Rolling R&B Thread 2012

are we on "gucci this, gucci that" at all?

sounds like a pretty great throwback to crunk & b to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSyrnsn4WI&ob=av2e

and if you're like me you're just pretending that it's the return of vistoso bosses

wow they've grown since we last saw them

great to see their production strategy continues to be daddy's leftovers

(i knew i'd fuck with it before i even pressed play and it didn't disappoint)

i love the hook & cute happy vibe of "do it like you"

it's also hilariously comes off as a direct response to "gucci gucci"

"diggy is kinda lame" may be the understatement of the year

― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:29 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah I watched the video after I posted it and I think he's a bieber clone? wikipedia sez he's the son of rev run though!

i love the hook & cute happy vibe of "do it like you"

― flopson, Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:40 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

I knew you would come through :-)

is diggy diggy simmons or something? think he was xxl freshmen last year? or is he young money? or both?

definite post-drake vibe

song is straight up adorable though

it would be hilarious if there was more than one kiddie rapper named diggy but yeah diggy simmons just decided to go mononym

jeremih needs to come with that third album already and stop giving hooks to wack rappers to stay on the radio

sh1pley go hard otm

apparently this leaked in novmeber, but i guess the NO DJ version has leaked now --

pretty interesting line up... t-pain ft petey pablo & magoo + lil jon and fatman scoop shouting shit, but it's kind of a chill joint -- at least for something called "bring the club back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKDk5DKFPY

maybe more rolling pop than rolling r&b but figured the audience for it is here

ignore the first 7 seconds of that video

the fatman scoop shouting is mixed so loud lol, sounds terrible

I kind of love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=575DbfYEDCc

Apparently this guy Marcus Canty was on the American version of X-Factor? At least something good came from that show; I'd buy a full album of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDephJ_a1o

i had to listen to some jade alston to cleanse my ears after that shitty fortebowie song (well, WHAT SONG indeed)

just this dreadful amateur attempt to recreate "sex intelligent". NO THANKS

There's some pretty good stuff on the new Teyana Taylor mixtape. Solid release.

Some of these Hitboy-produced Taylor tracks are just gorgeous. Not sure how I missed "Gorgeous" when it came out in 2009. "You Know" is really pretty, too.

anyone have XM radio? this one dj, cayman kelly (@CaymanKellyshow), just has the best fuckin taste, love listening to his show. slow jam heaven

just followed up the new eric benet single (which is nice!) with kut klose "i like" (!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63wo5Hh-fXs

awesome

it's all getting a bit obvious, this late night laptop melancholy stuff

inclined to agree

i still find jhene interesting; her voice and songwriting just hit it for me

<3 her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FFljQvW3M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

i like this song

feeling the melanie fiona album so far. guest rappers could do better without exception though.

did she just channel nina simone there on "bones"?! rather incredible, that one.

hahahaha "6am"!!!

The MF Life is sort of like 2012's answer to Lloyd's King of Hearts for me. A back-to-back strong album that's maybe a few missteps away from being the indisputable masterpiece I really wanted it to be, but still probably the best album I could have reasonably expected.

I do like how in his guest verses Nas always mentions the name of the artist featuring him. It's a little thing, but that personal touch makes them feel less remote than the usual copy-and-paste verse.

http://www.youtube.com/v/L5FFljQvW3M&feature=youtube_gdata_player&fs=1&hl=en

i like this song

― been to lots of college and twitter (k3vin k.), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:04 PM (11 hours ago)

whoops here's the actual song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwUyuSHomk&ob=av2n

relistening to melanie fiona's debut - so much better than i thought at the time, but i'm remembering why i dismissed it - around that time everyone was doing these chintzy retro 60s sounds, it was kind of like labels were trying to cast around for a non-scary winehouse without the crack and ink, so we got adele and duffy and several others i probably forget, and melanie fiona fit a bit too snugly into that. a few years later it sounds a lot better.

but the mf life is still a huge step up.

also if i may repeat myself, the estelle album is EXCELLENT

The MF Life is dope, exactly what i was hoping for

maybe not as good as the Lloyd album but the missteps are WAY less glaring imo

Yeah, the missteps are pretty forgivable. "6 AM" is like a bad joke to me, and the sappiness of that John Legend track seems to cut against the rest of the album, but those are pretty minor quibbles. Mostly her voice is so fantastic that I just want more of it, in any context.

"6 am" is a good joke! r kelly worthy tbh

"bones" is def the most amazing after "4 am" though

"Bones" is the type of retro I usually reflexively hate, but it's so damn flawless it just totally wins me over

nice to see a couple productions from Jack Splash of "Fool For You" fame (4 counting bonus tracks!)

Also, MF takes all the right cues from Mary, Mariah and Alicia, but more than any of those influences she comes off as really sympathetic and relatable. I can't quite pinpoint what it is that makes me connect to her so much, but there's something about these songs that leaves me really vested in Melanie Fiona and her happiness.

the comparison springing to mind to me throughout was NEW JAZMINE

yeah thematically and musically there's a lot of shared territory, although i think the grain of each's respective voice is distinct enough that it's a non-issue while i'm listening.

she could never compare to Jazmine! and she's definitely not more sympathetic than MARY of all people!!!

still haven't listen to this yet though, will give it a spin l8r.

I think public image plays some role in it. Mary is MARY, all caps. Melanie is just Melanie. Not royalty or anything.