I am pretty open to most genres of music (excluding country - sorry), but from time to time I have to admit, that I don't feel like there are alot of brothers that still do real rhythm and blues. Crazy things is, most of the "brothers" that still do R&B aren't brothers at all. (Jamie Lidell, Mayer Hawthorne, Dallas Green - his folk sometimes bleeds into the land of R&B, John Mayer - yes I consider him R&B, Justin, etc.) Hear me out. I know there are the Tanks, Dweles, Phontes, Musiqs, Maxwells, etc. I respect the brothers that can respectfully walk that thin line between pop, R&b, all else too - Trey, Chris, & Usher. But when brothers meet me and tell me they sing R&B and they are looking for a producer, I almost always get the same rap - Wack & B, Sex & B, etc. Cats don't respect Kells as the should - as a case study. They bite one element of his persona (baby makers), but they don't learn from the side of him that wrote the great R&B songs. A lot of what is pawned off as R&B these days is really what I like to call "get the girl music" -get her sexed, get her naked, get her wet. But what I think cats miss is the fact that if they wrote and produced "real" songs, they would accomplish all the above...LOL!
I said all that to say I'm always elated when brothers get it together and make Good, Balanced, Soulful R&B records.
