ryuH

11h

They tried to duplicate it but they ain't balance the rap and r&b ratio right

Even Bryson himself lost the formula

All the imitations that came after was more like watered down r&b wearing a rap skin thats different

On THIS project specifically Bryson was rapping nearly as well as he was singing, best two-way R&B/Rap performance up to that point aside from Drizzy

Saw somebody say PND yall missing the entire point per usual because ya'll like to argue (hoe tendency fr lol)

PND was singing with autotune and it was immaculate, Bryson was LITTERALLY rapping AND singing, PND wasn't doing that

After this project I expected a flood of artists who were equally talented rappers and singers, the Drizzy dream fully realized, but it didn't happen sadly just a bunch of lazy mysogionists crooners dressed like rappers

whippet volverse

7h

such cap

during that time period, male R&B was already in a bit of a rut.. we had Miguel and the occasional Frank Ocean record but it's not like we had an abundance of men making pure R&B and having motion... to me, if that were the case, the Trapsoul wave wouldn't have had such an impact

and let's say you STILL wanna hate on people like Bryson, I feel like you gotta not only give the new acts grace for trying something new, but also hold the old guard accountable for their role in where the game went.

You gotta remember this was early digital, transitional period. It wasn't easy to get a big record with pure silky R&B, especially for a man. Most of the R&B singers you heard at the time, the first time we heard them was on the Radio, but not in their natural lane: from features on songs by RAPPERS.. Or they jumped on a trap leaning club joint.

Jeremih and Ty Dolla $ign were R&B guys who had incredible vocals but found their way in the club with DJ Mustard and Hitmaka and them. CB was able to put out pure R&B records on his albums for his Core, but he was also a singer whose bread and butter eventually became club records, especially after Fortune where he leaned heavily into EuroDance music. Ne-Yo is a GOAT and to me his discog is flawless, but even a stan like myself has to admit, once Ne-Yo jumped on Give Me Everything with Pitbull, he abandoned R&B and went Eurodance too. Usher did too! The Weeknd was out here but again, he was never PURE R&B. He was always left of that lane, due to his content, influences, etc.

The OGs and young guys who could've kept R&B pure all abandoned their traditional sounds to compete with rappers & popstars, and that left the door wide open for a Bryson Tiller, a PND, a 6LACK to pop in and steer the genre.

I don't know how you can act like Bryson doing an album that actually reflected where the youth culture Was and how modern relationships played out ruined the R&B genre.. just because he had some verses on there and wasn't Belting and crying on the beat doesn't mean the music wasn't good. It resonated for a reason.

ryuH

11h

They tried to duplicate it but they ain't balance the rap and r&b ratio right

Even Bryson himself lost the formula

All the imitations that came after was more like watered down r&b wearing a rap skin thats different

On THIS project specifically Bryson was rapping nearly as well as he was singing, best two-way R&B/Rap performance up to that point aside from Drizzy

Saw somebody say PND yall missing the entire point per usual because ya'll like to argue (hoe tendency fr lol)

PND was singing with autotune and it was immaculate, Bryson was LITTERALLY rapping AND singing, PND wasn't doing that

After this project I expected a flood of artists who were equally talented rappers and singers, the Drizzy dream fully realized, but it didn't happen sadly just a bunch of lazy mysogionists crooners dressed like rappers

insertcoolnamehere

18h

nah this s*** ruined male R&B for like a whole decade lol.