New R&B Releases RD: March 2024 (Due May 1st)

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June 2021 R&B Releases (ONE Day Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. Ty
3. singingrulebritannia
4. back2blk
5. LBTrocks
6. Sambalada
7. Wave.
8. Soulsista
9. #LisaRinna
10. .indulgecountry
11. jtd Thee Stallion
12. 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲
13. @io
14. stallie
15. castleoblivion26
16. @antigonerising
17. CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker
18. GP
19. kimberly

Soon as one person corrects their list, reveals can begin sometime today!

    

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Pre-Reveal Questionnaire (At least 1 of y'all humor me)

1. What are you hoping/expecting to see in the bottom-6?

2. What do you think made the top-6?

3. Pulse and their female singer bias remains deeply rooted. There are SIX songs here with male lead vocals; how many do you think will make the top-10? Which one will go farthest?

(For reference: Been Through That; Good Love; Lessons Pressure; When You Love Someone; Why Don't You Touch Me)

4. What were your favorite discoveries?

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1. What are you hoping/expecting to see in the bottom-6? Not a fan of Sneaky Links, sorry to say! Other than that there's not really anything here that I feel that strongly about wanting to see at the bottom.

2. What do you think made the top-6? Hopefully Jazmine! Probably We Made It. Snoh tends to do well in these r&b rankdowns. I'll stop there because I'm really just shooting in the dark here.

3. Pulse and their female singer bias remains deeply rooted. There are SIX songs here with male lead vocals; how many do you think will make the top-10? Which one will go farthest? (For reference: Been Through That; Good Love; Lessons; Pressure; When You Love Someone; Why Don't You Touch Me) Tone Stith legit just sounds like a huskier H.E.R., so that lol. I'm crossing fingers that Why Don't You Touch Me does well and Good Love has potential, but honestly not sure I see any men other than Tone Stith making the top 10. We'll see if Pulse surprises me this time!

4. What were your favorite discoveries? My #2-5 songs. And while I don't have them super high on this list, I found the Shindellas intriguing as a concept so I'm going to check out more of their stuff when I get a chance.

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#22 (Trajectory)

Ty : 20
singingrulebritannia : 21
back2blk : 21
LBTrocks : 20
Sambalada : 20
Wave. : 20
Soulsista : 19
#LisaRinna : 21
.indulgecountry : 20
jtd Thee Stallion : 18
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 16
@io : 15
stallie : 19
castleoblivion26 : 21
@antigonerising : 22
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 22
GP : 22
kimberly : 22

We'll see if my WiFi cooperates long enough to knock out the bottom-6. #22 briefly escaped the bottom-6 but its four top-10 rankings weren't enough to keep it from ending up dead last.

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jtd Thee Stallion : 5
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 5
.indulgecountry : 6
Wave. : 10

LBTrocks : 12
GP : 12
@io : 14
Ty : 14
back2blk : 15
kimberly : 15
Soulsista : 16
Sambalada : 17

Cauliflower Over Wingstop
stallie : 21
@antigonerising : 22
castleoblivion26 : 22
singingrulebritannia : 22
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 22
#LisaRinna : 22
SHOOTER : 22

Muni Long's ode to catching feelings on the DL is our first casualty with close to half putting her inside their bottom-3. I knew it would be polarizing but damn if it doesn't get stuck in your head!

Sneaky Link is taken from her second EP, Nobody Knows, out now.

[.indulgecountry]

Well damn, shit... I loved this, lmao.

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#21 (Trajectory)

Ty : 19
singingrulebritannia : 14
back2blk : 17
LBTrocks : 18
Sambalada : 15
Wave. : 12
Soulsista : 13
#LisaRinna : 15
.indulgecountry : 16
jtd Thee Stallion : 20
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 22
@io : 17
stallie : 21
castleoblivion26 : 22
@antigonerising : 21
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 21
GP : 21
kimberly : 21

Already losing our highest SD and it's taking both #1 and #22 ranks with it!

