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Originally posted by RightAsRain
The HIve keeps trying to lay claim on URBAN music as though there haven't been thousands of artists doing before Bey...So how the hell did y'all coe to the conclusion that Rih's urban style is based off Bey's.
They are so many things of Urban songs too so stop trying it with the more RNB bravado songs of Bey...Rih's a lil bit more different as they contain more of aggresive hip hop bravado and not RNB.
Urban---RNb/Funk---Upgrade you,Hip hop star and most of the other bey examples been given
Urban---Hip hop/Trap----BBHMM,COckiness,birthday cake,flawless,etc
Y'all such learn to differential sub genres before claiming anyone copied another.
For a music forum you guys lack in music knowledge....One rap song isn't influenced by the other rap songs that came before it because not all rap is hip hop,not all hip hop is the same..Bey's upgrade u,etc are NOTHING like the more aggressive Rih songs like PIU,Birtday cake,etc.
I don't blame you guys thou,when even the supposedly professional publications like billboard don't know how to differentiate genres and sub-genres there really is no hope for you guys to know better..
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omg....actual AGRESSIVE HIP HOP STYLE was incorpored by Beyoncé first in RING THE ALARM (2006) while Rihanna was trying some dance/pop music ***** to score her first #1 single.
even Nicki mentioned RING THE ALARM as a landmark song that incorporated agressive vocal approach in R&B songs and made it seem like Hip Hop.
Ciara, J.Lo, Rihanna etc... followed Beyoncé (agressive) & Destiny's Child (rhythmic/rapsinging) approach. they are many great reviewers articles about Beyoncé vocal approach underrated impact.
Writing about the group’s 1999 album, The Writing’s on the Wall, Rolling Stone magazine proclaimed:
“[Beyoncé’s] skittering, rhythmic, and hip-hop-derived approach to melody would help shift the entire landscape of R&B singing.”
http://www.rockhall.com/blog/post/ro...yonce-fashion/
plus I don't even know what kind of admiration yall have for Rihanna try at Beyoncé approach. she doesn't sound natural and her voice is pretty unfitting to the approach....
ps: UPGRADE U is Hip Hop / R&B song. FLAWLESS is a HIP HOP song. BIRTHDAY & COCKINESS are not TRAP.
bottom line is: Beyoncé did hip hop, did trap, did rapsinging, did agressive vocal approach better and before Rihanna. case closed/