170893, RE: Very Overrated Article for many reasons
Posted by murph71, Fri Jan-27-12 04:03 PM
>a certain man Named Teddy Riley though Brother was sampling
>and looping and man if we are going to use the term pure R&B
>without samples and loops etc.. then we gotta go back to 88.
>because the Laface exposion, Jam and lewis in there prime and
>peak, Teddy Riley and NJS that was the last time of the real
>untouched combo IMO,
>
>Janet Jackson's thats the way love goes had a sample in it.
>
>i know what you are saying, i'm just saying that the last of
>the real un tampered with R&B was in 88.
>
>mariah sampled "Dream Lover" back in 93.
That's all mentioned in my piece Maxx...I even have Jimmy Jam talking about it...There were indeed a few acts starting to do the sample thing because of Mary/Puffy...
But after 93? Practically everybody was doing that shit....And even more importantly, hip-hop acts were outselling and out-influencing their R&B counterparts...
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