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When Did Rap Become So R&B?
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I swear before you even mentioned it my mind went straight to Back in the day.
Edit: Lauryn is the Goat to me.
I think of RnB artists as rappers who can't rap and hip hop artists as singers who can't sing
You are THE Hip-Hop Historian
R U Still Down by Jon B && 2Pac is a classic???
So is jazz the mother of both?
Ja!!! It’s murda!!!!!!
R&B is meant to be more about love and relationships as well as being in nice fantasies and realities while Hip Hop/Rap is meant to be more about cash, cars, drugs, jewelry, clothing, fashion, dancing, hard beats, partying, And some other kind of subjects or topics at least that is how they started out
Difference between RnB and Rap
Is that RnB artistes compliments the beats
In Rap, in nowadays cases the beats carry the song and not the rapper…..
Because of exactly that. It's just Rap that made it to rnb culture. Not actual Hip Hop music that mad eit
Hell yeah!
Rap never became R&B. Hip hop just shifted to Trap and R&B for what’s popular.
The question should be:
"When did R&B become so Rap?"
Murs fucked my head up with the last one, uzi and post malone do more singing than rapping (very true) and they're considered rappers ,so can you call erykah badu and Nate dogg two of the best emcee's of all time . I like how he separates emcee from rapper. emcee is a shortened version of the term master of ceremony , in that regard erykah and Nate , def can be two of the best of all time
I wish you talked more about New Jack Swing
man i ain't supporting no skinny jeans & blouse wearing so called rap.. It's Trap…Crap
I've seen lil Uzi say he isn't a rapper in an interview.
Where's r kelly?
Actually Uzi & Posty are rappers but they are labeled as Melodic Rappers, these rappers that put more of an emphasis on Vocals/Singing than Flow & Delivery while still having Bars. Examples are Swae Lee, Lil Mosey, XXXTentacion or Juice WRLD
LL cool J in the 80's?
Why didn't he mention the GOATs Tupac and Biggie featuring R&B artists and singing some of their own hooks?
I think Nate Dogg is best r and b singer besides mj. And I think post Malone is more of a pop singer
Rap
Dr. Dre
Ice Cube
Eazy E
Prodigy
R&B
Mariah Carey
Aaliyah
Janet Jackson
Monica
Also, people use way too much auto tune and they all sound the same!
I think that the difference now is that the music is dumb down and there is no substance!
Like Big Moe doesn’t exist ?
U dont put X pitcure behinde u
POST MALONE AINT NO RAPPER !!
Even the Cold Crush brothers did harmony…
And as far the sing-songy styles sum west coast dudes were doing in the 90s….I believe that goes to Mr. Rick Walters aka MC Ricky D aka Slick Rick…
Kurtis Blow did love ballads early…
I like r&b type of rap
Rap killed real hip hop the b boi, bgurl, dj, funk, r&b, techno, graffiti… rap sold out I’m not saying I don’t like rap I love rap but not the violence
This video totally fails to mention how Kurtis Blow, who was the first rapper to achieve gold status with his album, “The Breaks” in 1981, sang on a rap song called, “Day Dreaming.” Rap has always had R&B mixed in it, for its inception. Learn your roots, kids!!
if they rap and sing they are ringers
This guy has no history of music at all. Gmflash and the furious 5 had girls love the way he spins signs of the time in 1982.then 2yrs later 1984 utfo did rocxxan rocxxan and ya co wanna be with me in 1988.heavy d and al be sure somebody for me.utfo again master baby 88.then you had itchin for a scratch from tender love force md's 1985.elements of rap was in Bobby brown new edition in 85 and 88.then in the 90s bell biv divo had poison thought it was me.hell the black flames was the 2nd act to sign with def jam. Country hip hop was rapping duke sir mix a lot square dance rap in 85 and 86.this homey comb thing looking mothafucka knows nothing about hip hop which I started in 1979 Angie stone we gone funk u right on up 82.
Didn't whodini & nem sing though. Them MFs was so ahead of their time.
The difference is. The 90s songs infused with rap. The Songs where dope and the artists were talented.. These dudes nowadays have zero talent!!
I would rather hear rnb rap rather than mumble rap nonsense.
and Queen latifa and MC lite too was Rap and R&B
Nate dog is a G.O.A.T
I personally think many of those vocals could be influenced by reggae too, rather than just RnB. That would make sense too, as reggae DJs were one influence on early rap
The early West coast electro producers (before real West coast rap era) like Arabian Prince (later a co-founder of NWA), Egyptian Lover, and World Class Wreckin' Crew (with Dr. Dre and DJ Yella) were pretty heavily influenced by RnB sounds.
Then the Gangsta rap sound came along replacing that early sound, but it makes sense that they sort of went back to it later in the G-funk era.