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Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B and RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.
The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B".
Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term "rhythm and blues" in 1948 as a musical marketing term in the United States. It replaced the term "race music", which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the postwar world. The term "rhythm and blues" was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, when its "Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles" chart was renamed as "Best Selling Soul Singles".
Hard to imagine the blood that's runnin' through the veins
Nothin? but trouble, inside of me liberty in chains
Born to a nation, the children and their innocence
An idiot wind blows through this land
Dear Lord give me strength
Breakin? out of the skin, need some rhythm and blues
Coming deep from within, it? s those rhythm and blues
Breakin? out of the skin, need some rhythm and blues
Coming deep from within, it? s those rhythm and blues
Down in the ghetto, marking time with self-belief
Babylon voices, square-eyed dreams of dignity
Feeling the pressure, searching for another place
Lift up our voices, use our minds we will be released
Breakin? out of the skin, need some rhythm and blues
Coming deep from within, it? s those rhythm and blues
Breakin? out of the skin, need some rhythm and blues
Coming deep from within, it? s those rhythm and blues
Rhythm come from within
Breaking out deep from within
The sunshine in our eyes, my skin in a different disguise
The sunshine in our eyes, my skin in a different disguise
The sunshine in our eyes, my skin in a different disguise
The sunshine in our eyes, my skin in a different disguise
Breakin? out of the skin, need some rhythm and blues
Coming deep from within, it? s those rhythm and blues
Breakin? out of the skin, need some rhythm and blues
Coming deep from within, it? s those rhythm and blues
My rhythm and blues
My rhythm and blues
Feel it deep within my skin
My rhythm and blues
Feel it deep within my skin
My rhythm and blues
My rhythm and blues
My rhythm and blues