If you all don't like what Sam has to say, take yo monkey ass to an fansite solely for the artist you like! Sam is telling the truth , Erykah is one of those artist that can pull a song out of a hole of a needle and still be tight!!! The ONLY PEOPLE THAT TALK SHIT ABOUT HER MUSIC ARE, DUMB ASS HOODRATS, AND THOSE THAT DON'T TRULY KNOW WHAT MUSIC IS!! I don't want to bring her name up , cuz God knows that she is only a human being like the rest of us, but we as lovers of real, raw, organic, free flowing music are so fucking tired of Beyonces, Rhiannas of today! We get suck of feeling like we are not valued as consumers of music, we are tired of the same meaningless, empty, shallow , materialist bullshit! Look at this Ke$a bitch, how in the fuck do you get a number one song talking about getting fucked up in the club, nasty ass men touching you all inappropriately?? How is that music?? I understand that things change, but you all know that you can't dismiss the time when you actually had to have "Talent" to get a record deal!!! Please before you make the assumption that someone is hating on Beyonce or Rhianna, please understand that before they even stepped on the scene music was still OK, not blaming them for how music is now, but just making that point ! I will put it in the words of Christina "Auto-Tune is for pussies"! R%B is fucking dead, it no longer is a genre where we as black people can call out own! We have allowed white society, these record companies to totally exploit the talent we had to make a damn dollar! I know that writing this rant is not going to do shit, to make ya'll wake up!!! I'm just in a place where I either listen only to the old school, or find new underground artist! Everybody from Usher to Mariah Carey have sold out, yeah I said it! Everything sound like a god damn theme song for a Nickelodeon TV show!!! Then what really messed up that an artist like Erykah is not recognized because she is not trying to shake her ass or sing about sleeping with a dude she just met, or trying on 99 stank ass wigs to enhance her looks!!!! I know that this cheap ass music era is not going to last shit has to get better!!!