Eb’s 10 Non-Singing Ass Singers That People Swear Can Sing
Avid listener of my Arbiters of A&R podcast, Sirron alerted me of this post my boy Panama Jackson wrote on the Very Smart Brothas website that wasn’t very smart LOL. This post has probably played out on my twitter timeline several times over the years because it irks my nerves more than anything else when people are biggin’ up someone that sounds a hot ghetto mess. I do agree that Mary J Blige, Amerie (I refuse to put that extra unnecessary “i” in her name), Ralph Tresvant and most definitely Slim and Keith Sweat were rightfully placed on this list, but John Legend, Carl Thomas and Musiq making a non-singing ass singers list is a bit much. I can even make an argument for Alicia Keys but because of “Girl On Fire” I’ll let her stay for the time being.
Here is who I would swap out the above 3 with:
- Ashanti — Her range is extremely basic.
- Marsha Ambrosius — Billy goat vocals on a trillion.
- Trey Songz — We’ve been enabling this hood yodeling for far too long because he’s so damn cute. Its time to stop the madness.
I don’t even know if people swear they can sing but lets put Kandi & T-Boz in a reserve spot in case people do since Panama added Total on his list LOL. This meme explains my sentiments
There are a couple people that have passed on that y’all praise like they had the best voices ever, but I’m going to keep my mouth shut on them and let them continue to rest in peace. But lets not only call out the people we grew up on lets also put the newbies on blast that are making ears bleed all across ‘Murica.
- The Weeknd — I seriously need them to stop comparing this dude to MJ.
- Frank Ocean — Everyone wants his return and I’m perplexed as to why. Amazing songwriter, terrible singer.
- Jhene Aiko — Only Janet Jackson gets the whisper singing pass girl so have several seats.
- Bryson Tiller — DON’T talk sing another note bruh. #Dont
- August Alsina- Granted he probably has the best voice of these listed above but that baaaahhh sheep mess he does is the worst.
- Elle Varner — I’m still upset y’all let “Refill” fly.
- Jeremih — Do I even need to explain why he’s on this list?
So since this post wasn’t about stating the obvious people like Ciara, Rihanna, J-Lo, Akon and others that we can all with any kind of working ears agree that they can’t sing, who are some other artists that people cape for and swear up and down they can sing when they can’t. Hit me in the comments!
