A deserving listen to Another Round is highly recommended. He expresses excitement to be a first-time dad on “II Pink Lines.” On the piano-laced “Bed is Listening,” Jaheim asks his talkative lover to keep their relationship troubles and joys only between them.
For the pre-album single, “Finding Your Way Back,” Jaheim works hard to retrace his last steps to rekindle a favorable romance. Serving as the solid follow-up to The Makings of a Man, the 2011 Best R&B Album contender is essentially an album that conveys thoughtful lyrics and tender ballads and midtempos with familiar and fresh sounding instrumentals. DANIELLE BRISSETT (D.B.)Īs the title suggests, Jaheim returned for Another Round of passion-fueled belts and beloved street poetry on his fifth album. In a little under an hour, the multidisciplinary artist gives way to an intricate experience in a manner that is complex and poetic. The glimmer of hope in the beautifully melancholy number arrives towards the end with “Junie,” inspired by Ohio Players member Junie Morrison. Solange covers as many necessary bases as possible including wanting a piece of something to call your own in a covetous space (“F.U.B.U.”) to establishing boundaries, while demanding respect (“Don’t Touch My Hair”). Inviting the general public to her spread, she expressed the pain, anguish, resilience and pride one can feel on a daily basis. Not many have been called to it, yet Solange willingly hit the nail with much accuracy on A Seat at the Table. To encapsulate a significant portion of what it means to be Black in America is a difficult task.
Released in 2011 with moderate initial success - reaching number one on the Billboard 200 chart and winning the Grammy award for Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 55th annual ceremony for “Love on Top”- 4 set the precedent for what was to come in the 2010s, while slowly being embraced as Beyoncé’s bravest, most soulful record to date. With 4, Beyoncé grabbed pieces from all eras of music, from ‘80s and ‘90s R&B on tracks like “Party” and “I Care” to ‘70s funk and Afrobeat on songs like “End of Time” and “Run The World (Girls)”, to create a sound that was bolder than anything she had ever done. “I really focused on songs being classics, songs that would last, songs that I could sing when I’m 40 and when I’m 60,” Beyoncé said in 2011.
What came out of that year-long break, however, was the need to produce a timeless R&B record. Riding high on the success of I Am… Sasha Fierce in the previous decade, Beyoncé took a much-needed hiatus from music to rediscover the world and herself. 4 - Beyoncé (2011)īefore the digital drop, before she got in formation, and before she renamed Coachella ‘Beychella,’ Beyoncé was laying the foundations of legendary status with 4. The albums are listed in alphabetical order. Still, with all the harsh talk about R&B, what remained consistent throughout this decade was the generous amount of extraordinary music from the artists we always adored to the ones we grew to love.Īfter many internal debates and sleepless nights, Rated R&B’s editorial team has compiled an unranked listof the 50 Best R&B Albums from the 2010s.
And let’s not forget about the ongoing debates about “the state of R&B” and critics declaring R&B a “dead genre” on more than occasion.
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