RnB

[originalfunkbrother]

A great article in The Guardian but only great because of the responses by some who know the REAL meaning of RNB:

[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/18/tim-jonze-on-shuffle-rnb"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/18/tim-jonze-on-shuffle-rnb[/url]

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='funkygreega' timestamp='1329581029' post='1544503']
the REAL meaning of RNB[/quote]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues"]http://en.wikipedia....hythm_and_blues[/url]

[quote name='wikipedia' timestamp='1329581029' post='1544503'][b]Rhythm and blues[/b], often abbreviated to [b]R&B[/b], is a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre"]genre[/url] of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music"]popular[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_music"]African American music[/url] that originated in the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s"]1940s[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues#cite_note-0"][1][/url][/sup] The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz"]jazz[/url] based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues#cite_note-palmer146-1"][2][/url][/sup]
............................................. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_R%26B"]Contemporary R&B[/url]".[/quote]