sandbox r&b

if the term "bedroom thugs" was used, i may know a guy...

― v-shasty, Sunday, December 4, 2011 4:12 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

lol this makes you look bad not me

oh god j0rdan i'm so embarrassed for you right now

guys...

i know k3v, don't tell j0rdan how disappointed you are in him. he knows.

we must shun him now

was this teedra moses 'luxurious undergrind' tape any good

yeah - this was my favourite joint on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Htb71DMP8

wow yeah thats ill

okay npr streaming the anthony hamilton album atm. Not really up on r n b myself but I'm liking it so far. Is he well regarded?

anthony hamilton is fantastic, have been looking fwd to this album - feeling the single

(can't be bovd with streams though)

did many people check out the anthony david album this year btw? "god said" dominated by listening because it's such a powerful song, but listening back to the whole thing and the rest holds up really well.

listening to the tia london album that deej was recommending somewhere - COSIGN! reminds me a lot of cheri dennis

this Jennifer Hudson album is solid, really the record everyone wanted her to make the first time around and probably stopped expecting when she didn't

I made a short mix of some of my favorite R&B tracks of the year. Most of these are probably already familiar to most of you, but they're worth checking out if you haven't heard them:

http://rnbblog.tumblr.com/post/13645258276/2011-in-r-b-mixtape

you need a theme song to the tune of "r&b thug"

i need to listen to that j hud album

i liked j-hud's first album! it wasn't, you know, consistently great but its high points ("spotlight", "my heart") were excellent, and kept me coming back in a way that little on the second managed to

first album was not bad but it was definitely in many ways a misfire and worse than that forgettable. by comparison I Remember Me is just a murderer's row of some of R&B's best songwriters/producers doing quality work (give or take a Ryan Tedder).

just saw this video on mtv jams for the first time even thought it must be like a year old, lmao @ the-dream's pimp c beard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7m0W8fkf4

Wow wow wow at Anthony Hamilton's new one. Wow wow wow.

oh fuck

Hamiltons voice carries so much weight, looking forward to hearing this.

my professor just used "falltime" in a sentence

your move, shipley

lol

i need to listen to that j hud album

me too

i like this santell song called "yes"

http://www.vibe.com/posts/v-premiere-santell-yes-i-wanna-hear-you-say

i'm not like sure if this is really RnB or if it is stupid that i like it but i don't really care

so is mary j blige's album good?

it is! so much better than i was expecting, i was not particularly looking forward to it based on how parched of ideas the last one was. kind of feel blige's reluctance (or just lack of interest) in committing to a single style or aesthetic makes it less satisfying as an album but there's this fantastic doomed stateliness about the best tracks here. "mr wrong", obv, is an amazing song once you get past drake (i just fwd through his verse now, can't even take hearing his voice). i guess my other favourites are

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

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5U2t2pdYbM

that horrible dress she's wearing on the cover, though :( if you glance at the album cover in itunes or last.fm it looks like she's some kind of giant insect

i cannot wait to hear the anthony hamilton. loved his last album

i'm excited about this album, i love mr wrong

the robin thicke album is also pretty good on one listen - it mostly sticks to one mood, this kind of lilting, light-touch, bossanova-tinged seduction soul, but it does it really well. and it's not as if this year's fêted r&b releases aren't all about doing one mood over the whole album too. the oddest moment is "never give up", which apparently samples an orchestral piece that's based on traditional mexican dance

only thicke would think to call one of those soft, light songs "dangerous" though

Why did I just realize Anthony Hamilton is performing nearby tonight (aww man, too late for me to change plans and go)...

the last thicke was a little too heavy on cartoony bossanova slow jams, but i will definitely check for this one because something else is still a minor classic to me

oh it definitely doesn't add anything particularly new to the thicke aesthetic, apart from "never give up" and a kind of saadiqy retro exercise at the start that he pulls off pretty well. i think the thicke persona is becoming more palatable to me over time though, can't quite put my finger on why. at this particular juncture an album that's so listenable is rather welcome.

i like it too -- it's still goofy as hell, there's a hilariously odd but kinda fun protest song at the beginning -- but yeah it's very sunday morning, borderline jazzy background kinda music -- the song w/ lil wayne is the one that really stands out, oh and also there opener is 'something else' style soul -- i'm glad that there's no "shakin it 4 daddy" style songs on this tho

i like the new mary j just fine, too

worst cover, though

^^ I see what you did there.

