I wasn’t even gonna make a thread on this but I made a video talking about r&b this year. Niggas too cool for school. R&b missing a bunch but people rarely speaks how r&b used to be motivational and include social messages. Outside of the obvious problems r&b have, those motivational/socially conscious r&b songs used to be #1 songs in the country and now they don’t even exist

Has there been a "socially conscious r&b song" in the last 35 years?

You saying the genre is cooked when Leon Thomas wrote two of the best and most successful rnb songs this decade

Also this song super classic

Session players are expensive and a lot of artists are broke. Good production is expensive as ever. D'Mile gotta feed his family too, lol. The slant on relationships has changed and people are as sexless as ever as people spend less time in third places and more time on the internet.

The economic and social conditions for the R&B you're looking for are less and less.

“PND & Drake’s “$$4U” Is Now The Best Selling R&B Album Released In 2025”

Facts @op

Giveon coming. Both those singles been good. If Miguel ever drop we might have something too smh

Do you have a link to the tape?

s/o @Aquilla aka lon lon for putting us on

anyone know what the brazilian iykyk site is

wack ass mfer gatekeeping the link smh

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Dismantled hip-hop AND r&b

Blood Orange, Sampha, DAngelo, Thundercat, Paak and a few more have had socially conscious songs, and even some political

According to the comment on this vid (fire channel actually) it's this : threeheadsrecords.com.br/produto/faith-evans-faith-evans-unreleased/#

I ain't tryna pay for it though

crine

So weird how there's a subsect of music "fans" that will willingly sabotage artists they supposedly like just for weirdo attention seeking ego s***

whoever uploaded it had to pay 20$ to dl the songs so i’ll give them a pass this time..

"Outside of the obvious problems r&b have, those motivational/socially conscious r&b songs used to be #1 songs in the country"

So which one of those went number 1?

Lack of vocal prowess is a huge problem, especially when people have become more disconnected from the church.

@op

But I give credit to @Garcon who brought it to my attention. That man is a real one

Quick question? Can people still have vocal prowess and still be disconnected from the Church?

That's if they practice vocals daily and study more classic R&B or Gospel singers.

Damn she sampled SOS Band before Don Toliver

Bro?
Was for a movie but still