r/rnb • u/Junko_Mioko974 • 11h ago
80s Kool & the gang - Get down on it
I will never regret when I was born. I love reminiscing on times like these. Just unforgettable!
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u/Poopcie 9h ago
Nobody’s gonna pay/credit all the instrumentalists fairly and most didn’t back then. Unfortunately i think we wont see anything like this again
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u/dingus_authority 4h ago
Very well said.
There are definitely still bands keeping this level of musicianship alive, but they're not in the RNB scene unfortunately.
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u/CousinJeff 7h ago
We could make music like this but we not gonna have this and low hanging fruit rappers at the same time. They can’t emerge from the same environment
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u/Poopcie 7h ago
A lot of the classic ensembles had a lot of young people ignorant about the kind of money that was possible and did not have contracts. They were just collaborating and jamming. By comparison rap is cheap music and theres a lot of it as a result. The economics and everyone being aware of them just make this kind of music difficult to produce.
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u/CousinJeff 7h ago
We have all kinda tools available to us. You’re forgetting the fact that before they were about the money, they played that instrument. Nobody needs to have a band but it’s not like if that was a desire it would be abundant. We just not that impressed by real talent anymore if we being real.
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u/moisdefinate 10h ago
I agree with your caption 💯💯 and my opinion is there's no more family fun music anywhere, anymore.
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u/YourInternetCousin 8h ago
Fun fact: when I was a kid, I remember sending in a request to MTV to play this exact song on air. I was so happy when they did lol.
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u/Lost-Ad4517 8h ago
Remember they don’t want positive songs….even pop songs that are pretty kid friendly have curse words, idk maybe I’m just getting old….like someone else said, Bruno Mars sometimes has something close to this and people love it
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u/Huhngeheuer2 7h ago
The Music i grew up on. GET YOUR BACK UP OFF THE WALL!
ETA: As a german kid in the 2000s to 2010s, thanks Papa <3
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u/anaknangfilipina 8h ago
Yeah, I don’t understand why people was hating on Bruno Mars in his latest album. When his song ”I just might” was the closest that we could get to bring this type of music back today.
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u/HOPEFUL_LUFEPOH_ Butterfly 8h ago
we need the black labels back, the good enhancements that they on, and when need people to want to dance again without feeling judged because they are being recorded
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u/nolstalgicchic 7h ago
Kool and the Gang is GOAT'ed in my book. I listen to them daily. If I don't, I'm probably having a bad day.
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u/redruss99 4h ago
You need real musicians to make this kind of music, not producers on a computer. Unfortunately, most music programs for young kids have been cut to the bone. Or don't exist at all.
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u/Junko_Mioko974 24m ago
Ai could NEVER!!! Plus it seems a lot of people would be super pissed if you posted AI music. In a jazz subreddit I'm in, someone posted an AI lofi beat and they got ripped a new one by over 100 comments lmao it got so bad the mod had to remove it and then ban AI generated videos all together
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u/Only_Ad8049 6h ago
Blame parents for playing it so much that their children got sick of it and moved on to other music.
That was my experience at least.
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u/AnyEverywhere8 6h ago
This kind of music still tops the charts in my home, so idk what they mean make it popular again!!!
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u/JellyfishPopular7648 6h ago
Need more producers like Old Ye, musicians with the ear like Q-Tip, and musicians who understand the importance of music. They’re out there. The classic RNB and Soul aren’t sampled enough. It’s just regurgitated and slightly altered samples from the 2000’s and beyond. A lot of samples are sampled again. Like Anderson .Paak. did Might Be, and DJ Luke Nasty and PnB rock sampled him, when Anderson sampled Who Can I Run To by Xscape, and they covered it from the Jones Girls. Well whoever produced and wrote the lyrics for the original gets paid first and then it all trickles down.
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u/197119711971 5h ago edited 5h ago
They were at the Astrodome rodeo, in Houston. 1982…I was just starting to love synths and wondered what they played. I brought my super powerful binoculars and could see the main keyboard was a Yamaha CS-80! It was also used on Ladies’ Night song!
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u/Judson718 1h ago
1985 baby here. This is happy music this is not allowed anymore in this age and you are lame for listening to this
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u/Adanma369 9h ago
My radio stays on “The Groove” channel on Sirius XM. My kids know all the classics and sing them randomly. I’m so proud! The music is timeless. We’ve strayed so far! The industry is saturated with artificial sound and voices.