Rolling R&B Thread 2009

haha i dunno, it's basically the same thing as the frankie valli song, which i prefer to this

alright i didnt hear the rap part until i posted that, this is still kinda whatever

didn't realize this was a cover (would assume jordan didn't either)

yeah I've known about this song for years and the rap part doesn't really take the song anywhere the original doesn't go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3kC_4xURA

the remix is officially Beggin' (Pilooski Re-Edit)

holy shit I've been hearing that Beggin song and thinking it's the Black Eyed Peas and Fergie has done the world the favor of sitting one out.

haha

Yeah, that was massive all across europe and I thought we'd thought about it loads here (at first I thought u were being sarcastic Jordan)

last summer when I was dancing the DJ dropped it in the middle of this set that had been very disco/chi house with bits of like De La Soul and stuff and when this came on everyone went insane, it was kindof great because it had been this ridiculously tasteful set and then this was this dodgy summer hit, but it sat so well and made so much sense with everything else he played (he followed it with Peech boys Don't make me wait iirc)

been hearing the new r kelly/hilson joint on the radio a bit. i think it's kinda good but i don't really buy hilson as some freak sex slave and it's really silly to hear her singing about being a "chocoholic" and shit on a song with the dirtiest and most shameless singer in r&b. they should've had someone else sing.

woof, i gotta hear that. sounds messy.

kinda surprised to find out I don't hate "LOL :-)"

lol :-)

also the Drake/Mans Trey/Wayne joint

umpteen lame new jigga leak & venus mars roll poll (whatever that is) thread got me drawing 4 these old jams --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9W25MF4NmQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcRd3Ifzhtg

boy/girl combos totes need to make a comeback imo.

don't suppose yall found anything out there to relieve a thug's modern-day ennui btw?

kinda feeling that omarion/wayne song that dude supposedly got dropped for leaking

listened to mario's what the game's been missing mixtape - nothing special, and not particularly feeling the new material so much, but him doing a couple covers on old beats kinda reminds you how distinctive a vocalist he can be. also this thing - not saying i want him to do a gnarls barkley omg omg or anything, but he does sound really good in a way i guess i'd not considered before, or maybe in a way that i had been aware of but is cartoonishly deployed to its extreme limit here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrt1vIr2cp0

really tricky pinning that strange quality in his voice he has down in words exactly.

you have no idea how crestfallen I am that Mario has a mixtape with the words "the game" in the title and the cover art is not some kind of Super Mario Bros. photoshop

http://sydlexia.com/imagesandstuff/smb2j/neverchange.png

^ story of dude's career

http://www.wiilovemario.com/images/Goomba-in-3d.jpg

beware of sean garrett

ooo shit damn ay talking of cover art

http://i28.tinypic.com/2hcp3zt.jpg

hellz yes brooke hogan you can have a 5 star review on principle! (will actually listen to this and find a way for it to be true.)

damn, I didn't realize Mario could soul it like that. color me impressed.

lol @ "the princess is in another castle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuQ1McRtGU

way heavy on the marvins but way better than anything on the last album nevertheless, feelin it. also: produced by kenny dope!

tho if he'd dropped gunshot sfx like on this he'd be looking at a smash hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7i0kkhCuAs

classic

it's a good thing i'm aware that four or five weirdo auteurs had okay albums in the last couple of years cos y'know otherwise i coulda sworn there was fuck all worth listening to right about now. HMMMMM.

changing faces are back though, never fear. (??!)

relax

whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VbuDnTAu3c

this is nice! but then of course it would be. it's funny with teedra these days, personally i'm finding it a little unnerving trying to like, objectively assess how good her new stuff is now that it pops up every now and then on interwebs, on a mixtape, and so forth. it all seemed so sure in 03 - that inviting warmth of predestiny that bam, a record, "from the forthcoming album", brought. i don't want it to be a cassie fan club situation for me to have to animate this stuff in my head all the time.

still, despite all that young hustla vol 3 remains great, and i bump it often - if i deigned to fuck with such things i'm even pretty sure it'd make a best of 09 list of mine. i suppose no one else bothered getting it though.

also her twitter is pretty hood, i quite enjoy it.

also also i just watched an interview and she says she likes lady gaga. quite right too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oGxmzbIme0

i'm liking this too, why the fuck not right.

feeling this new teedra too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_HPsA0WzRs

Have we discussed the fact that the new album by my mans Trey Songz includes a song called "I Invented Sex"?

i heard that on the radio the other day, it features drake and is far more eye-rolling than it is o_O

that's disappointing

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

theyre sampling ART OF NOISE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpDnEMNqX4&feature=player_profilepage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx7dUKEel98&feature=player_profilepage

i LOVE that song but it charted almost a year ago

im disconnected

see, i'm honestly not tryna be mr negative every time but goddamn if that isnt the most inept entry yet to a long and proud cultural lineage of sampling ART OF NOISE, even ashanti made a better fist of that shit!!

yeah i know, woulda made a good poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FakKUy0cJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgBv4vHyYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXaKhICc48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0BWOn2IU0

if i hadn't dropped the MURDA MO bomb that izz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzoUo6cQ5oU

had no idea mo murda sampled art of noise

lloyd was so real in 04 he also sampled 'beat box' on that same album too but i'm guessing ur all okay for youtubes right now. i kinda mislaid my lloyd fan club membership card this year and whats worse am pretty sure that trey songz mixtape is to blame :(

oh thats murda mo not mo murda

that trey songz mixtape was pretty great

"make it rain" is awesome.

yeah i can't hate, it really was. even the new proper album's... well, there's plenty stuff you can clown in there but on the whole it's better than a lot of things, especially this year. but ultimately yes it does lack that ugh-how-did-this-idiot-seduce-me walk of shame appeal the mixtape has.

troy taylor who produced a lot of it is a veteran of 90s rnb filler btw! http://www.discogs.com/artist/Characters%2C+The (clutching at straws, who me?)

love rifle love

but u knew tht