Ne-Yo has a new album planned for later this year, but he admits he can’t get anything done right now either. All could spin their records for days on end without dipping out of the charts.īut more than anything, these sets are reminders that artists and their families are trapped at home, scared and confused and bored same as everyone. “A lot of the time, writers didn’t get the appreciation that they deserved.”Īfter a few months of these quarantine face-offs, that might well change forever for a whole new generation: Up next are crunk and pop-R&B titans Lil Jon and T-Pain, followed by New Jack Swing leviathans Babyface and record executive L.A. “Songwriters for a long time were the guy behind the guy you knew the songs, but that’s where it stopped unless you read the credits,” Ne-Yo said. Blige and Aaliyah, and ended with Mariah Carey’s undisputed 2004 hit “We Belong Together.” Ne-Yo uncorked Rihanna, Jeezy, Keri Hilson and Jamie Foxx, and capped it with Beyoncé’s 2006 smash “Irreplaceable.” Over a couple of hours, Austin brought hits he’d written and/or produced by Ginuwine, Bryson Tiller, Toni Braxton, Mary J. He went against Mannie Fresh.”Īustin and Ne-Yo’s battle was a wildly entertaining lesson in recent R&B history, showing off the contours of their catalogs and reminders of songs that Gen Z fans might only have recognized from samples. But damn, Scott, why? Why would you do it? We gon’ miss you, bro. ”Sometimes people do stupid things, you know, and you gotta pay for it. Today I gotta go pick out a casket for my homeboy, Scott Storch,” Mannie Fresh said before their battle (and it was widely agreed that he did, indeed, murder his pal Storch). The comments sections can be as entertaining as what’s happening on screen.
Beyonce has an uncle named Larry Beyince. Yeah man he can make songs for 50 Cent I don't like, songs for Chris Brown I don't like, songs for Jadakiss I don't like.
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And perhaps it’s no surprise that, in a time of both existential crisis and unceasing boredom, we turned to the cool uncles responsible for the hits from our youth as we gaze out our windows and long for the club. In all of this, these R&B and classic rap DJ battles have become a desperately craved bright spot. Already, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of beloved artists including Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis Jr. No one knows when or if artists will return to the road, or how many livelihoods have been forever damaged. Major festivals like South by Southwest and Coachella were postponed or canceled Live Nation and AEG put every one of their tours on ice (though some staging firms made the most of it by shifting to build hospitals). The music industry was one of the first to be devastated by the spread of COVID-19. It turned into a moment for everyone to appreciate good music, to shine a light where it was deserved.” “I don’t even know if we kept score, but we had 83,000 people in there. “Right now the thing in hip-hop is to sample songs from the ‘90s, so let me introduce you to Johntá, who was writing them,” he said. It’s showing a new generation where a lot of what we’re doing now came from,” said the singer and songwriter Ne-Yo from Atlanta, a few days after his battle with acclaimed R&B songwriter Austin (they fought to a draw, but Austin was probably the biggest beneficiary, Ne-Yo agreed). “I think it’s a cool stroll down memory lane. Some face-offs showcased a couple of decades’ worth of smashes from successful but under-heralded songwriters the-Dream’s ended with him knocking golf balls into his pool.
On successive nights billed like boxing title fights, they live-streamed their DJ battles against pals Sean Garrett, Johntá Austin and Scott Storch on their Instagram accounts. But afterward, at the producers’ behest, peers like the-Dream, Ne-Yo and Mannie Fresh soon propped up cameras in their living rooms. That battle was a rematch, of sorts, from a 2018 Summer Jam performance outside New York. As the world implodes from coronavirus and no one’s left the house in a month, music fans in staggering numbers have found comfort by tuning in to Instagram Live and watching Gen X hip-hop/R&B producers playing their hits from their laptops and ragging on each other in the comments section.Īfter DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine livestream became the lockdown’s must-have digital ticket (even for Oprah and Joe Biden), a digital DJ battle from dad-aged producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz became the talk of our shelter-in-place towns.
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