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Sambalada : 1
singingrulebritannia : 2
@io : 2
Wave. : 5
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 8

castleoblivion26 : 17
#LisaRinna : 17
LBTrocks : 18
.indulgecountry : 18
kimberly : 18
SHOOTER : 18
Ty : 18

Socially Distanced Molecules
@antigonerising : 20
back2blk : 21
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 21
GP : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 22
Soulsista : 22
stallie : 22

Haitus Kaiyote said hermaphroditic creatures deserve love songs, too! Chivalry Is Not Dead, taken from their new album Mood Valiant, was inspired by the mating rituals of leopard slugs and seahorses.

"After we did [our second album] Choose Your Weapon, we had to make radio edits of our songs, and all of our shit is like six or seven minutes long! So ‘Chivalry’ was me fucking with the ‘hit record’ formula. I’m gonna write a song that’s 3:40 long, and it’s about sex, but I’m gonna make it fucking weird. Examples from the natural world that are fucking with the status quo." - Nai Palm (Rolling Stone, June 2021)

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Lame

[singingrulebritannia]

It sucks that Red Room was released 3 months ago because I'm sure it would've scored a lot better here

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I knew this would die quick but I couldn't resist including it. I wanted to use Red Room, which I think would fare better with this audience, but it was already 3-4 months too old for the list.

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Jul 25, 2021 20:23:18 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

It sucks that Red Room was released 3 months ago because I'm sure it would've scored a lot better here

Jul 25, 2021 20:23:24 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

I knew this would die quick but I couldn't resist including it. I wanted to use Red Room, which I think would fare better with this audience, but it was already 3-4 months too old for the list.

[Sambalada]

Mess

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#20 (Trajectory)

Ty : 17
singingrulebritannia : 18
back2blk : 16
LBTrocks : 19
Sambalada : 19
Wave. : 21
Soulsista : 21
#LisaRinna : 19
.indulgecountry : 19
jtd Thee Stallion : 19
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 18
@io : 19
stallie : 17
castleoblivion26 : 17
@antigonerising : 19
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 19
GP : 19
kimberly : 20

3rd-lowest SD leaves next with only three bottom-3s (and four top-10s).

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

I will say though, Chivalry is not Dead was an amazing listen, and based on the Redd Room recommendations here, I can't wait to dive into more

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#LisaRinna : 3
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 7
Soulsista : 9
back2blk : 10

CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 12
stallie : 13
@antigonerising : 14
castleoblivion26 : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 14
.indulgecountry : 15
singingrulebritannia : 16
kimberly : 16
SHOOTER : 16
@io : 17
Ty : 17
GP : 19

Just Gas
LBTrocks : 20
Wave. : 20
Sambalada : 22

It really took four people to produce this??

Pressure is the lead single from Kenny Lattimore's upcoming tenth album. It will be his first release via his own label, Sincere Soul, in partnership with the SoNo Recording Group.

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#19 (Trajectory)

Ty : 22
singingrulebritannia : 22
back2blk : 22
LBTrocks : 22
Sambalada : 22
Wave. : 22
Soulsista : 22
#LisaRinna : 22
.indulgecountry : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 22
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 20
@io : 18
stallie : 18
castleoblivion26 : 20
@antigonerising : 20
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 20
GP : 20
kimberly : 19

This one was the most hated for a minute but managed to pull in six top-10s, enough to boost it out the bottom-3.

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.indulgecountry : 2
kimberly : 6
jtd Thee Stallion : 8
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 8
LBTrocks : 10
@io : 10

Soulsista : 11
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 14
stallie : 14
@antigonerising : 15
back2blk : 16
GP : 16
Wave. : 18

Flaccid
singingrulebritannia : 20
Sambalada : 20
SHOOTER : 20
castleoblivion26 : 21
#LisaRinna : 21
Ty : 22

Indie singer-songwriter Inayah takes no responsibility for the blue balls left behind in her wake as she swerves from one Woody to the next.

The track, taken from her Side A EP, samples the 1996 Case (featuring Mary J. Blige & Foxy Brown) classic Touch Me, Tease Me.

[.indulgecountry]

FUCK. I loved this! Y'all ain't shit.