Is it me or has that Blige album gotten no crossover promotional push? The last one also kinda sneaked out too. It's like she endures one- or two-album cycles of intense interest then recedes (e.g. The Breakthrough-Growing Pains got crossover promotion).

she's getting older and she and/or her label know it, plus straight up R&B itself barely every crosses over anymore. she's lucky to have retained as much of a fanbase as she has, frankly.

i'm fine with the cover image, it's very mary

but that font is retardd

wow this new k michelle song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGd6x1fRUP0

i LOVE the perspective she's singing from. didn't think her commitment to real talk would lead this kind of wry, zen acceptance of the ecology of relationships.

loving your use of 'ultra fucking ratchet' in the first post btw

:)

the line "kreayshawn swag with an ass like serena" always makes me lol

loving your use of 'ultra fucking ratchet' in the first post btw

― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Thursday, December 8, 2011 4:45 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

yesss

and that song is fire

the video is like half the length of the actual song, inexplicably (the song is ~out there~)

really quite surprised that this album turned out to be so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTCYn7ZZnG4

"for my cinderellas" is soooo good!!

I DID IT FOR THEM HEARTBROKEN RIDE OR DIE CHICKS
THE ONES WHO SPENT THEIR LIVES PUTTING UP WITH HIS ISH

I DID FOR THEM FOR THEM MR RIGHT-WISHIN, GLASS SLIPPER-MISSIN, HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER CHICKS

robin thicke is one of those people who makes life seem unfair. classically handsome, great voice, great songwriter, probably a great dancer, is rich. damnit

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Monday, December 19, 2011 8:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

AMAZING taste in women

― k3vin k., Monday, December 19, 2011 8:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah i was gonna say, you didn't even mention gorgeous movie star wife.

j0rdan otm though, there's a lot of character and playfulness in Thicke's music that people don't necessarily pick up on unless he's laying the goofy retro stuff on thick like on parts of Sex Therapy.

the nicki & thicki letterman performance should have put paid to any thoughts of robin thicke being a good dancer

after letting them sink in a bit i think i pretty much agree with shipz on the relative merits of the thicke and hamilton albums

keith sweat!! this is doooope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Y9QMA9LX0&ob=av2n

you guys are fucking up by not having that song in your life

this is pretty lol

http://www.essence.com/2011/12/21/robin-thicke-on-loving-black-women-interracial-dating-and-pleasing-paula/

I have a song on my new album called, “I Don’t Know How It Feels to Be You,” and she and I were in the middle of an argument and she said, “Robin, no matter how hard you try, or how compassionate you are, you’ll never know what it’s like to be a Black woman.” So I got up and I wrote this song in five minutes.

i can't.

Listening to the new Mya album... It sounds very very very sparkly so far.

omg @ that quote

new mya album what? what? where? who? how?

wikipedia says it was released in april?!

would anyone involved in r&b like to do some basic promo at any point? apart from on tumblr

wasn't it only released in japan?

wish I hadn't read that robin thicke interview

wish I hadn't heard of robin thicke

awesome album, y'all

when xmas is over and i have time i intend to tweet the top 5 most lol lines from the robin thicke album

i think now that robin thicke seems fully committed to being completely o_0 beneath the smooveness i can finally appreciate him 100%

http://i50.tinypic.com/8zlor4.gif

he's a treasure

I lol'd at the sam spade line

irl lol

unsure how to explain to my parents what i just laughed at

robin thicke has always been o_O, like ever since "when i get you alone". i mean, have you ever listened to the lyrics of "lost without u" for chrissakes?

this is a guy whose first single contained the couplet "baby girl you the shit/ that makes you my equivalent"

over a fifth of goddamn beethoven

*slowly gets off the robin thicke bandwagon*

j/k he nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6VLvt2ugtE

why does he keep rapping

idk, but that's a dope beat

<3 "compass or map" on the thicke

yeah I was feeling until the rapping started

the annoying this is it seems like the whole LES IS MORE album is gonna be him rapping, which is like..... idgi.

lol @ him repeating "gold chains" three times

why does he keep rapping

― Guy with deep but still obviously homosexual voice (brains), Sunday, December 25, 2011 7:30 PM (1 hour ago)

lol i knew who this was before i even clicked on the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gbZTmPiYA
woah

I mean, the song is kind of corny but his voice is amazing

Some seriously great, vicious storytelling going on in this new Bei Maejor track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02glY0p7Lw&feature=player_embedded

i just heard a meshell song on the radio and can't believe i haven't heard her album yet. rectifying this soon

That Luke James track is solid.