SOLANGE KNOWLES, omg the return of

@solangeknowles
There are SO many gifted writers who truly understand. Who didn't get hip to R&B & Hip-Hop via the crossover artist of their childhood.

i don't even understand this. like if your first interest in R&B was hearing Janet or Mariah or Whitney as a kid THAT makes your take on R&B invalid? what's the OG route?

xp i don't think j0rdan has ridden hard for indie-r&b as a thing?

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 2:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm talking about

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
So you can stop praising every rapper who raps over a trap beat, but can't form literate sentences & then you market it as some hip shit.

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

completely enraging tbh

lol

of course her comments abt R&B critics wouldn't have anything to do w/ other artists getting in the way of her special alt R&B shine now would it

she thought being alt would separate her from the pack & now everybody does it o wellllll

I don't think that's the takeaway at all.

there are many takeaways. her criticism (of R&B at least) isn't far from what ppl have said around here for ages. but the purity test of R&B crit is silly as fuck

SergDun ‏@SergDun
Really? You guys are trying to ride for deep brandy cuts? Get up on my level of toad the wet sprocket back catalog too

kingmost ‏@kingmost
@SergDun WHis is this at? Hollerboard?

that says it all imo

anyone who mocks the idea of people riding for deep brandy cuts is basically scum

i first read her tweets and were like "this is otm!" but the more you think about it the more disingenuous and silly it seems

seems like "REALLY UNDERSTANDING hip hop culture" is the gateway to liking latter-day Common records to me, idunno

xp

lol @ music purity tests cutting no ice with D-40

she thought being alt would separate her from the pack & now everybody does it o wellllll

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 5 January 2013 20:50 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

this kinda reminds me of one time i was lured into going to the shacklewell a few years ago, some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night was afoot and to this day i can vividly recall the anaemic twerp on the decks solemnly basking in the crowd's dead reaction as he pulled the trigger on brandy 'all in me'

vg plax post

i could almost get down with "enjoyably lazy" if i wouldnt have to scour the globe for a thousand years to hear another person admit as much

i guess for another listener this could be the meaty tension of it, the gap between blind signification and embodied vulnerability

my instinct is to agree with this based on meagre enquiries i have undertaken

"some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night"

i like how this has again set bdot off on j0rdan the cultural tourist

SOLANGE KNOWLES, omg the infernal

In retrospect we really should have anticipated where this was going to end up with "jamming to feist and lemon jelly" in the original post.

Ha! That's really a spot on distillation of the Solange.

I don't see what's so wrong with what she said, I've seen a lot of people on ilx say similar.

this kinda reminds me of one time i was lured into going to the shacklewell a few years ago, some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night was afoot and to this day i can vividly recall the anaemic twerp on the decks solemnly basking in the crowd's dead reaction as he pulled the trigger on brandy 'all in me'

I see Tim already pulled the key quote here.

The Shacklewell is just fucking bizarre.

i dont mind the shacklewell

dunno what you lot are on about, i copied that from the flyer

lol the last time i went to the shacklewell (and the event that convinced me to stay away from it forever) was...when SOLANGE was DJing there

do u recall who the anaemic twerp was rtc?

god if you're gonna play a #deepbrandycut for the dancefloor at least let it be "sadiddy"

lol i forgot about brandy's tribute to pootie tang

i didn't know it was a tribute to anything, idk what pootie tang is

Pootie Tang is a 2001 American comedy film written and directed by Louis C.K..

:(((((((((((((

lol

^^^^excellent ilx exchanges

has someone listened to "true" yet ? is it any good ?

Yep. "Locked in Closets" and "Don't Let Me Down" are dope.

thanks. just listenend to "lovers in the parking lot". seems alright.

True is great. Bad Girls is probably my favourite song after Losing You. Only Look Good With Trouble is a bit throwaway but it is very short. Some Things Never Seem To Fucking Work is one of the other highlights but is slightly spoiled by a pretty annoying rap by Dev.

this kinda reminds me of one time i was lured into going to the shacklewell a few years ago, some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night was afoot and to this day i can vividly recall the anaemic twerp on the decks solemnly basking in the crowd's dead reaction as he pulled the trigger on brandy 'all in me'

what's kingdom? having had a few nihilism-inducing nights at the shacklewell i feel the need to complete this vivid picture.

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

but is slightly spoiled by a pretty annoying rap by Dev.

I didn't think of that as a "rap" so much as one of those spoken word codas that bands like Human League used to throw in, made it more tolerable to approach it that way.

but this is Dev talking
and I wanna tell you
what I've found to be true

ah right, cheers gg.

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
Like you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a "grade" or a "score" to any R&B artist.

ha i agree with this obv

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:03 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not true of, say, bob dylan though right lex?

I didn't think of that as a "rap" so much as one of those spoken word codas that bands like Human League used to throw in, made it more tolerable to approach it that way.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

Yeah you're probably right. There is still something about it that I find quite annoying everytime, maybe just his voice? Those Phill Oakey moments were always so perfect.

Losing You with Janelle Monae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwKZRdY4A_0

I really have zero excuse for not knowing she was in town last week.

bring it on: all or nothing is still stone cold classic.

Rihanna gets more lines than in battleship!

https://soundcloud.com/solangeknowles/solange-looks-good-with

when is her album coming out?

i saw her live the other night, it sounded amazing but it was definitely stacked with tracks. not that i give a shit

covering "laundromat" in a laundromat

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