If you wanna be real about the music you listen to, sorting through your collection of R&B artists is a great way to get back to basics. No doubt this is where Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge go to when they collaborated for their NxWorries project.
"Daydreaming" is their second single to drop since October of 2022 with "Where I Go" featuring H.E.R. for their upcoming sophomore album.
Both of these tracks are the first singles to be released since their acclaimed 2018 debut "Yea Lawd!"
R&B Artists Knxwledge & Paak
Unless you're deep in the know about these guys, the only name to stand out from the two is Anderson .Paak.
Of course, Knxwledge cut his teeth with some Meek Mills reworking along with being in great company with upper-crust talent and NxWorries lets him do that.
But if you haven't heard their NxWorries' 2018 debut "Yes Lawd!", you've got plenty of time to catch up.
These last two singles have been a slow trickle to a follow-up album which the duo has promised to put out for some time now.
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It's Simple, Effective, But Nothing New
The hype builds around Anderson .Paak is earned.
I'm not gonna lie, I had to check this out as soon as it dropped and... I'm not sure what to think of it.
It checks off all the things that make a R&B song accessible but I already can't help but think that a new generation won't be triggered by this like I was.
I'm sure everyone who's old enough or listens to enough popular 70s music will hear "Baby Come Back" by Player from 1977, who did a much better version of this.
"Daydreaming" just comes across as lazy and drifting, which, by name is perhaps the whole point.
Paak and Knxwledge went into the studio one day, perhaps just hearing Player's hit single and felt that it fell right into their R&B groove.
Nothing is more embarrassing than knowing you lifted an entire hit song.
What's worse is that "Daydreaming" takes the main melody, the most popular part of Player's hit and use it for the entire song!
I'm only being harsh here because these guys already have it made and so it doesn't matter how lazy this track is, it's still going to be praised as top-notch R&B.
The song title, ironically, is a stream of consciousness just as it might have been when they were putting this thing together.
Fuck it, let's save some time and use it anyway.
Like most of us, however, I'm waiting for the new album to be able to appreciate this more, as with the "Aw Lawd!"
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