Rolling R&B Thread 2017

New Lloyd

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

aww i like this!

i put this in the jeremih thread but nobody bit

this song he & yung berg did for justine sky might be one of the best things i've heard this year. maybe it's just cuz i've been listening to teedra moses a lot but i get that kinda vibe here, but also the textures and dueling guy/girl vocals remind me of last train to paris. and the chorus has this whimsical vocal melody that feels very characteristically jeremih to me. great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0TMSOWNafQ

yeah this is nice. she sounds like dawn on a few parts, the production would def fit on lttp

a lil retro but i like it

in other news, kehlani should sue:

Demi really served up the bad bitch anthem of 2017. pic.twitter.com/tvOtzaUiiR

— ً (@ButeraDemetria) July 19, 2017

damn yah

Diggin that Justine Sky track.

totally loving the stokley album, lots of prince/miguel/stevie/saadiq/d'arby vibes throughout... wouldn't mind a thread for it actually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfEfOK85HJw

I like the Luke Christopher album OK; it's a little too obviously post-Drake at times (particularly in terms of his flow, which is loose enough that I think the album is appropriate for this thread) but there are a lot of interesting ideas in the music. He's on ByStorm, which is the same imprint Miguel is on.

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

also the lovely new ne-yo track has a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jI1GyMlggo

i really hope the collapse of the pop market for anyone who isn't both a chainsmoker (or connected to one) and under 27 means that his label will stop forcing him to dabble in edm bullshit

"another love song" is so good

(that said, i don't mind if he does another pitbull collab)

ne yo track is great

new cassie with (blech) g-eazy

https://open.spotify.com/track/4VwX2Ycso2PjDvQA9FbfBp

love the title line and the production is beautiful

g-eazy unsurprisingly offers nothing but the reminder that the industry sees guest raps as little more than signposts for radio programmers. unfortunately for some reason there probably won't be a maroon 5-esque 'without rap' edit for the ac stations cuz otherwise i'd be seeking it out.

there might be! adult r&b is a growing format

A solo version of that track was originally intended for release so hopefully we get it eventually, the random rapper addition must've happened pretty recently before they premiered it. Like I said in her thread it's smooth and I'm enjoying it a lot but I just hope she doesn't disappear again after this.

worth reposting here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-cNN_SPqL0

maybe i'm wrong but i feel like there's been a major uptick in adult r&b radio stars singing over trap-ish beats this year. not that trend-hopping hits are necessarily good, but if it means more room for male vocalists who don't have thin chris brown-type voices then i can't say i'm opposed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRF9TgkBCjc

(my favorite thing about this one is that the way he sings "fuck" sounds appropriately mid-coital)

Thraed of Iconika

^^^good shit

new luke jaaaaaames

http://youtu.be/zYL3HPMiOho

i was so worried he'd given up music for acting. i love this

yeah song is a jam

great song & video

so good

agreed

Love this new Jean Deaux track

http://soundcloud.com/thatsjeandeaux/wikipedia

new syd: https://soundcloud.com/internetsyd/bad-dream-no-looking-back

pretty sure 'Fin' is gonna end up being a best of the year album for me

this is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GKxnBDu2g

also i need to listen to that syd record

it flags a bit in the middle but is otherwise aces

Syd solo i don't care for as much as the internet stuff

daniel caesar is v v good

Daniel Caesar's album is so good!

Really floored by the new Elijah Blake album. Feels like a more youthful spin on Anthony Hamilton's act—same virtuosic grasp of multiple styles and eras of R&B, but with more of a '90s spirit. A bunch of tracks sprawl in some Maxwell-esque directions, too... wonderful stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATDKax9H0LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfQYxNVFstI

and yeah that Daniel Caesar album is sensational. What a week

Caesar album is indeed great.

playing new york in november - http://highlineballroom.com/show/2017/11/24/daniel-caesar/

On Under the Streetlight, Boyz II Men put their spin on classics such as "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers), "Stay" (Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs) and "I Only Have Eyes for You" (The Flamingos) along with an original composition, "Ladies Man."

The album also features three guest vocalists who join the trio: Multi-platinum R&B artist Brian McKnight on "I'll Come Running Back To You," "Tears On My Pillow," and "A Sunday Kind Of Love"; Olivier Award Winner Amber Riley (Glee, London's Dreamgirls) on "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is"; and ten-time Grammy® winners Take Six join the trio on "A Thousand Miles Away."

also there's a new syd record out friday?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Never_Home

nice!

enjoyed the Caesar album so much that i went back and tried his 2015 debut Pilgrim's Paradise and hooboy he's gotten much better over the past few years.

These dudes are playing here tomorrow:

http://soundcloud.com/sonder/sets/into-ep-1

the r.lum.r single posted upthread five months ago left me cold when first posted but it is kind of a revelation on the radio

i like the new musiq soulchild album. it's a double album. marsha ambrosius and neil degrasse tyson are among the guests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfN58r9zBGE

Also, new Ledisi album out Friday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNH-VuD7vw

havent listened to enough r&b this year but rexx life raj has released some stuff i like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEMY1ZPaH-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWsvpg7c00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUd5wOsV9JE

I don't know if any of you watch the super soapy EMPIRE spinoff STAR, but Luke James is on this season and he's releasing jams. I really like this duet with him and Ryan Destiny, one of the main stars:

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

There's this one, too, which is a little current-trendy but I like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgWex3znZRk

The cast of this show is kind of bonkers. Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt are in the main cast; Michael Michele has a running gig; Paris Jackson showed up (and got throttled by the main bad-girl singer this week); Naomi Campbell and Lenny Kravitz play Ryan Destiny's character's parents; Keke Palmer plays a Nicki/Cardi hybrid; and Stephen Dorff is on it too.

brent faiyaz sonder son is my r&b aoty