02/01/2015
R&B music has not died. The way it is presented and consumed has changed drastically. Not many DJs are allowed to play the music they love. Nearly all record stores have been driven out of business. The labels do not offer deals based on talent. All these factors have raised the cost to promote the music to a level of near impossibility.
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Artists Too Limited One has to wonder why mainstream Black music, once rich with R&B that promoted love, tenderness and substance, now includes one of two types of songs: vapid pop numbers by artists who sound more like robots than real people and commercial rap tracks that glorify violence, materia…