00:00The billboard is always about chart success but not only that but cultural impact and see the
00:21buzz and how they're resonating not just online but the streets as well the kids are talking
00:25about you most likely we're gonna cover y'all and see what's up tonight I'm most excited to
00:29see Leon Thomas and Odile gag it Odile what Raven Laney too I'm most excited to see Jell-o for sure
00:36Leon as well it's gonna be my third time seeing him and I'm gonna see him again on my birthday so
00:41Leon Thomas you don't have to finish the question you don't have to finish it
00:48Leon Thomas had such a breakthrough moment
00:58my what number one on the hot R&B hip-hop songs and three different radio formats I think my
01:11definitely resonated with the culture so much because it has a lot of essence of p-funk Bootsy
01:18Collins I feel like post pandemic everybody got into a little toxic energy so it's like perfectly toxic
01:24I'm definitely excited to see Raven I love her music it's a very like chill soulful vibe and she
01:37just always puts me in a good mood I'm absolutely excited to see Raven Laney I've loved her forever
01:41I got onto her train when she came out with candy and she's just the total package in terms of her
01:50songwriting the lyrics very relatable lyrics like her hot song love me not kind of a play on the whole
01:57Daisy thing he loves me he loves me not my music is resonating because once you are true to
02:07something for so long and you're pressing at something you don't really stay away from that
02:10at a certain point people turn their heads and they listen people feel light when they hear my music they
02:17feel like they're talking to me and I think my favorite songs I get that feeling from my favorite artists
02:24I'm most excited to see jello big jello definitely jello because I'm gonna swear down that corner
02:35whoa jello brings like a nostalgic 2010s type of vibe which everyone missed at one point in time
02:44oh jello he has a top 30 song with tweaker that just took over the internet sports world for two months
02:50I feel like I can get the people pumped up and that's how I grew up that's what I came up on
03:00seeing so it's like it ain't nothing new like you probably heard some shit and could relate to it
03:04and my beat selection is nice don't let that go over your head
03:07absolutely um Odile I missed him when he played here I went to London and I missed him in fucking
03:16London so I am trying to see him right now I'm most excited to see Odile because I absolutely love
03:22his last album it's so beautiful I think what makes Odile so special he's been able to meld so
03:27many different genres afro fusion alto he is also has a very international upbringing he's been able
03:33to tap into those local scenes and put all of it into his catalog he has a hit song called London
03:39summers which became his first top 10 on the u.s afrobeat songs chart
03:43the summer that saved me is a project which is supposed to be a soundtrack to the best summer
03:51since 2016 obviously as we all know 2016 was a summer which everyone remembers for various reasons
03:57possibly whenever anyone catches on to this project it'll be the soundtrack to the summer that saved
04:01them in terms of like learning new things unlearning bad habits entering like a new stage of their life
04:07people want authentic music they want truth in it they want relatability they want to be able to say
04:19I've experienced that and and see that somebody else has and that helps them through and I think right
04:25now that's very very important and then you've got people like a Rayman Lene who's been inspired by
04:30Erica Badu's the Janet Jackson's the outcasts they're just taking it to the next level and folks need to be
04:36open to that and let people be aware that this music is out here
04:40I'm a black woman and I walk with that experience and carry that with me it's so special for me
04:46when I get to look out in the crowd and see so many black women close their eyes and sing the lyric
04:50and really feel the music we share an experience together that's like no other so whenever I get to
04:57hit that spot for a black woman like I nailed it
05:05with social media it really has just broken any doors when it comes to artist discovery you don't
05:11have to be in the same city state or country you can find a new artist from wherever in the world
05:17I'm not naturally like a social media person listen it's the driver of music today it's our MTV you know
05:23it's that new shiny machine that can essentially get your voice heard to the world
05:27things like TikTok have definitely played a part in having an effect on R&B and Afrobeats music in general
05:35to be fair it's made people more privy to the two different genres and all genres in general
05:41people now are like oh what's this sound I like this what's this I like this and then you have artists
05:47artists that tap into both and able to fuse the two the opportunity is just so boundless and that
05:53can be a scary thing but also a really fun thing if you lean into it I think that is the gift of social
06:00media and people being able to really handpick what they like versus being fed certain songs that they
06:08should like one major thing that I've noticed when I interview a lot of these African rookies of the
06:12month a lot of them have grown up listening to like early aughts R&B they're always mentioning
06:17Destiny's Child Whitney Houston Chris Brown Boyz II Men as a lot of their influences and it's dope to see
06:24how they take the R&B that we've come to know and love and fuse it with local sounds it's like that
06:29shit never really left me so when I make music now people be like oh he sound like some older
06:34shit I'm a big fan of Prince Marvin Gaye Stevie Wonder even later on in my life like Frank Ocean
06:39Usher and Neon by my mom she played a lot of soul music a lot of R&B growing up Destiny's Child
06:46was something she played over and over she was in her 20s going through it I grew up listening to a lot
06:51of um you know soul R&B Afro beats a lot of Afro beats my mom had like Celine Dion in the career of
06:59Whitney Houston she used to listen to a lot of Brandy R&B is really interesting right now because I think we're
07:04in almost a transitional phase where a lot of people you know rightfully so are hanging on to
07:12what they grew up with and the the sounds that they're familiar with but I think there's something
07:16so interesting and exciting on the horizon just beyond that I'm hopeful that people would you know
07:23be open to and want to experience but there's so many amazing artists right now in R&B and soul
07:30funk spaces alt spaces even that are really pushing things and doing something special I think
07:37it's up to us as consumers and listeners to be open to what's new I think it's just a cycle
07:44throughout history we've seen older generations kind of turn up their nose at at some of the younger
07:50generations music they can always find somebody that they really like if they look hard enough
07:54there's millions of songs released every week on Spotify and Apple Music me personally I love to kind
07:59of like scroll through all the up-and-coming artists and you know find somebody new if I can I remember
08:03at the time like very very early on anything that came out of Africa was Afrobeats but now like you
08:08have like artists from Nigeria making R&B Afrofusion there's like a wider palette that the world are now
08:13getting accustomed to I think pop music is really inspired by R&B currently it's really cool to see
08:18more artists kind of attack more urban themes without losing their own essence we've seen that before
08:25throughout history Britney Spears and the Justin Timberlake moments but I think we're going to see
08:29more of that in the next like five years I'm a big fan of pushing the envelope and trying new things and
08:35experimenting with different palettes the more we're accepting of that and open to that the more we
08:43get to really find our best artists let's bring Bridges back it just kind of buttons up the stories I kind
08:50of miss the fact that we get to do a different chord change a little a little rain moment I'm excited
08:55for what else comes from this moment
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