Rolling R&B Thread 2012

congrats u guys are R&B hipsters

reporting, bruv

countdown to mention of a world of...

feel like "hipsters" and "r&b hipsters" are coming perilously close to being one and the same anyway

you just think that because you're not out chea on these imaginary R&B skreets

ding ding ding xp

def saw a chick in chicago w/ a bag that had a list of musicians on it & it was like

Fleetwood Mac
Led Zeppelin
Velvet Underground
Sonic Youth
Aaliyah
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell

I think it's a bit off to conflate the niche who are into a Jeremih mixtape and the wide swath of people who love Aaliyah.

aaliyah def is a 'hip musical crush' to have nowadays

nowadays, and also the last 5,000 days before that

among the kind of ppl deej is talking about, I mean

of course there's going to be some lol college kids who wake up one day and go "wow aaliyah was dope" because they weren't really hip to "are you that somebody" when they were 5

thats a lot of ppl tho, is what im saying, you oldie

Oh wow, it hadn't even occurred to me there's this whole cohort that have only experienced Aaliyah in retrospect, which actually explains a lot over the past few years.

if someone never really goes out of style as a respectable artist to rep for than it's pretty meaningless to point out imo. "Rakim is so hot this year!" xp

than=then

all I'm saying is it seems college kids are getting a copy of one in a million along w their copy of unknown pleasures nowadays which maybe wasnt as true 5 yrs ago

perhaps, yeah

The cult of tragic death probably plays a role too, hadn't thought of that either :( (and in a way it wouldn't for eg MJB, another canonical voice of that generation)

yeah, def. plus the fact that getting a career cut short for whatever reasons before one can fall off often does wonders for a legacy.

Also this Keke Palmer mixtape is excellent. Love Me Love Me Not is what I'm about

sounding like dawn cos you think lex is automatic

Can we please drop the "hipster" accusations? They tend to obscure things. I think everyone I know who are into R&B are also heavily into the Jeremih tape.

sb for anyone who tries to break up a rolling r&b 2012 catfight imo

am trying and failing to find any reason not to put kalenna 'poison' at #2 on my no-dawn list, lol at this entire sham

TEARS IN MY DRANK, TEARS, TEARS IN MY DRANK YEAH

we have far too few of them really

xp

this keyshia album is pleasant in her usual forgettable way

i actually decided it was cool to call ppl 'hipsters' again for 2013

#trendwatch

feeling it tbh

lol deej

Aight. Let's all call each other hipsters and get it over with then.

Good morning, guys. Who did what to whom?

"Poison" really is just the most amazing song

in my fantasy world it would be the centerpiece of Last Train 2 Paris 2: Dick Big As The Eiffel Tower

I have to listen to Chamber of Diaries again before I decide where it'll end up for me in my albums list. The highs are so high but the lows are pretty low.

lollll ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8PJJ9lNoVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtKyP-xe1C0

i'm guessing nobody besides lex took heed of my lyrica anderson endorsement so

urgh i hate lyric videos so much

they could make even teedra moses singing titchyschneider posts seem bad

Do we have a thread for never to be released rap albums? Coming to grips with the harsh reality that Juelz Santana will never have another studio album

that alicia/maxwell joint was done by pop & oak... it was also co-written by that guy gary clark, jr. who i had never heard of until i opened rolling stone the other day and saw a four-star lead review. pop & oak have another joint on the album and a track she did with malay (who worked on like every channel orange song) made the album. there's also a joint on there w/ babyface. those are all in the final like four songs... everything else looks kind of drastic (smeezingtons + jeff bhasker!)

and for some reason i can never remember that they're called "oak & pop"

Malay also = Trunk Muzik!

jeff bhasker isn't really 'the we are young guy' in the context of an alicia keys album, he did "try sleeping with a broken heart"

yeah good point. but combined w/ the smeezingtons means it's probably not going to be "try sleeping with a broken heart"

eh "it will rain" is not far off from that

especially since the song is called "tears always win"

oh lol it looks like bhasker also did the god awful "girl on fire." and frank ocean co-wrote the malay production. and nothing w/ miguel made the album, although he's gonna be her opening act on the tour.

omg the song title "limitedless"