Baby, baby, be easy on me, please.Īnd the mothering myths… And they said.the love affair is instant. Swayed on the hammock on my porch listening to them mate, fight, and call each other as I savored the sweet vanilla Blue Bell ice cream. The cicadas, the frogs, the javelinas, the deer, the possums, the snakes, the scorpions all had their clocks trampling, buzzing, screeching, in and out of the land I occupied. And in Texas the days were slow and the air thick. Craved the days to go slow so time was mine. Because the protein made the baby strong, because the ice cream with all its fat was good for the brain. Baby, baby, be easy, so easy, because your father is hard.Īnd I craved things. To fuck but not his daddy, and so I ate peanut butter-banana sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and vanilla ice cream inside of espresso cups.

So we do have an educated say in this, like we have for nearly a decade now.įeel free to click any of the songs below to check out some of these great songs you may have missed.And I asked him. We also listened to the majority of singles sent our way. If you’re curious about our credentials, between us we listened to every R&B project we could get our hands on this year, including EPs. We all agree that the list you’ll find below came out fairly. Each of us nominated what we felt were the best songs we heard of the course of the year, and then debated which deserved to be included in the list. This list is a culmination of votes tallied by Tom and Kyle of YouKnowIGotSoul, and Edd of SoulInStereo. Once again, has collaborated with our friend Edd Bowser at to present the Top 100 R&B Songs of 2018. And of course like we always do, we included some album cuts that artists didn’t choose as singles. As you’ll see on the list below, many of these songs didn’t make an album.

We recently published our Top 10 Best R&B Albums of 2018 list, and acknowledged that while it wasn’t a great year for R&B, there were a bunch of good projects.Īdditionally, we continue to see the trend of artists releasing albums less frequently or not at all, opting instead for just singles or even EP’s. We’ve reached the end of 2018, and as is the tradition around here, we continue to look back on the year that was for r&b music.

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