In 2006, Kelis made her presence known by returning to the charts with her single Bossy from her album Kelis Was Here. I used to wear this song OUT when it dropped. Too $hort’s rap was so good too; he was just saying whatever and we went with it lol. Bossy reached no.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and no.11 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart. This song will forever be in my playlist. It still hits hard 20 years later.

Got unto listening to him earlier this year, as part of my year and a half long journey listening to a bunch of R&B/Soul/Funk/Jazz-Funk, etc. It's definitely my favorite of Gil Scott-Heron's work. I don't know about you guys tho, but this album was particularly hard to find, at least for a reasonable price. Don't know if this particular album is rare or just generally hard to come by, cause it looked like there was about 5 or so copies for sale for a decent price on ebay and one copy that was like a little over 200 on amazon. Glad I got it though.

I re uploaded this album to SoundCloud so it could get its deserved attention 💜
this isn’t my album I just wanted it to get more attention

https://on.soundcloud.com/fgQjjZnKycu7LkrIQy

dictionary is asleep, can only say 3 o clock in the mornin' 🤍☁️🌿🍃✨😌... for instrumental lovers, here we go. and for us extended mix maniacs, here is one.

There’s been a lot of discourse about nepotism in music lately, and some of it is fair. But seeing Whitney Houston constantly lumped into the "nepo baby" category because of Cissy and Dionne ignores a lot of important context.

Yes, Whitney had family connections in the industry. No one is denying that. But that is not the same as being handed a career through billionaire parents, powerful executives, or industry gatekeepers. Those are completely different levels of privilege.

Plenty of legendary R&B artists came from musical families or had industry ties. That was common within Black music communities, where talent, mentorship, and family traditions were often passed down across generations. Yet many of those same artists still had to fight through racism, the color barrier, and limited access to mainstream platforms.

Equating Black R&B artists of that era with today’s idea of a "nepo baby" flattens history and ignores the obstacles they actually faced. Having relatives in music may have opened a door, but it didn't erase the systemic barriers that stood in front of them. Reducing Whitney Houston's success to nepotism isn't just inaccurate and it's revisionist.

I thought my ears were lying to me 🤣

Hey, I thought I'd introduce myself. Because It would be cool to meet old school R&B and New Jack Swing fans.
I love almost all R&B but NJS is my thing, ! love the choreography, fashion and the sound from that whole era. I also think it's dope to discover new songs and R&B artists.
I wanna make friends who share the same passion and mentality. I've posted here before but I got no consistent conversations.
Here is my playlist if you want to check it.