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I’d like to know when RnB was downgraded in the industry as well Jermaine!!! It would definitely explain why a lot of RnB artists aren’t getting the same airplay as everyone else. Its like they don’t respect the fact that they go through the same process of making a good cohesive album just like all the other genres. It also explains why Monica wasn’t picked for the RnB categories at the BET awards this year with that bangin album of hers. smdh I’m from the good old days when RnB music from the 70s n 80s ruled the radio. They didn’t hafta crossover like today’s RnB music to to do the same thing. It was nice seeing the Essence Music Festival recognize RnB artists the way they did, but we need everyone else to do the same. I need my RnB folks back like Jaheim, Joe, etc. I WILL be buying Dondria’s album because I like what I heard which is a rarity for me when it comes to new artists in this day and age of gimmick music and I’ll be promoting it with my fb folks. They know I don’t advertise just for anyone. Also, with DC radio (WPGC 95.5) playing You’re The One as much as they do, she’ll do well in this area…its the radio heads like the folks in NYC that have me wondering how she’ll fair there with their biased selves.

HAPPY B-DAY….WHITE GUY (JOHNNY)!!!!

AS FOR GR8 r&b…IT SEEMS LIKE ARTIST WANT TO BE RAPPERS, THEY DON’T WANT THAT GR8 R&B, THEY WANT SONG THAT BUMP IN THE CLUBS!!! NO SLOW JAMS, NO BABY MAKING MUSIC..JUST MUSIC THAT WILL MAKE U DANCE…

RESPONSE TO TEAM DONDRIA POST

KEY WORDS- TWITTER MARKETING(AKA-VIRAL MARKETING)

1- Do TWITTER INTERVIEWS with bloggers like NECOLE BITCHIE(over 100K followers) Directly connects with her fan base

2- Have TWITTER Chats with hear TOUR PARTNERS TREY SONGZ(Over 800K Followers) & MONICA(oVER 300K Followers) even if they are CALCULATED CHATS about the upcoming tour

3- HAVE HER(DONDRIA) CONSULT WITH KERI HILSON(Over 670K followers) VIA TWITTER ABOUT being a new female artist & kind of ask for ADVISE

4-PROFILE PICS- Like you said get as many people(Dondria & Your Fans) change there AVATARS to the album cover

5- VIRAL OUTLETS- Since this is basically a viral marketing campaign, Utilize all outlets such as FaceBook, Myspace & Youtube9All should have her ALBUM COVER AS THERE PROFILE PICTURES, INCLUDING YOUR(JD) MYSPACE PAGE) if not Everyday Every other day with constant updates

6- Streamline all Dondria tagged postings here on global14 under the Dondria section on the header where you find the mixtape coz essentially Dondria doesnt have a website & if people come to global14 all they will find is the mixtape

7-Dondria LTL- Youtube Video Countdown with her interacting with fans during her different promotional shows & travels like Keri did before her album came out

8- The global 14 upper header shouls be dondria album cover also stating the release day of the album 8/17/10

9- At the end of the day its all about creating fans interest in Dondria’s music & informing them on the release date of the “Dondria Vs Phattffatt” & most of all for them to but the record when it comes out 8/17/10

10-This is just a start to generate your interest in my ideas so we can work together, like i’ve mentioned before Most artists don’t fail coz of lack of good music (Example R.Kelly) but because of poor strategic marketing ideas & execution… I can add more ideas for Dondria, Johnta, & the rest of the SoSoDef Camp
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AS Of Today(Thursday) i’m heading back to Cleveland from ATL

I agree R&B has gotten less respect, nut is do to the fact that we don’t have any artist that sing. There are very few good singers out. That why we love the Usher’s, Trey Songz, Dondria’s and Johnta Austin’s because they are all real R&B. There no longer real R&B out just lookers. On the Sandra Bulluck thing woman love bad boys because they are the salt on the meat. The give us flavor, and we may get mad at some of the things he does, but he put it down. If I was here I wouldn’t have divorced him based on him cheating cause she knew that already. Every woman know when her man cheating, and if it’s really yours than claim it. I think he still hittin it. I know I would the best sex comes from a bad boy, or a real dude.

