![]() ![]() Gil Scott-Heron wrote achingly about alcoholism in the Black community on "The Bottle," while TLC sang about the impact of AIDS on "Waterfalls." Marvin Gaye ("What's Going On") and Bill Withers ("I Can't Write Left-Handed") spoke out against the Vietnam War using different perspectives.įrom timeless love songs to heartbreak healers and surefire uplifters you'll want to dance to, these 30 songs illustrate where R&B was in its early days, how it has developed since, and where it's going in the future. While many an iconic song has been written about blossoming love (Etta James' "At Last," Al Green's "Let's Stay Together") or romantic strife (Nina Simone's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," Teddy Pendergrass' "Love T.K.O."), plenty more R&B records carry urgent social and political messages. Some of the most fruitful periods in modern music came in the world of R&B, including Motown, the Philly soul scene, and even the 21st century wave of alternative R&B. In All Night, the guest stars who’ve been in either white or black the entire visual album now. Like jazz before it, and hip-hop in the ensuing years, R&B came out of Black America, bringing previously marginalized stories and perspectives into the ears of millions of listeners, first in the U.S. Redemption (All Night): Aje is the goddess of wealth, prosperity, dyes, and colors. Whether the instrumental is a lush Motown arrangement with swooning horns and strings or a slinky digital creation, it has to add depth to the record and make the singer sound better. A powerful, vulnerable vocal performance-the kind that artists like Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, and Solange have delivered in spades-is key. This story first appeared on sound of R&B has changed tremendously in the last 75 years, but the ingredients that make a timeless soul track remain the same. “The ups and downs are worth it/ Long way to go but we’re working/ We’re flawed but we’re still perfect for each other, yeah yeah/ Sometimes I thought we’d never see the light/ We went through hell with heaven on our side/ This beach ain’t always been no paradise” - Beyoncé, commenting on the health of her marriage Beyoncé and Jay-Z, referencing the marital struggles they addressed on Lemonade and 4:44 “You know how I met her/ We broke up and got back together/ To get her back I had to sweat her” “We keeping it real with these people, right?/ Lucky I ain’t kill you when I met…” Lemonade is Beyoncé’s sixth album: 12 tracks, accompanied by an hour-long film, which premiered in the United. “You fucked up the first stone, we had to get remarried” Entry level: you are aware there is a musician and public figure Beyoncé. “If me and my wife beefing, I don’t care if the house on fire, I’m dying n-, I ain’t leaving/ Ty Ty take care of my kids after he done grieving/ If y’all don’t understand that we ain’t meant to be friends” - Jay-Z, talking about weathering marital strife and shouting out his longtime friend Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith “Real friends, better than your friends/ SMS them, they know all my bidness/ I don’t know what I would do without my crew/ I ain’t makin’ no room … we fly, I cry, our souls exposed/ We smoke, we laugh, your stress, my stress/ Closer than kin, I’m blessed, you blessed” - Beyoncé, talking about her tight-knit social life “Had me sitting next to you on the plane/ And I knew straight away, the next time we would speak was like two years away/ You had a man, you shut it down until you two had a break/ I bet that dude rued the day” - Jay-Z, seemingly referencing the early stages of his relationship with Beyoncé “My success can’t be quantified/ If I gave two fucks about streaming numbers, would’ve put ‘Lemonade’ up on Spotify/ Fuck you, fuck you” - Beyoncé, talking about her decision to keep Lemonade a Tidal exclusive ”Shout-out to Rumi and Sir/ Love, Blue” - Blue Ivy Carter, making a quick cameo and acknowledging her siblings “My great-great-grandchildren already rich/ That’s a lot of brown children on your Forbes list/ Probably looking around my compound on my fortress … I be ridin’ around with my seat reclining/ Droppin’ my daughter off at school every morning” - Beyoncé, offering a glimpse of daily life in the Carter household ”Tell the Grammy’s fuck that 0 for 8 shit/ Have you ever seen the crowd goin’ apeshit?” - Jay-Z, referencing this year’s Grammy Awards, where he was nominated for eight honors - the most of any nominee - but did not win any “I said no to the Super Bowl/ You need me, I don’t need you/ Every night we in the end zone/ Tell the NFL we in stadiums too” - Jay-Z, seemingly confirming reports that he had turned down an offer to play the 2018 halftime show ![]()
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