A UK LIFERS SPEAKS ON WHAT I SAID ABOUT THE KANYE R&B COMMENT

Debonair says
21 Jun 14, 3:06am

@JD I don’t think that’s why hip hop crushed RnB. RnB was doing very well through out the 90s. What I think happen is this and you would know more about this than me JD but I think in the 90s you still had RnB people running radio and so they made room for the records. Starting in the late 90 and through 2000s. Hip Hop peoples started to get those head jobs at urban radio and their biased is towards hiphop. So that’s why a track can’t get play now without a rapper. Why songs are more explicit more than ever now because hip hop was always more explicit. Now the only place RnB records get broke that don’t fit this new paradigm is on non urban stations. Urban radio didn’t break Happy, All of Me, Blurred Lines, or JT’s project. This is what I see the problem with the way it’s going now. Just because black artists in the US is on this “f*ck bitches, get money” and “I don’t love these hoes. I just f*cked these hoes” ish. Doesn’t mean the rest of the world is on that ish? People still want to hear about falling in love and being in love and heartbreak. RnB has always dominated that genre worldwide but black people are throwing it away. So motherf*ckers shouldn’t get mad when other people pick RnB up and win big with it. Whether it’s a white boy from the UK or the US or some Koreans killing it in Asia with RnB records. That’s right it’s mad RnB records in Kpop. Don’t get mad because your threw the art form away while living in your These Hoes Ain’t Loyal world.

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  1. It’s never been thrown away, but it’s taken a back seat in terms of getting dollars… Thankfully it’s coming back and grateful that the two are beautiful alone and or combined…. Music is beautiful, amazing, liberating, vibrant, sensational and more than I wanna type.. IT’S A BLESSING/GIFT TREASURE IT BY ENJOYING AND APPRECIATING IT.

  2. I agree with you 100% @Debonair ..
    As a genre and culture we’ve stop exposing the youth to actual music. The absence of real Singers (singers without autotune, singers that can sing in more than one tone, singers that understand harmony ) and absence of actual instruments has dumb down the audience to accepting autotune and arpegiated synths as the standard. 808’s have replaced bass guitars on R&B records, That’s Crazy!! When you watch an awards show and you see the same artist in every category, where’s the separation?? I know music is about evolution and growth but we’re not growing, we moving sideways and not exposing our future to the brilliant sound of music.

  3. Well put!!

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