Rolling R&B Thread 2009

i think the black faux hawk trend was really just an outgrowth of the white fratboy faux hawk trend that preceded it by 5 years...like a lot of other Kanye-endorsed urban music fashion trends, actually.

yeah i think that's pretty plausible. the fauxhawk def. started as an LA pretty boy, nylon magazine/MTV reality show look a couple year before the shop boyz lineage fauxhawk

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like, oh my god, how did we ever get to yung la from a paragon of humanity such as this

haha xpost

as a staple of black culture it seems way more current to me than 5 years ago

im not asking about fauxhawks on white ppl or else i would've bumped the politics of messenger bags thread

no i mean it's been a staple of white douchebags for at least 5 years longer than it's been a staple of black douchebags

I can't recall Kanye w/ a hawk. Seems he's rocking w/ the mullets. :/

thank you, noted cultural critic burt_shipley

xxxxx that dude's even got wallet chain! see hiphop influenced fashion trend circa 07/08 skull studded belt not pictured

well the kanye mullet was kind of a mohawk. but yeah he's not really the best trendwhore to pin that particular trend on.

a great example of this: Chrome Hearts jewelry showing up all over the "Ballin" video a good 2-3 years after it had already become a little played out as white dude douche-bling

i have nothing to say about r&b.

white dude douche-bling is a good phrase

ed hardy = white dude douche-bling for your torso

i was on south beach tonight and saw so many ppl wearing ed hardy, made we wanna get all ted bundy

obv douche's were whatever whatever but i wanted to shake every 48 year old w/ a 25 year old on his arm and be like "THIS ISN'T COOL— PEOPLE DON'T THINK YOU LOOK COOL. YOU HAVE TURQUOISE FOIL ON YOUR SHIRT"

i thought "swag" moved into annoying "i'd hit that"/"bling" parlez with 'swagger like us', personally; just another sin to lay at Kanye's feet.

AND WE HAVE A WINNER

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1. skull belt
2. messenger bag
3. (LV of course)
4. fauxhawk (although dude could just be bald)
5. ED HARDY tee!!!
6. raw denim
7. Prada sneakers

thank you, Shop Boyz.

white people, the inspiration "urban" fashion all along?

for

wooww at that pic

shit i forgot the tee over the long sleeve shirt and I think i see some sort of chain going on near the left pocket

why are you laying this all at the feet of the Shop Boyz anyway? none of them even had mohawks!

i just assumed

lol at wikipedia

Sometimes, terms like what the dilly, yo are popularized by a single song (in this case, "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes) and are only used briefly. Of special importance is the rule-based slang of Snoop Dogg and E-40, who add -izz to the middle of words so that shit becomes shizznit (the addition of the n occurs occasionally as well).

why is that dude not the subject of a poll?

rev

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=71055#unread

man i am listening to a LOT of mediocre falsetto in these soundchecks

ffs where's Block Party?

????

The Keri Hilson album has been doing a good job of keeping me from overplaying the new Dream. It feels a bit unexceptional maybe, but I'm still enjoying it (with the exception of Akon's awful, throaty yelps on Change Me). Slow Dance and Make Love stand out especially. Make Love is like some absurdly overblown Diane Warren-type shit but wow, it works.

Honestly I've been listening to Keri and J Holiday way more than Dream.

wow i need a gif of keri and wayne miming a pitcher/batter interatcion on kimmel

b/w seeing this and discovery that flo-rida's single samples "i'm blue" it's rly been a banner night for the lolz over here

btw hilson swings so wildly between dope swagger and corniest chick ever on stage, it's so jarring

also lyric sites

Balla wanna be Weezy
Yep Im at the plate again
Keri if you pitch it at me Ima swing a weight at it

loving this:

weeks i waited, razor at wrist, knowing any minute now brainwasher would arrive with cloak & scythe to big up "my girl melanie fiona". but my redeemer never came.

and oh hellz no this bitch did not just jack 'silly games' for her tired-ass jazmine sullivan business model! sit the fuck down already.

also dearest thread, there is to be no weaselling out of being held accountable for like 2 years of nonsensical hypemannery in the wake of keri's album being grim trash. (god polow how i hate what you have become!) (i like 'alienated' ok though.)

nor is "hmm i like roast dinners BUT ALSO POPCORN??!?!?!" gonna really wash as any sort of insight wrt scoring points off love vs money - that shit worked better on the jamie foxx thread for a start.

yeah "Alienated" is my pick from that one too. haven't really absorbed the album for better or worse yet though.

pity 'alienated' isnt a proper cassie song actually, keri seems too leathery for it almost.

(in the context of the rest of the record, at least.)

ffs where's Block Party?

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 26 March 2009 09:20 (4 days ago)

i. the missy album? - why on earth care! (but, i will stand by 'best best')
ii. the rubbish band? - still wasting their very handy drummer!
iii. the lisa left eye jam? - in a bargain bin near you, run and get that shit!!

btw hilson swings so wildly between dope swagger and corniest chick ever on stage, it's so jarring

― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Sunday, March 29, 2009 2:31 AM (Yesterday)

loltm

with rtc and ship re: 'alienated' love

I think my fav thing on the Keri album now is the corny as hell but wonderful "got a lot of girls on their do do do do doo" bit on "Intuition".

btw hilson swings so wildly between dope swagger and corniest chick ever on stage, it's so jarring

i know right! think it boils down to: her arm and upper body movements are fierce; her legwork is gawky and when she has nothing to do she just ends up standing there looking awkward. and like terius she should keep the shades on.

am jamming the 'turnin' me on' remix more than anything on the album so far...

Keri is just proof the the songwriter-to-artist transition always has its awkward bumps in the road, even if you look better in front of a camera than Sean Garrett. And seriously, at her stiffest and corniest she still comes across with more personality than all the dead-behind-the-eyes Cassies and Ciaras y'all are always trying to pinocchio into real girls.

i would kick it with hilson before ciara or cassie, im just saying it's funny

it's also funny cuz she's always got this super confident face on even tho she looks ridiculous half the time, compare this to cassie who bombed on 106 & park but was kinda embarrassed about it so i felt bad.

yeah...kinda reminds me of Ne-Yo's half-assed MJ stage moves, which he does in videos way more than he should or needs to but still kinda shrugs and admits he's not a dancer like Chris Brown or whoever

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