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#18 (Trajectory)

Ty : 21
singingrulebritannia : 19
back2blk : 20
LBTrocks : 21
Sambalada : 21
Wave. : 19
Soulsista : 20
#LisaRinna : 20
.indulgecountry : 21
jtd Thee Stallion : 21
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 17
@io : 20
stallie : 15
castleoblivion26 : 15
@antigonerising : 16
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 18
GP : 18
kimberly : 18

This looked like another bottom-3 lock until a last minute surge helped keep it inside the top-20; 10th-lowest SD.

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Whatever this is, I dropped it.

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stallie : 3
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 4
jtd Thee Stallion : 6
Wave. : 6

#LisaRinna : 11
castleoblivion26 : 12
back2blk : 13
kimberly : 13
GP : 14
singingrulebritannia : 15
@antigonerising : 16
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 16
Ty : 16
Sambalada : 18
Soulsista : 18
.indulgecountry : 19

Love Don't Live Here Anymore
@io : 21
SHOOTER : 21
LBTrocks : 22

Tone Stith and H.E.R. take a page out of Donell Jones' playbook by flipping his 1999 R&B classic Where I Wanna Be for When You Love Someone, taken from his third EP entitled FWM.

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#17 (Trajectory)

Ty : 8
singingrulebritannia : 8
back2blk : 14
LBTrocks : 15
Sambalada : 17
Wave. : 14
Soulsista : 16
#LisaRinna : 18
.indulgecountry : 15
jtd Thee Stallion : 15
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 15
@io : 16
stallie : 16
castleoblivion26 : 16
@antigonerising : 15
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 15
GP : 17
kimberly : 17

This one fell pretty hard but it only has two bottom-3s which helped keep it inside the top-20. SECOND-lowest SD.

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@antigonerising : 7
.indulgecountry : 7
Ty : 7
Wave. : 9
kimberly : 10
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 10

castleoblivion26 : 11
SHOOTER : 11
singingrulebritannia : 12
stallie : 12
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 15
Sambalada : 16
#LisaRinna : 16
Soulsista : 17
GP : 18
back2blk : 19
LBTrocks : 19

Neat Freaks
@io : 20
jtd Thee Stallion : 21

Messy Love is the third release from NAO's impending third album (the release date yet to be announced). She released Woman with Lianne La Havas last year and followed it with Antidote featuring Adekunle Gold at the top of this year.

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Bonus: Red Room (Hiatus Kaiyote)



For the HK haters in the room, please reconsider!

[back2blk]

Y’all got some taste in here

[#LisaRinna]

So far good except Kenny and Tone!

[GP]

H.E.R. needs to go

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#16 (Trajectory)

Ty : 13
singingrulebritannia : 12
back2blk : 7
LBTrocks : 12
Sambalada : 13
Wave. : 16
Soulsista : 17
#LisaRinna : 16
.indulgecountry : 18
jtd Thee Stallion : 16
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 19
@io : 21
stallie : 10
castleoblivion26 : 18
@antigonerising : 18
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 16
GP : 15
kimberly : 16

Who's around for the next 6? #16 finished with the 3rd-highest SD; we're losing ranks as high as #1 and low as #22 again.

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GP : 1
back2blk : 4
SHOOTER : 4
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 7
#LisaRinna : 7
@antigonerising : 8
castleoblivion26 : 9

singingrulebritannia : 11
stallie : 11
jtd Thee Stallion : 13
Sambalada : 15
🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 : 17

Learning the Hard Way
Soulsista : 20
Ty : 20
LBTrocks : 21
.indulgecountry : 21
Wave. : 21
@io : 22
kimberly : 22

Eric Roberson is the self-proclaimed king of independent R&B. After a failed deal with Warner in the early 90s, he went on to form his own Blue Erro Soul label in the early 2000s and has self-released 14 projects to date; he also earned two Grammy nominations in the now-defunct Best Urban/Alternative Performance category and co-wrote Vivian Green's 2002 hit Emotional Rollercoaster.

Lessons is the first single from his 15th album slated to arrive by year's end.

[back2blk]

Y’all had better taste yesterday LMAO