AKel

[𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲. @midnighhtlover]

the most iconic family photo

[AKel @akel_iam]

@iamMelsmith I was waiting for u bro!

[Geeohhs @Geeohhs]

I miss all my producer friends who quit making music

[AJ SUEDE @AJSUEDE]

street 🥷's just add an italian last name to whatever their grandma used to call them and start rapping

[Lante ☪︎ @SavingMonday]

Brother these niggas don’t know the difference between a 808 and a snare. Think abt dat one

[dj short @_DJShort]

Q-Tip, D'Angelo, and engineer Ben Kane at Henson Studios in Hollywood during the "Black Messiah" sessions

[Busby 🏁 @MrBusby4o8]

Do NOT watch “Thriller 40”

[Brittney Carter @_BrittneyCarter]

Somewhere there’s a music exec at some indie label that pushes r&b, who ain’t ever heard a D’Angelo album

[KENYON DIXON @kennygotsoul]

I don’t even gotta be a part of it. Just make sure y’all tribute my boy right. He deserves nothing less but the absolute best there is for what he has given to music. Pull every favor you need to on any stage to make sure he is represented in a way that shows what he meant to us

[DJ R-Tistic @DJRTistic]

Every three months:

Person A: Complains about modern R&B

Person B: Gives examples of new artists and how you have to dig deeper

Person C: Says these examples are a far cry from artists in previous eras

Person D: Tells person C they’re stuck in the past

Wash, rinse, repeat.

[Nicolas-Tyrell Scott @iamntyrell]

Leon just dropped a new single, Coco wrapped her new tour a week ago, Miguel is about to drop again, Khamari, Isaia Huron, Sasha Keable, Giveon, Olivia Dean (more neo soul and pop but interrelated).

Folks are in the marketplace, I promise.

[DJ Pain 1 @djpain1]

Producers: It might only take an hour to make the drum pattern, the melody, the chord progression that changes your life forever.

[unicorn @jasjahne]

Yall move past music too quickly and then complain about the state of hip hop/rap. It’s not a lack of good music that’s the issue, it’s that yalls attention span is fucked up.

[WeGotLondonOnDaTrack @LondonOnDaTrack]

Chasing placements requires too much luck focus on your own shit

[Mel Smith @iamMelsmith]

Confessions is the perfect album because not only are the singles hit smashes, the most impressive parts of the album are in its album cuts. Dre & Vidal and Jam & Lewis were going back and forth… just lacing the album with GOLD.

[AKel @akel_iam]

@VedoTheSinger !!!!!

[AKel @akel_iam]

@iamMelsmith I was waiting for this take !

[PHABO 🧸 @whoisphabo]

“There’s crack in that song” whole time the crack be James Fauntleroy.

[chart data @chartdata]

US Certifications (@RIAA): YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Bad Bad Platinum (1,000,000).