Whats Your Male RNB Mount Rushmore?

[Goldie]

 

[Chi-Town B]

R Kelly
Usher
Luther
Stevie Wonder

 

[Goldie]

MJ
Kellz
Babyface
Usher

 

[Lab Baby]

Babyface has been underrated to the point of disrespect. He's wrote for/produced multiple Mt Rushmores men and women alike.

Face
MJ
Marvin
Ugh... Kels I guess. I would throw his cases at him, but everyone else named in this thread except Face got similar shit on their jacket.

 

[Goldie]

 

[King Poetic]

Marvin
MJ
Stevie
Babyface

 

[5 Grand]

I hate to say it but MJ was the King of Pop. He didn't claim to be a R&B singer.

 

[Goldie]

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I hate to say it but MJ was the King of Pop. He didn't claim to be a R&B singer.

I agree. He had some R&B songs, particularly when he was part of the Jackson 5, but I can't see putting him on the R&B Mt. Rushmore over people who specialized in R&B.

 

[O.G.]

I call pre 80's music, soul. But maybe that's just me.

 

[Playmaker88]

Stevie
Marvin
Luther
Maxwell/Saadiq

 

[Black_Samson]

Robert Johnson
Stevie Wonder
Luther Vandross
D’Angelo
Anderson Paak

 

[Lab Baby]

I hate to say it but MJ was the King of Pop. He didn't claim to be a R&B singer.

I'd say his cut off point would be Thriller where he started working with Eddie Van Halen, Vincent Price and them niggas. His solo work up until Off The Wall and some stuff after that (Butterflies, You Are Not Alone, etc) is still Rushmore tier material. Good point tho.

I just realized... not one mention of Prince in this thread. I see Chris Brown, Neyo and one of you niggas said Anderson Paak. The audacity.

 

[Goldie]

I see we need a thread on how music genres work.


Saying MJ isn't RnB is blasphemous. MJ has never not been RnB, from the J5 to death.

 

[Shaquille Sunflower]

MJ
Stevie
Marvin
Luther

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I see we need a thread on how music genres work.


Saying MJ isn't RnB is blasphemous. MJ has never not been RnB, from the J5 to death.

How do you define R&B?

Are Thriller, I'm Bad, and Black or White R&B songs? If your answer is yes, would you say the same thing if White artists made them instead of MJ?

 

[Playmaker88]

No one think of Mike as an rnb artist he makes Rnb music hes in his own category as Prince is in his

 

[Goldie]

How do you define R&B?

Are Thriller, I'm Bad, and Black or White R&B songs? If your answer is yes, would you say the same thing if White artists made them instead of MJ?

You're kinda making my point. Pop is all marketing.


Pop doesn't have a sound, it's just "popular music". That's why a nigga like Bruno Mars can drop a whole funk and doowop album and it'll fall under pop. JT and Nsync had all rnb producers and writers but it'll fall under pop.

Some people crossover and become so POPular that they enter the pop category.

 

[Goldie]

No one think of Mike as an rnb artist he makes Rnb music

 

[The Lonious Monk]

You're kinda making my point. Pop is all marketing.


Pop doesn't have a sound, it's just "popular music". That's why a nigga like Bruno Mars can drop a whole funk and doowop album and it'll fall under pop. JT and Nsync had all rnb producers and writers but it'll fall under pop.

Some people crossover and become so POPular that they enter the pop category.

That's a fair assessment of the term Pop, but it doesn't address my question.

I asked you specifically if you think Thriller, I'm Bad, and Black or White are R&B songs? If yes, would you say the same thing if white people were the ones that made them?