Rolling R&B Thread 2008

yeah something halfway unique on the radio would be vastly improved by resembling everything else more

YOU TRIED TO PUT HIM IN A BOX! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

yeah preview way off the money

whats unique about it? A weird synth line? Like every swizz beat from the late ninetys and every timbo track from this decade and half of every polow song etc...I mean its good but Ryan leslie isnt exactly blowing my mind

it sounds the like the-dream

don't tell alex that

anyway i'm not even sure what it sounds like-- it's just a brilliant song, really simple, bucking trends by being trendless, separates itself by being a charmingly quirky. i don't know, it seems highly un-unlikable to me

brainiac dum dums bust the scientific

i mean yeah that ONE ruh-ruh froggy sound is timmish but christ as if it wasnt bad enough when you mugs claimed the-dream sounded like ginuwine upthread, knock it the fuck off already

if anything i'd say argue r-les takes strong neptunes cues on occasion (partic obv when you see him in any of his studio vids), and 'diamond girl' kind of does have a swizzy oomph, but neither is egregious of anything and neither pov is much fun carrying around

i mean yeah that ONE ruh-ruh froggy sound is timmish

that's all i was i was talking about

mug

haha if i get americans calling peeps mugs then it's all been worthwhile

http://www.zshare.net/audio/10561653cb176222/

meanwhile on rolling auteur thread 2008 this ne-yo got that neglected 1st album charm i wasnt expecting to ever hear again. lol at him coming with a secret scrub's anthem on his year of the gentleman flex, and double triple lol at suddenly excited "or maybe i paint your toenails...!!" yeeeah you go dispel those rumours son

the funny thing is did actually mean to come chop it up about r-les 'addiction' and cassie's 'official girl' version since theyre literally the only good stuffz around right now

so does leslie really have an album coming out in june

his half assed falsetto on "addiction" is kinda bad, beat is still hot. oh well. not better than "livin a lie" as far as these songs go

yeah but then that amateurishness is only gonna work in his favour in the current climate really. (also, i might go so far as to say it crucially softens the whole yuppie-with-a-laptop vibe his beats have, i dunno.)

none of the above will ever end up applying to cassie though obv cos society still be slaking its sexist thirst with lumidee's blood to this very damn day.

and yes r-les is having a selftitled album out apparently. i did read it was supposed to be called "used to be" before, and knew that would change with the quickness.

he's already had one (disappointing) album out though! before cassie was even a twinkle! anyone hear it? just right' remains fucking banger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhMNLQFb_l4

^ fun fact: i once heard lily allen play that tune out, in a bar. what a queen move?

Would somebody care to list some good R&B albums of 2008? This thread is so single-oriented and disjointed that it's impossible for me to navigate.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/snouts/ryanlezza.gif

navigate my fist patrick south!

uh n/h

nah but seriously um, i recommend cheri dennis, older heads recommend raheem devaughn, younger heads with iron robotech noize constitutions recommend danity kane, and then there's mariah and janet. which are kinda average pon the whole. and that's about it so far.

oh also j-shep recommends ray jay? (will investigate this in a minute)

the-dream came out mid-dec, so also that

"sexy can i" is garbage

we all read ray jay's magnificent interview of lies right?

ha i like sexy can i

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/04/exclusive-ray-j.html

I seen Pac the day before they left. Suge bought Snoop, Pac and Dr. Dre Rolls-Royces. I think they all caravanned.

The day he died, I seen him with Puff. I tried to say what’s up to Puff, but Puff didn’t see me. Then I seen Big and he was like, "What’s up, my n*gg*." I hugged Big and the n*gg* smelled like soap. That’s all I remember. He just smelled fresh like, "Damn, he a big n*gg* but he smell like soap."

yeah "Sexy Can I" is kind of impossible to resist or respect totally, which causes a lot of conflicted feelings.

I like the Badu album, too, though not nearly as much as the other folks on the rolling scented candles thread.

the only person more contemptible than ray j is fucking yung berg. i'm cool with all hook no verse songs as long as the hook is good and this one is not

yeah Yung Berg is despicable, although I can't muster as much hate for him on this as I did for "Sexy Lady." it's funny how after "Sexy Can I" blew up Ray J shot a slightly slicker new video for it, and I was like shit, you upgraded the video but not the guest MC?

i'm cool with all hook no verse songs as long as the hook is good and this one is not

c.f. any good chingy song

maybe yung berg smells like nice xp

hold up

kim kardashian y/n

omfg...listening to official girl. omfg. one of danja's best. this is so fucking amazing. cassie deliversssss

B-b-but the whole thing about the Badu album is that it isn't all scented candles and shit. It's mostly off-kilter funk rips and stuff.

yeah "Sexy Can I" is kind of impossible to resist or respect totally, which causes a lot of conflicted feelings.

