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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    Quote Originally Posted by andgar923
    You're missing the main point.

    Back then one didn't have to rely on the underground for good shit. The mainstream was giving you top quality music.
    I get it. I stay underground. With the moles. It's so funky down here.

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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    Rameek for mod.

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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    Quote Originally Posted by iggy>
    You just made another "back then" thread. Real original.

    Nobody cares about your sh!tty taste in music, or the garbage ass Knicks.
    Im pointing out tha obvious stupid, music these dayz are horrible, you have no type of taste to listen to todays garbage like that and dats pretty damn sad

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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    Quote Originally Posted by The-Legend-24
    Why are dustheads always bitching about mainstream rap? Why not just keep listening to ur boring dictionary raps and stop complaining.

    I swear these dude force themselves to like the shit they hear.

    R&B is doing fine, we got artist like Janelle Monae, Frank Ocean, Miguel, The Weeknd, and John Legend.
    R&B iz okay but its not amazing how it used to be, and Frank Ocean's gay ass dont count, Im sorry Thats tha problem todays new music listeners dont want to hear real rap, cuz they afraid they might learn something, and somehow wer have to fix that shit.

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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    All the arts decline bro; it is the way of things. It's what happens once the masses take a hold of it.

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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dresta
    All the arts decline bro; it is the way of things. It's what happens once the masses take a hold of it.
    Yea true but something gotta change man before it gets extremely worse than what it iz

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    Default Re: Tha State of Rap and R&B.

    The state of Hip-Hop and R&B is not very good. I'll start with R&B.

    R&B has been on a decline since the mid 90s. Really, we can go back to the late 80s. The R&B band has been gone for almost 30 freaking years, 30 YEARS!! That's crazy. That is slightly around the time Hip-Hop took of into the mainstream ... do we have something here ...

    Since 1988, there have only been a total of two R&B bands that have had an impact in popular music, Toni Tony Tone and Mint Condition. If you want, you can count Guy and Jodeci as two members from each group played instruments. Teddy Riley (keyboards), Damien Hall (drums) of Guy and the Swing brothers (piano, drums) of Jodeci. But that is reaching really.

    Really, only one was going to survive into the 90s. Hip-Hop or R&B. Hip-Hop was much cheaper to make, You don't need multiple musicians backing up an artist, we can just get one dude to make beats on a program. So Hip-Hop it was and that was the end on R&B as we know it. It slowly started to die out. R&B in 1989 was totally different than it was just 5 years earlier.


    In 1984, top R&B artist were The Time, Prince, The Jacksons, Midnight Star, Cameo, Zapp, Kool & the Gang, Gap Band, The Deele, Rick James and DeBarge. All self contained bands or artist.

    Five years later in 1989, top R&B artist were Al. B. Sure, Troop, Janet Jackson, New Edition, Karyn White, Peebles, Bobby Brown, Guy, Babyface and The Boys.

    You can't say the same from the years 1979 to 1984.

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