Yeah, it is true - personally I see them as different genres, not two sides of the same coin. "Contemp R&B" is just urban pop: the mellow, laid-back beats of hiphop infused with a dose of lame pop divaship, or worse, the likes of Akon, T-Pain and Ne-Yo.

If one played some old rhythm and blues to a bunch of kids exposed only to urban contemp, they'd have no idea that they were listening to something that was also once termed "rhythm and blues". This to me shows that attempts to group them under a single umbrella are dubious, tenuous at best. Hell, modern r&b listeners don't even RESPECT old r&b. I've never come across an urban contemp station willing to play, every now and then, a 60s/70s r&b track. That's because they realize it just doesn't fit in with their sound at all. Modern rock stations by contrast will always be happy to play an old classic here and there.

Um, hard-bop? It's all Bud Powell these days (I wish)!

What happened to Akon making time capsules of modern music?

He's still at it. They're just not very good.

So it was a hoax. Especially with your Nickelback comments.

Errr.... Idk I think I remember hearing some statistic where country blew any other genre out the window in terms of radio air play.

Yeah, but country's consistent.

It has a market that almost never changes, except when someone breaks into the mainstream for their fifteen minutes of people pretending they haven't heard that crap a million times before.

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yeah.. i think that's really true these days.. :afro:

Hip Hop is dead, it died in the early 90's. Everything else that followed was mainstream ****e.

dammit Nas. See what you have everyone doing quoting that BS line about "hip hop is dead" when they have no clue what they are talking about. hip hop is still alive, kicking and doing well.....just because you can't look past the ring tone rappers and mainstream garbage to find it then that's on you.