R&B is missing the love. There's no real passion and love in R&B anymore. Artist like Whitney, Luther, Gerald Levert, Rick James, and many more etc had a passion and love and want to pursue and do great things musically. R&B is missing that love. There's not a lot of love in it anymore because while it's always been about the money and selling, it's because so self driven about money that the business has just gotten to the point where the art or again love isn't even regarded anymore. Now it's all about sounded just like the anybody else. Oh and another thing, there's that thing called originality too. That's missing, big time! No one wants to add there own twist and thing into the mix because they'd much rather just get paid and make music for the here and now and not music that will stand the test of time.