Again it's a choice.
Like, I don't know how you gonna say it's not.
You got
Bryson Tiller
Brent Faiyaz
Bruno Mars still active, him and Anderson Pakk just put together a fire album in the past 5 years, that had rap and rnb....
If you decide to play some hood shit when "Leave the door open" was on the radio..... Again... It's a choice.
It's plenty of examples.... But y'all wanna blame outwardly when it's niggas with no game making bad choices
The average dude 22-28 year black male aint bumping them dudes you named, all they know is YBs, Moneybaggs, Chris Brown. Them dudes gotta change it up to fit in. R&B dudes have to sound like rappers? Why? When R&B has always been about being cool and sexy, you may have a little, a little aggressiveness in the music, but for the most part, the music, your persona kept you in the cool or sexy box. Not in 2026. R&B dudes can come off as rappers
But going back to the statement I was making, Your average 16-29 year old black dude don't know about the Kems, the Tanks, the Maxwells.
When we was 11-30, we knew about the R&B cats, Kels, Keith Sweat, Ginuwine, 112, Maxwell, Bobby, etc, and they all were cool are in that sexy box and that's who some of us wanted to get the game from or have game like from. Grab pieces of game from
Guess who these dudes are grabbing game and style from now? that 11-30 year crowd?? Your Youngboys, Moneybaggs, Young Miami, etc. which, I stated, their style is not sexy and cool
They only know what they know and they are going to copy that style, which that style promotes what???...... being sexy and cool?? again not in the way that I saw how sexy and cool look
TLC had an album called Crazy, Sexy and Cool, and you can look at the cover and see it. From the start of their careers, up until that album, you looked at that cover and you or many said, this Album Title matches them.