Why is R&B music more explicit than ever? It's complicated. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
R&B music seems more explicit, but is it really
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R&B music seems more explicit, but is it really
R&B music seems more explicit, but is it really? Well, it's complicated. R&B is both competitive and collaborative with hip-hop and its more expressive lyrics. With the two often merging
NEW YORK (AP) — Tank was nervous after sending his manager a preview of “When We” — he’d never released a song that explicit. “He’s like, ‘You’re crazy, but it’s jammin'!’” the R&B singer recalled.
NEW YORK — Tank was nervous after sending his manager a preview of “When We” — he’d never released a song that explicit. “He’s like, ‘You’re crazy, but it’s jammin’!’” the R&B singer recalled. “It ended up being my biggest record ever.” Released in 2017, the seductive chorus of “when
Being competitive — and collaborative — with hip-hop is one of the reasons today’s R&B is more explicit. Last year’s Luminate Year-End report found that R&B/hip-hop is America’s most popular genre, accounting for the most U.S. on-demand song streams and the largest share of total album consumption.