Just take a piece of one of those 4 and rotate like a pair of shoes
The weeknd tried and look at him

The love is shaky these days

It exists but its the underground of RnB

Still great tho

Because aint nothing sweet out here

Lot of yall starting to turn into R&B Boomers/Old heads.

@op posting one of the singers literally responsible for this birth of this kind of style of singing proves yall don’t really know what yall talkin bout.

That type of R&B still exists. And the genre’s barely mainstream for yall to hit me with the “nOt In ThE mAiNsTrEaM” excuse.

Not stanning but when HOB came out, this type of R&B almost phased out immediately

HoB/Novacane/Take Care

Because we're living in dark times where mental health issues have skyrocketed and the youth is depressed. Supply and demand.

There is a clear societal gap between today and early 2000's.

Hopefully this s*** turns tho, cuz a lot of songs in @op are fire

This gif

FEELINGS, SO DEEP IN MY FEELINGS

Yeah if anything theres been too much struggle neo soul

Damn I came itt to s/o Lianne

can you gimme some examples of artists that you would consider dark RnB edglords?

Able Testify is a pretty good example
6lack?

Same reaction 😭

KeiyaA out now
Nai Palm out now

Raveena bringing it back

we are lonely that’s why

i’m not joking

Tank embodies what you’re describing

beyonce too

Along with brandy

Basically real vocalists that are primarily traditional in their approach to RnB.

This generation is farrrr removed from the sound though so it’s gone for good on a mainstream level.m

Blame drake, Weeknd, and the whole wave of cold, moody, night time driving music.

Probably the closest a modern artist has come to bringing this sound back

Aside from the heavy influence of dark R&B, I think it isn’t prevalent because nobody has found a way to update the sound for modern times without making it sound like a trap song. Boo’d Up is probably one of the better examples of it but it’s few and far between.

Maybe that’s why they fell off

Need to do like Travis and make that s*** dark