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I totally forgot I was in the Namie thread, and I was going to answer the R&B vs Hip hop post using koda's music.

@Chiharo: Hip hop songs are usually upbeat, and very beat centered. You have a lot of hard hits with smooth transitions. Traditionally, R&B music is most associated with ballads, and to me, it's much more arrangement centered with beats that are a lot simpler, and less of a variety that you see in hip hop that mixes up a lot. You also have a higher emphasis on a smooth melody.

Examples in Namie's music...hip hop is gonna be like Want me Want me. And yeah, Baby Don't Cry is so R&B, but it's not THAT pure. You have that arrangement, and the super smooth melody though. I think it's reaaaalllyyy hard to have pure songs of the R&B type without sounding cheesy.

Get Myself Back also has a lot of R&B elements, but I think the pop elements outshine them. And I just noticed that drdolce said the same thing~ we think alike ;P

Sexy Girl is also one of those.


I'm not remembering Namie's discog right now, but if you want some seriously pure R&B songs examples, you can listen to Koda's feel or 24. Those could have been ripped straight off a 90s album.