R&B gets no respect because the world we live in has been desensitized to anything that resembles love… R&B’s foundation is in making music that has solid messages of love, relationships etc… now a days all the ppl want is a quickie, skeeet skeeet and a funky a$$ stripper song. R&B will make a comback when love makes a come back! As Gerald has passed and other legends the responsibliity of carrying the torch was left in the hands of our generation and we mickey-moused it and made it watered down and commercial. We used to have real women and men doing R&B now we got gay a$$ niggas trying to sing a hetrosexual message and the ppl ain’t falling for it…

I don’t know anything about Jessie James or Sandra Bullock’s love life, I don’t care to know. But I would answer your question and let you know the reason why girls go for bad boys. Bad Boys got swag, that’s all you need to know. There are many reason’s why girls like Bad Boys. If you think about it, it’s pretty much the confusion that women have on man in general. When we are young, our parents didn’t teach us the kinds of man or women that are out there for stable/healthy/balance relationships. Their mind set isn’t as matured as others who know and are aware of certain people that’s out there you know what I’m saying? Once we get older and we been through all the crap with man in relationships that we choose to be with, we start to get frustrated and that is when women start to realize that we need a good man in our life. Not everyone knows a good man OR women when they see one. Not every knows a quality/characteristics of a good person.

Us people always make mistakes and eventually we all learn from it one day.

I dealt with commit phobics in the past. Most man may need to evaluate themselves and find out why most of their past relationship didn’t work out. It’s not because women don’t love you for who you are and it’s not because women want to change you. It’s because they can’t trust you and It’s because they can’t tolerate the things you do. If a women has to complain, than something is wrong with you. You doing things that you not suppose to do like cheat, lie, etc… Yes, these are the kind of men that are very insecure, confused, immature and shallow when it comes to women and etc. They think that if they was to deal with so many women at once, they feel/think they can find that girl that they want base off of how good looking she is and how good she is in bed. These are the least things that matter. When you have that kind of mindset, you become shallow. You start to think negative about most women, and where you stand with most women because of your past with women. With some man, they start to feel that being nice doesn’t work for them, so they turn to another outlet which is to not to take relationships seriously or not to be in a relationships at all. This happens when They start feeling suffocated and fail to bear the burden of the relationship.
They feel as if they are trapped and in no way do they want to enter into a long-term relationship. Finally, they look for opportunities to put an end to the relationship when men no longer feel satisfied/stimulated in their current relationships. Instead of ending it, they deliberately try to hurt their partner and show valid reasons for the relationship to fail. I have male friends that criticize several characteristics in women that they dislike, which causes the man to generalize too much. Just like how women generalize man for being jerks, man generalize women for being ****es.
The problem with most women is that they stay in relationships that isn’t working out and that isn’t healthy for us. What keeps us women not leaving is love. We don’t want to leave a relationship that we started in the first place because we think that if we was to change our man to make them better man that can be faithful, loyal, trustworthy, and respectful that things will be all better in the relationship. If a man can’t be a one women man, than he is not mentally and emotionally ready for a relationship. He has to mature and realize why he became the man that he is today that no women wants. He needs to figure out why his relationships always a constant battle for him. He needs to learn how take responsibility for his actions. He need to find himself and do some soul searching.

We all have to learn how to value the opposite sex. We have to set boundaries for ourselves and we have to set a high standard for ourselves in order to find the one that we’re looking for.
Physical attraction is one thing, but having an mental/emotional attraction to someone is what matters the most because that is where LOVE comes about.

FOR ALL OF YOU WHO ARE HAVING PROBLEMS IN SEAKING/LOOKING FOR SOMEONE GOOD IN YOUR LIFE, LISTEN UP…
To all the confused women out there, do not make yourself easy or available. Man love a challenge. Naw, I’m just kidding hahaha. But my advice is… STOP DATING/SETTLING FOR EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLES, LOSERS, DOUCHEBAGS, BAD BOYS, PLAYERS, COMMITMENT PHOBICS, BABY DADDY DRAMAS, WOMEN BEATERS, DRUG ADDICTS, SEX ADDICTS, & WOMANIZERS, and you won’t ever have to suffer the emotional distress again! And for the guys, stop dating/settling for EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLES, PSYCHOS, GOLD DIGGERS, SPOIL BRATS, PARTY GIRLS, SLUTS, BABY MOMMA DRAMAS, MEN BEATERS, USERS, LAIRS, BOYFRIEND STEALERS, & TWO TIMERS and you won’t ever have to suffer the emotional distress again either. Gosh cheeses! Stop settling for less!

