Community, right now. That's one big problem. Someone has to make the music. Either that's going to be the singer himself or herself, or some other musicians.

Most of what is passed off as R&B now is being made with a completely 2017/2018 Hip-Hop sensibility (which equates to Trap). I haven't seen any evidence that the Trap sound will ever result in high quality R&B on a mass scale. It's been 10 years now and it hasn't happened yet.

The folks who would be the ones to write good R&B again are mostly playing in churches every Sunday and making their living that way. I tapped into that world by becoming FB friends with 40 - 50 guitarists and bassists who all play churches (and many of them are HBCU grads with music degrees, living in the deep South.)

Until young Black people decide that they want to hear good R&B all the time from lots and lots of artists again, things won't change.