This is otm, tho. Ray J is kind of dead to me in the wake of "One Wish", which I hate about as much as I hate "Bossy" and "Beautiful Girls" combined and tripled, but I have a hard time bringing myself to hate "Sexy Can I".

What the hell is rtc even on about upthread?

R&B albums this year (+ dec. 07, excuse my late passes) I like (in rough order of likedness):

E. Badu
Dreamer
Cheri Dennis
Miss Janet if yr nasty
MJB

c.f. any good chingy song

-- J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:38 PM (Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:38 PM) Bookmark Link

lol oxymoron

Until Al mentioned it, I couldn't even remember what Young Berg's hit was.

back to the matter at hand? no? bah.

'one wish' was great! - "I'LL BE! OKAY! IF I! GET ONE!" - not to mention 'beautiful girls'.

gonna have to be more specific about what i'm on about upthread but if you're talking about you comparing cheri's album to cassie then i imagine it was your flagrant incorrectness? most i can work out is it has a vaguely similar rickety thin sweetness about it but as far as icy electro or whatever goes then hell no

i think he means you calling us all dum dums

I didn't say the Cheri album was "icy electro". I even specifically even said it wasn't after J0 asked me if it was, so wtf are you talking about. Most of the Cassie album isn't icy electro anyways, I was comparing them on the basis of the whole rickety thin sweetness thing.

DONT MISCONSTRUE ME BIDDLEEYOTCH!

stick with BOOCH :D

I only call people bootches on sub-boards.

'one wish' was great! - "I'LL BE! OKAY! IF I! GET ONE!"

How to tell if your goat is sick.

I just heard "Ahhh" for the first time. This is nice! Sounds like Aaliyah circa "Try Again"

That song is pretty awful throwaway.

I'm looking forward to her new album Fantasy Ride though.

"Awful"? Huh? Boring, maybe.

pretty interesting bit of an interview w/ young berg talking about how he wrote "sexy can i" and is in the studio now w/ tricky and the-dream doing shit for ciara

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You mentioned that you wrote “Sexy Lady” and “Sexy Can I,” how long have you been writing R&B records?

It happened when I first started messing with Junior. We used to toy around. I used to try to do R&B, but I never really got confident in myself until T-Pain and The Dream came out. I notice these niggas ain’t doing nothing but rapping with melodies. Once I got the blueprint around it, I just took off with that shit. Then “Sexy Lady” came. Now “The Business,” working with Ciara, my working with Dream and Tricky. It’s gonna be big.

How did you link up with Ciara?

I didn’t really link up with Ciara. Tricky’s an executive producer on her project or whatever. And, ya’ll know Tricky did “Umbrella” and all that stuff. Tricky’s from Chicago, but me and Tricky actually met through my mixer on my records, ’cause he mixes all of The Dream and Tricky’s stuff. My mixer was talking about, “Yo, Berg is crazy,” so we finally linked up and we getting to the money right now.

You used the Auto-Tune on a song off your album. Why?

I’m not gonna front. I’m not Chris Brown. I can’t sing like that. Pain might feel like he’s the best singer, but if he was honest, he’d be like, “I’m not the best singer. I was a rapper and I found this fucking instrument and I can sing good enough to where it doesn’t sound like shit.” But you’re not gonna catch me on “American Idol” next week…

Pain said artists need to ask for his permission to use Auto-Tune, did you ask for it?

What’s crazy about it with the whole permission thing is I had a record called “One Call Away” that I did and put the voice coder on it. This is before everybody started going nutty with it. I went to see T-Pain, ’cause I was on the Scream Tour with him…. And I went on his bus and was like, “I want you to get on this record. I was playing the record and he kinda flipped. He was like, “Damn, dawg! You sound kinda like me on this shit a little bit.” I was like, “I need you to do it.” The record never really worked out, but he was like you got my permission to do anything with that shit.

Ciara's new song "High Price" is shockingly awful (The-Dream wrote it and generally Ciara's singles are amazing.. plus I think Polow produced it.. anyway it's really weird and bad).