R&B 2015

also "champion" that wasn't on kehlani's album is a banger (and lil b! rapping properly!)

this is a song dedicated to the Warriors championship team fyi. kinda good in a novelty way i guess.

kehlani album is real nice tho.

'You Should Be Here' and 'How That Taste' are my current favs on there.

another find via spotify fresh finds, Toronto singer Jayd Ink

Jayd Ink - At.lanta
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aRb0148ajNXASm3AnI25c

Jayd Ink - This!
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EULFGZ7eRVA2HTe9WgIco

more info, and soundcloud links

Listen: Jayd Ink Premieres New EP ‘Invitation Only’
http://www.thisisrnb.com/2015/09/premiere-jayd-ink-invitation-only/

"space and time" really hitting me

Did anyone post about Lion Babe's Impossible ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuRYVOSIN5A

This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have revised as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned. Subscribe if you're into it!

It's 128 tracks, over 8 hours.

Rolling R&B 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

i wrote about D.K. The Punisher, a Baltimore dude who produced Jill Scott's lead single and some of the SiR album:
http://www.citypaper.com/music/music-features/bcp-092315-music-dk-the-punisher-20150922-story.html

Discussed in the Janet thread but holy shit, BURNITUP! with Missy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvdrmRphjc

I finally got to the Sevyn Streeter EP and holy shit.

Listening to this now, but I gotta say I'm a tad miffed that she didn't include "4th Street," which is easily among my top 3 or 4 fave songs of the year.

yeah it's so annoying that people now leave great songs off of their major label albums AND off of their little stopgap mixtapes and EPs as well

warner made a video and everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8DdSFHNNZs

basically every song so far on the finally-released tamar braxton album except for the single they put out in may ("if i don't have you") is pretty good/interesting

(tbf i'm only 4 tracks in and this is 16 gahdamned songs for some reason, which might not go over smashingly)

Yeah I pieced out on the Tamar by track 12, but what I heard of it was really good.

using this sample in this way could have turned out really hackish but i think it really works -- plus that it's pop & oak makes me feel better about the intentions

also tory lanez had that great song on the YG album so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUq1rZ7mmns

his rappity rap follow up is kind of a regrettable direction imo but he can flow at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K239Z8YzWI

this guy's vibe is weird he did a hipster dance producer EP and is playing at Cool Brooklyn Venue baby's all right in a few weeks but then he has this traditional R&B song done by very tradition-driven producers

since he's on interscope i assume the latter will win out but i guess i could see him as a sort of test case for a brave new future where major labels try and break artists to "tastemaker" scenes first

yeah i've been enjoying hearing "say it" on the radio. i didn't know pop & oak were involved, that's cool

"feat Chris Brown" is some kiss of death shit just lately but i am willing to make an exception for tinashe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKMKBmpwrg

There's a Brown-free version out there as well. Posted on the Tinashe thread, I think.

oh hey, you CAN get it without, thanks for the heads up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-htwnPdp18

Anyone disappointed with the Tamar Braxton? Starts strong, drags in the middle. Sometimes she wails like Keyshia Cole.

it's not great but not nearly as many missteps as her last album

lol, keyshia sprung to mind a few times as well for me, it was very wearying to slog through. i don't think it has the highs of the last album either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIcRQEvijw

great

alive got a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqpQgp8_ajo
now i want summer back :(

i f/w this, clever

https://soundcloud.com/dj-victoriouz/the-hoodgeekz-x-jeremih-bone/

what do you guys think of SHADOWY TORONTO R&B artists dvsn

https://soundcloud.com/dvsndvsn/the-line

i want to hate on it so hard but its good

eff canada

http://sobs.com/2015/6040/sevyn-streeter-2
Sevyn Streeter at SOBs in NYC - November 5 at 9:30pm (more likely 10.30 i'd guess)

Streeter's Northeast US tour also includes

Mon, Nov 2

The Foundry Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, US
Wed, Nov 4
Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD, US

Sun, Nov 8
Howard Theatre, Washington, DC, US

btw i saw that angie stone video on vh1 soul recently and wow that song rules

apparently teyena taylor put out a throwbackish EP a few months back & i like this bass track that interpolates "swing my way" (with good rapping by iman shumpert!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fszSp8WZlOY

i think i'm the only person who's checked for the natasha mosley album but it's really proving to be an excellent slow burn as the winter draws in. these two mid-album tracks work so well back to back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pssVutHtQmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44W6Ni5u_0Y

new Tiffany Evans EP is good, albeit not as good as the one she put out in 2013

i was sort of disappointed by it, will give it another shot though

the natasha mosley album seems barely to exist - i can't find production credits anywhere (was wondering which the zaytoven ones were, and there are some amazing sparse, subtle late-night sounds on it). it's not on allmusic or even wikipedia!

https://soundcloud.com/strangetown-records/sets/baby-queens-1/s-lp1Ko

new baby queens tracks

couple of interesting things out this week, the mila j mixtape makes pretty good use of her sour sneer and boots has released something called aquaria which...is pretty gnarly and weird on one listen, awkward rhythms and dense production and distorted voices and a hell of a lot going on

the boots thing is interesting, sounds like Beck in midnight vultures mode to me

there's something very 90s about it

from last yr but im not reviving r&b 2014 sry, this chick opened for weeknd i dig this track, huh 9 mil views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twix375Me4Q

lol every post ive made in this thread this yr has been abt some last yr shit

surprised anyone thinks of that song as r&b! it was big on alt-rock radio.

lol alt-rock hm i guess is could be idk

i mean she doesnt have a band rite

half the stuff on the alt-rock charts now has synths and drum machines

not sure this "counts" as r&b but I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLR3ip6v31E

Danish singer, just 16 years old - it's a break-up song, title translates to something like "you and I are in the past tense now" ("we 2 past tense now")

Comments on youtube filled with young boys complaining that she must care a lot about the boy she's thrashing in the song since she wrote an entire song about him, such provocation

WHY HAVE I BEEN SLEEPING ON MR RICO LOVE'S 'BAD ATTITUDE'?????????

whole album is slept on, love that song