Sevyn Streeter is making major moves and is taking BET along for the ride.
How so? By inviting her pals Harmony Samuels, Rachel Kerr, Elijah Blake, Lashawn Daniels to join her in a series named ‘STATE OF R&B.’
Why Elijah Blake felt 90s R&B was able to accommodate black superstardom?
What Rachel feels the period did so uplift black femininity and womanhood?
Why everyone cites Brandy and Toni Braxton as inspiration?
Brilliant and thought provoking insight below…
Truly insightful.
Here’s hoping this conversation inspires the industry’s power players to make the necessary changes as we can all agree that a diverse industry is a lucrative one.
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I do feel that “BLACK” R&B is being cheated these day. I say “BLACK” R&B because other races make R&B also but they are labeled as Pop or something else because they are not black. I just think rappers should help make Black R&B popular again just like they helped rap become international back in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
Agreed.
THIS!!
PS: Never Say Never album was and still is amazing!!
There is no such thing as “Black R&B”. R&B was started by blacks, consumed more by blacks and is dominated by black artists.
You don’t read well do you?
These are babies. They don’t really know the timeline of 90s R&B. I need to be on this panel.
Sevyn is like 30 years old
It’s half our fault. Black music is so generic now it’s easily copied. Black superstars used to have distinct sounds that forces the masses to us.
R&b lost its appeal when R&b artists thought it was ok to disrespect women and their bodies for sexual pleasure.
That’s awesome & it’s sad R&B music is sold by Caucasian singers, yet people of color don’t get the same respect for the same vocals!! ??♂️
Yesssss! Its about time this is being talked about. I am so tired of all the r&b artist not being heard/recognized, not selling like pop and rap artist or hell even being a big category at the grammys. And tbh R&b comes first to me than pop, rap etc.