Dwann B’s Top 20 R&B Producers Listening Party | Part 1

Part 1 of my Top 20 R&B Producers Listening Party.

Playing the records behind the names and talking through the production choices that shaped R&B—from live bands, strings, horns, rhythm sections, and vocal arrangements to the producers who helped create the modern sound.

This is about hearing the difference: the grooves, the chords, the bass lines, the drums, the instrumentation, and the musical worlds these producers built.

Part 2 coming soon.
Erykah Badu is back with her first album in over a decade, Before the World Blows—a full collaboration with The Alchemist.

This is a meeting of two real musical architects: Badu’s cosmic, soulful voice over Alchemist’s dusty, cinematic, hip-hop-rooted production. Does the album live up to the long wait? I’m giving my honest review—what works, what surprised me, and where this project sits in Erykah Badu’s catalog.