They don’t play the real music, and don’t even realize that our following is waiting. They are playing music for the teenie boppers. So the music game gets over-saturated and washed up. See, the internet has made almost everyone a star. Teddy Pendergrass, El DeBarge, Tina Mari, Rick James and so on. I came up when there was a lot of great R&B artist. They are young and just like hip-hop, they have changed and sort of lost the essence of it all… making a woman cry and making her feel good is what R&B is all about.īOSSIP: What do you think is fueling that lack of compassion and caring in todays music?ĭONELL: I think, there is not a lot of guidance and lack of respect enough to study what made R&B special. They don’t sing to the women with sensitivity. Not enough substance.īOSSIP: What about the new generation of R&B?ĭONELL: To be honest with you is they are talented, but they want to be rappers. To many of the R&B artist right NOW are concentrating on bling and how many girls they ran through. So, when this happened to Haiti I felt the song was really needed. When LaFace shut down all the artist went haywire.īOSSIP: What was the approach you took on this latest song, “Free”?ĭONELL: I wrote it around the time of 9/11. They have too many R Kellys, Justin Timberlakes, Ushers, Anthony Hamiltons… I couldn’t get the push i needed. Then he got with this woman (his current wife) and had a little girl.ĭONELL: I was in a horrible situation with Jive. So he got 4 kids my a woman he was with for over 10 years.
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