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Topic subjectRE: I don't think who it was made by determines whether it's R&B or not.
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12940002, RE: I don't think who it was made by determines whether it's R&B or not.
Posted by double 0, Mon Dec-07-15 01:27 PM
It actually does..

From wiki ". The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular."

It has evolved sonically and other people are involved but R&b is a technical term for a genre made up by a journalist to replace "black music" or "race music".. So it matters whose involved