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Stevie is my dude and if you would've asked me a few years ago I would've said Stevie with no second thought..
But now I gotta say Marvin.. I remember blowing trees wit my ex listening to "I Want You", fam the music had me feeling so good I got up off the couch and started singing and slow dancing with her... Yambs were harvested many times that night..
Marvin Gaye is more Soul than RnB so I'm going to say no. If we're talking purely RnB it's R Kelly.
Did you read what I said? They are in different categories to me. RnB has become too broad of a term and encompasses too many genres and variations. It doesn't make sense to compare contemporary RnB with Soul greats all under the banner of "RnB." To me, when speaking of RnB in this day and age, it strictly covers contemporary style RnB, back to the late 80's through now. Soul music is way different. Marvin Gaye = Soul. R Kelly = RnB. MJ = Pop. Granted they all blur the lines a bit but like I said if we're talking purely RnB I'm going with R Kelly.What in the world are you talking aboutMarvin Gaye is more Soul than RnB so I'm going to say no. If we're talking purely RnB it's R Kelly.
It's crazy how some of you think a dude who wrote you remind me of my jeep is in the same league as Marvin or Stevie.
Did you read what I said? They are in different categories to me. RnB has become too broad of a term and encompasses too many genres and variations. It doesn't make sense to compare contemporary RnB with Soul greats all under the banner of "RnB." To me, when speaking of RnB in this day and age, it strictly covers contemporary style RnB, back to the late 80's through now. Soul music is way different. Marvin Gaye = Soul. R Kelly = RnB. MJ = Pop. Granted they all blur the lines a bit but like I said if we're talking purely RnB I'm going with R Kelly.
There's plenty of differences. Contemporary RnB is damn near closer to Rap than it is to Soul. If we're going to lump everyone together under RnB then how is Michael Jackson not the goat?
Contemporary RnB focuses less on the voice for starters. That's why you can have so many contemporary RnB artists who can hardly hold a note. It's more about the melodies and lyrics that relate to an urban crowd (mostly the hip hop crowd). Soul music's number one focus was the voice and harmonies. It was almost strictly based around concepts of love, as far as content goes. What Bobby Brown does and what Bobby Womack does are simply not the same lol. Through the 40's up even until the 70's I think it was still appropriate to categorize it all under Rhythm and Blues. But that has splinted so much up to now that it's really not imo. It may be semantics but in this day and age when someone says RnB, you can almost be certain they aren't referring to Soul music. That's why Neo-Soul has been dubbed such, so that there's no mistaking the fact that it is a re-emergence of the Soul sound, not to be compared with contemporary RnB. Think about that. Do we compare Chris Brown to Angie Stone? No we don't. So why are we comparing Marvin Gaye to R. Kelly? It's way too different.