ABOUT THE MUSIC

BLAME THE WHITE PEOPLE. THEY HAVE TOOK OVER THE BLACK INDUSTRIES AND HIRED PRODUCERS WHO MAKE EURO POP MUSIC. EVEN THAT TRANCE FUSION INCORPORATED WITH RAP, R&B, AND POP, ROCK IS IN NOW. US PEOPLE WHO MUSIC THAT LIKE THAT SHIT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS NOW SOUNDING THE SAME. THE REASON WHY THEY DO THAT IS BECAUSE THEY KNOW TRANCE IS POPULAR AND IS NOW BANDED IN CLUBS. MUSIC BELONGS IN ITS OWN GENRE.

I would agree with MISS BENJIE on the bad boy thing, so tell us JD is that what made Janet fall for you. I felt that you got a little emotional about the Jessie James and Sandra Bullock issue and if she know what she was getting into or if he hid that side of him. To me your emotions sound like it was coming from your personal life, I’m just saying.

I think it’s because (and Im not trying to say anything bad about the music. I’ve loved all forms of music since I was 2yrs old) mixing R&B and Hip Hop. Instead of them seeing it as an R&B song, they see it as a Hip Hop and R&B song. Remember R&B was R&B and Hip Hop was Hip Hop. It’s not like that any more, R&B and Pop use to go hand in hand now they work against each other. what I’m saying is there was a time when you couldn’t get the two mixed up. It was what it was and we don’t have to much of that now because of everyone seeing Hip Hop and R&B as one genre, not knowing that these are to different types of music and they have been combined for many years and many years to come. im not knocking Hip Hop and R&B being combined its just that i think people need to know what REAL R&B is again.

Hello,

@ TONGADUDE …..THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE….NEPHEW THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE!!!!! IF JD DON’T GET AT YOU ON THE NOTE ALONE THAT YOU HAVE …..A BIT OF THE IT……
I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’LL THINK!!!!!! tHE INDUSTRY WANTS TO DEAL WITH ONLY PEOPLE THEY KNOW.. IT’S LIKE WORKING FOR A BIG CORP….YOU SEE MORE OF THE FAMILY OF THE WHITE FOLK THAN ANYONE AND HELL THEY BEEN EMPLOYED SINCE THE AGE OF 2. AND THEN YOU WONER WHY R&B DOESN’T GET RESPECT………..RESPECT YORSELF AND STOP SAYING YES TO EVERYTHING JUST CAUSE YOU HERE CHING AT THE END!!!! MY OPINION

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HAPPY B-DAY JOHNNY…AKA THE WHITE GUY!!!!!!!! 🙂

I too thought that a #1 record was a #1 record period…No MATTER what the genre, but I have also noticed that over the past couple of years that people tend to only think it counts if it’s #1 on Billboard *SMDH*.
IMHO part of it is because of what @Ace La said about the lines between Hip-Hop & R&B being blurred. Another part is that my observation has been that it mainly falls on R&B artists that have had their songs crossover & gained a bunch of “Pop” hits…u don’t see people like Jill Scott, Maxwell,etc.. being told “So What, u just got another #1 R&B song” (or maybe u do).

& that leads to another point….I don’t know who makes the final decision on what an artists lead single is but if I was going to put my finger on “WHO” made it so that R&B gets disrespected the way it does lately I’d start with whoever that is! Take Usher for instance, his last 3 albums had club tracks as lead singles but to me Here I Stand & Confessions were more R&B albums as a whole, he’s not the only 1 because Mariah & Monica did it too(not with Here I Am though ;))……the implication that sends to fans is that the top of that Billboard 200 is what’s most important. It also happened when u did “Better Start Talking” with Donell Jones….now as much as I LOVE that song, when I listened 2 the whole Jouney of a Gemini album it was the odd wheel so to speak(Not that it’s not an R&B song, but there goes them blurry lines again LOL). Donell had even spoke on it sayin that he wasn’t neccesarily looking for a song like that to be on the album but that “THE LABEL” had kind of forced his hand on it & then it ended up being the lead single. If the LABELS aren’t willing to push the R&B singles on an R&B Artists album then that also helps to diminishing the R&B genre in the publics eyes.

