked that la the darkman cut just for the randomness tho, like if ursh is gonna underline his cluelessness then let it be a entertainingly squiggly line like that at least. (ignore all this if darkman is actually out there generating twitter mixtape heat or whatever these days.)
seems kinda weird to say it but usher is just too old/established in his virtues to be pulling off this young man hype shit again and make another 'yeah!' now. also slightly too much of a weirdo too - i think only other strange dudes who also happened to be recovering from a divorce from their moms were ever gonna feel the everyman realness of that 'papers' bullshit.
i mean i'm not saying dude has to aim at some maxwell/sade level now (not least cos that supposedly grown-up shit on here i stand was fucking terrible) but if he had any grace or self-awareness to throw some money and conviction into it there's a pretty wide expanse of middle ground he can quite easily inhabit, that the public (even *gasp* the kids) would happily follow him into - i'd have to check the record books but i think they used to call it r&b.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
for a start how hard would it be to sweep up 14 of these 879 usher-ready cuts lying around gathering dust on ne-yo's mp3 blogleak cutting floor and give them a bit of hot producer slap n tickle? not very, i'm guessing. (remind me again what that particularly egregious one was that lex found tail end of last year?? that was pretty good.)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post
Carolina Chocolate Drops cover "Hit Em Up Style"-Whiney
I'll pile on--Whiney they were doing that cover in 2008.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i do agree with rtc that usher could definitely hit the same grown man but not old man 'niche' that ne-yo does -- it takes a certain amount of grace & charm and maybe usher just doesn't know how to convey those things anymore because everything he's done has been so ham-handed from "daddy's home" to "love in this club" to even stuff i like like "papers"
i mean he had a song called "moving mountains" ffs -- the lush sorta disco stuff that ne-yo does would suit well imo
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i'm not sure - to be fair usher is probably right thinking he's still in a (pretty unique) position where he can aim younger than ne-yo stylistically, or at very least can be going for something similar to 'closer' let's say. ideally he should be in competition with timberlake, but with neyoian song content i guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9PBlxVWQeE&fmt=34
this is that offcut i was asking about - sounds pretty explicitly like an usher guidetrack now i listen to it again, heh.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
if you still wanna hear disco usher though holla back at a 1996!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GQiWmXhvok&fmt=35
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
*folds arms*
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i do think prime timba/neps was a bit of a golden age obv, in terms of innovation as well - but there's no excuse for paid critics to drop the entire genre like they did when that ended.
i kind of feel that music across the board has gotten a lot more personality-driven, that you're a lot less likely to see random one-off singles (or if you do, they're because they flop and the trailed albums never emerge, eg richgirl). but idk, i don't really care about pandering to people's motivation - i think a lot of people expect hot r&b hitz to be delivered to them on a silver plate, and claim they have no time to go looking for them themselves, even as they go looking for music in all other genres. fuck 'em!
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 27 December 2010 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ummm lex don't fuck 'em, some of us work in jobs that aren't designed around hearing new r&b. hell, i'm currently working two jobs that aren't. i just don't have time to do anything other than read this thread and usually even then i get *months* behind on my bookmarks.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 27 December 2010 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i get the righteous indignation that comes from having a toybox stocked with incredible playthings and everyone's all like "oh i don't play with those anymore". motherfucker, they're fun!
― it Terribel !!! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 December 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
cannot overstate how key 'love you long time' on that jazmine album is - it may be far from the best song qua song on there but it comes at the precise moment when, just as your suspension of disbelief starts to flag and you begin to tire of the retro kiss-chase, the thing grabs you by the lapels like NO, REALLY REALLY THOUGH
― r|t|c, Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh absolutely, really felt the euphoria of that moment on my first listen of the album
― some dude, Monday, 27 December 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
wow @ this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQj4Hs7v9E
reminds me of Surface "Happy" + Daydream-era Mariah.
― the nutwasher (The Brainwasher), Monday, 27 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
WOAH WOAH WOAH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ys9zgnqzys
― the nutwasher (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
chase n. cashe is a dope producer
― the nutwasher (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Drink my Pain Away is great!
― it Terribel !!! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah good looking on both of those bw, really feeling the keyshia
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
chase n. cache is one person?
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
say it out loud
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ah
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
that always gets me in trouble
the cover of the keyshia album is abominable
song rocks tho
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, Keyshia Cole released an album last week? i didn't even know she was, like, getting ready to drop an album or had a single out or anything.
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the single was a minaj feature that wasn't really very good at all
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
musta had to clean out a whole wig store to shoot the video for that
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
the minaj/cole single set up camp on 106 and park for the past month
― it Terribel !!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
aw man, I had no idea fantasia attempted suicide earlier this year :(
― dayo, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mp3waxx.com/jobfolders/lloydpattilabelle/blast-page.html
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
that is great, love the change he made to the chorus (instead of going for that high note when he says "HEAD" like in the OG, which was kind of grating as much as I like the song)
― the nutwasher (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i kinda miss the yodel
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that's dope and i din't care for the original version
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i will pretty much rep for anything that uses "love, need, and want you"
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that incorporation is on point
this is great obv but i prefer the original, i love the og chorus, that shit just soars
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
can't really stand the og chorus tbh
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yeh lloyd strains himself way too much on the og
― dayo, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
cool rmx
original chorus is dope imo
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Friday, 31 December 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
can't find an mp3 of drink my pain away = i must be slippin
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
rip dirpy
― k3vin k., Friday, 31 December 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously though, dirpy was a lifesaver all this year
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
been using some fallback services, but nothing so simple and workable.anyways, just got it so
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
can you hook me up with the mp3? all the links I've found are dead :(
― the nutwasher (The Brainwasher), Friday, 31 December 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
vote in my poll yall: best R&B radio hits of the year
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Friday, 31 December 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:24 PM (1 week ago)
i did not even recognize the sample in the og until right now!!!
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
the shame
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I just realized what's so dope about "Bottoms Up" is that it's an R&B song that sounds like "O Let's Do It".
― i don't even vacuum, i'm roomba pimpin (The Reverend), Saturday, 8 January 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't hear any similarity at all between those songs
― some dude, Saturday, 8 January 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto; love bottoms up and hate o lets do it
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hey forks did you get my email (sent awhile ago)?
― flopson, Saturday, 8 January 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think so; regarding what? Wanna resend?
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
resent
― flopson, Saturday, 8 January 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
thx!
― flopson, Saturday, 8 January 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hey what did y'all think of bilal's "airtight revenge" ?
there's some incredible things on that record.
― sisilafami, Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that record, esp. "All Matter".
As far as "Bottoms Up" & "O Let's Do It". They both share similar a rhythmic thrust and sonic palette.
― flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link