R&B has been “killed” by the feminist movement, according to a former record executive-turned-podcaster who once worked with the likes of Future, Usher, Ciara, and many others.
Ray Daniels, host of The Gauds Show (Goats and Underdogs), made the claim in an episode of the podcast on Friday (May 12).
“R&B has been killed by the feminine movement,” he said. “The stars are all women. There are no male R&B stars. But here’s why: there’s nothing a male R&B singer can say today, that’s been said in the past, that’s not considered toxic masculinity.”
He continued: “‘I know you wanna leave me, but I refuse to let you go.’ Today, that’s considered toxic masculinity. Listen to Keith Sweat, “Wrong and the Right Way.” [sic] ‘You may be young, but you’re ready.’ Today, that would be like, ‘Excuse me!?’ ‘If you think you’re lonely now, wait until tonight.’ That’s gaslighting in today’s world.”
While Daniels believes that it’s only male R&B singers who are getting canceled, there are some women in the game who fear the same thing — most notably, Summer Walker, who recently claimed she was afraid of getting canceled once people realized who she was once the cameras stop rolling.
“It took me 27 years to figure out why I’m so shy,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories back in March. “It’s cause I’m trying real hard not to say something crazy. I’m literally walking around over thinking how to not hurt anyone’s feelings. Deep down I’m ghetto Af n I be scared ima get canceled.”
Daniels, however, is correct that the women of R&B are having a banner year. Last week, it was revealed that SZA matched Beyoncé’s chart dominance, becoming the only Black woman besides Mrs. Carter to have achieved both a No. 1 album and a No. 1 song in the 2020s.
“To be next to the queen is an honor,” SZA wrote on her Instagram Story earlier this month with a screenshot of the news.
And last month, H.E.R. met the Golden State Warriors and her hero, Steph Curry — something the Grammy winner called a Top 5 moment of her life.
“TOP 5 MOMENTS EVER!!!!!! FELT SO GOOD TO BE HOME. THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE. Brought back so many memories,” she wrote on Instagram. “I sang the national anthem at a warriors game when I was a kid lol crazy to be back. And thank you for the jersey, Steph, You’re the GOAT. I’m so inspired by you!!!!”
Dude that beat the shit out of Rihanna and made her look like Mitch Green has sold like 200 million records. That’s feminist? What the fuck is this dummy talking about? The music just is bad. Mofos can’t play any instruments, produce their own music, and sing all of this hypersexualized shit like they’re rappers. I don’t want to hear any R&B song talking about hit it from the back and suck my dick or eat me out. I want to hear actual R&B music when I hit that genre. It started with the rapper collabo on an R&B hit, which was always 9 times out of 10 terrible, and then it just went all the way sideways with the dirty R&B star.
Who are the others? You brought up an outlier due to his fan base before the feminist cancel culture movement. Your post is short sighted false equivalent
Trey Songz, Tory Lanez, Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, etc. all of the female stars like Summer Walker, SZA, etc. It’s halfway rap music with hypersexualized lyrics. R&B song comes on, and the singer is talking about I want to fuck you in falsetto. Female singer is talking about bitch n***** fuck me right. Put these panties in your mouth. That shit ain’t what anybody wants to hear. I was always of the belief that you needed to keep the genres as separate as possible or you’d get this. The success of collabos like Biggie’s and a few others got more of this happening unfortunately, and then the R&B rap star was birthed out of R. Kelly probably pushing that envelope so far. He actually could switch back into the other mode like with that soul album he put out a few years back, but most can’t. Like Trey Songz whole discography after his first album sounds completely different on some rap R&B shit, and that’s the direction of the whole mainstream R&B genre.
Also, CB did that shit when his career was starting out. His image was totally different before that incident with songs like Yo (Excuse Me Miss) and With You. He did that when he was 19 years old, but you’re talking about cancel culture and how he already had a fan base that prevented that from happening. FOH. He just embraced that rap R&B star shit because he didn’t have a choice at that point, coming back out talking about suck his dick and he’s going to break every woman’s back that he fucks. Men who hate women embraced him for beating a woman, and the hoes who like bad boys rocked with it too, which saved his career. He suddengly became one of the hook men for rap songs. Didn’t have shit to do with feminism or cancel culture.
A record executive what did he contribute to stop it
SZA me Daddy Ass
The Weeknd would like a word.