JD u b killin me……I just KNEW u was gonna b like “Well I’ve been 2 a biker bar & yadda yadda..” but NOOOOO!!!! LMMFAOCDFU!!!! As far as the Sandra & Jessie thing goes….UR RIGHT!!!When we get with “Bad Boys” we KNOW that we’re at a 50/50 risk of something like that happening & while NOBODY wants to get hurt…we take that chance anyway! Without really knowing what was going on in her head Imma just guess that she knew what kind of man he would be but stupidly (like most of us women do) thought that he would change for her *SMDH*.

R&B is no longer respected because rap (not hip-hop) killed the genre. I think that’s part of it. Also, I think it’s the mentality that something can’t possibly be good or worth anything unless the majority population is attached to it somehow.

As for Sandra, of course she knew who her husband was when she married him. But, I don’t think she signed up for the constant cheating with every hoochie he could find. Yeah, she liked the unpolished parts, but why does that have to include being unfaithful? Why couldn’t Jesse get his “biker boy” persona on, but still have some respect for his wife and not bang every trick in his path? Does one go with the other?

1st I wanna say Happy B-day @JohnnyHo aka Ask the White Guy, 2nd I wanna say I’m liking RNB more than any other genre, and I like ALL genre’s. I believe it’s the generation we are in. Mostly I hear the older folks and by older I mean people older than me because I’m 19, but even me I still say I miss the old school ways of music and dancing. I’ve always wanted to slow dance, prob cuz of the movie *The Wood* But now people be almost having sex on the dance floor, I dont want that. I’ve brought more RNB albums more than RAP albums. But like Janea sayd no one knows the difference. But I don’t agree with the Ciara comment, because Janet sings the same way but better ofcourse, Janet has that soft speak. RNB is like the life of anyone u can feel it, u can be mad,sad,happy, it can even make u cry. I think people are afraid of the emotions it brings. I love songs with emotion to it. (I don’t no if this answers anything lol) but last but not least 3rd, I wanna no what kind of session Mairah got goin on, is Nick in there with her? lol

ooh almost forgot hap[py birthday to johnny aka the white guy hope you had a reat birthday

happy bday johnny guitar!!!!!!! and 2 all lifers and jd idk if yall remember this episode pf ltl but check it out the ocean boys was clownin 4 real lmao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4_YfzvmBQ

BIEM!!!!

*Happy BornDay Johnny (AskaWhiteGuy)!

*Sandra Bullock she knew what she married, but where he went wrong was
1. He cheated down. O_o
2.His drama made her look like a victim, at one of the biggest highlights in her career. It will always be “Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock, later discovered the man she trusted, her husband had a big secret” in her life’s bio. Smh…That shit is embarrassing!

*Lack of Respect for R&B (I have two views)

1. Why should the industry be concerned with an arena that doesn’t generate as much profit as the other areas. A large percentage of the target customer buy the music illegally. There for the industry takes a lost on their investment (the artist). Why should I (industry) invest in an arena where I ( insert non urban person here) can’t create, perform, and exploit?
*sidenote: I notice the industry is still willing to fund the urban talents to remain behind the scenes to write, produce, and give direction to the “new white” R&B acts.

2. (This may be far fetched but it’s MY OPINION)
Music has always been a source of strength for Black people for centuries. We live in a time where the prison rate is so high for minorities, and the education rate is declining.

If I keep you uneducated you remain mute, take away exposure and support to your music you remain weak.

Modern Day William Lynch techniques?
Stop and think about the 70’s when our people were the strongest. R&B and Funk reign supreme, and we had numerous educated figures demonstrating strength with a large following.

But what do I know I’m only 26…Just MY OPINION and something to think about.

man i rap and sing but i feel like rap gets more attention thin rnb but rnb is my passion. phat phat she nice but with out the right promotion she ant gone be a killer. thats the thing that happen with trey songz he been a beast i fill that as a rnd writer and singer we got to take that shit. make them respect are skill say ahh nigga lol

If you are beyond the age of 30 and cannot be in a committed relationship, you need to reevaluate yourself and the reason you are a grown ass man/woman but acting like a child. Now, if you don’t want to commit there is nothing wrong with that…live the single life, but if you get into a relationship, grow the fuck up and take on the responsibility of what comes with that relationship.

@Tina, I feel you on that lol…don’t know, but that’s what it sounds like….and we all see how that has worked out…………..at some point in your life you need to choose who you are going to be…you can be the bad boy and playa if you want to, just don’t do it on someone else’s time…grown ass people should not waste other grown ass peoples time

When Rap became Hip-Hop, R&B became Pop. It seems everything has blended together. Sometimes you can’t tell the difference.