The Laface era pretty much ruined everything meaning singing R&B over rap tracks like tyring to look "hard" while singing soul.Teddy Riley started the whole thing,I bet he regrets it but he didn't start the whole notion because even before "I want her" songs from full force or even some groups were adding hip hop to it but it wasn't going to the genre like actually trying to be like rap.I like Teena Marie "Square Biz" and "I feel for you" by Chaka Khan but the hip hop style R&B is too sexual I mean look at TLC their songs were a little over sexual and "hes mine" by mokenstef these are from the 90's and there have always been sex in rhythm and blues no doubt but to be overtly sexual instead of singing tradtional rhythm and blues maybe adding a little modern feeling but new jack swing was almost like hiphop or rather pop rap with singing on it and it sucked.music is evolving thats why I didn't complain about contemporary R&B meaning like in the early 80's because it still had real singing and over though it was more technical with synthesizers it still had a "soul felling" thats why when they say old school R&B 60's to 80's is because thats when R&B was the best but late 80's/90's was more urban and a little too sexual I mean some times they got mistaken for being rappers but I wish New jack swing never existed.
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