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Features
Build complete R&B songs end-to-end with generation, transformation, and arrangement tools designed to work together.
Turn a simple prompt or full lyric sheet into complete, production-ready music. MakeRNB analyzes your text, intent, and style direction to create cohesive melodies, harmonies, vocals, and arrangement layers.
Extend your existing audio while preserving its timing, tone, and musical identity. Perfect for lengthening intros, creating longer verses, or building cleaner outros without losing continuity.
Recreate a track with a new vocal texture and stylistic direction while keeping the core composition intact. Shift genre character, performance color, and production tone in a single workflow.
Combine two tracks into a single cohesive result by merging rhythm, melody, and vibe. Great for creative prototyping, crossover ideas, and hybrid production experiments.
Add expressive AI vocals to your existing instrumental without rebuilding the track. Keep groove and timing aligned while introducing new toplines and lyrical direction.
Generate new melodic phrases on top of your track to discover stronger hooks and lead moments. Expand musical storytelling without replacing your original arrangement foundation.
Introduction
From soulful roots to modern evolution, explore the genres that shaped music
R&B Timeline
Rhythm and Blues blends soulful vocals with rhythm-driven grooves. Emerging in the 1940s and evolving through soul, funk, and disco, it became one of the most influential genres shaping modern popular music.
Explore four key eras to see how artists reshaped R&B while preserving its emotional core.
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01R&B was born out of gospel, blues, and jazz. Back in the 1940s, artists like Ray Charles and Ruth Brown were crafting music that felt both spiritual and raw, pulling church sounds into dance halls. Sam Cooke gave us smooth ballads that melted hearts, while groups like The Drifters built the blueprint for vocal harmony groups to come.
02By the '70s, R&B had grown up. The music got funkier, more political, and undeniably groovy. Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye delivered records that spoke to love, hope, and social change. Bands like Earth, Wind & Fire and Parliament-Funkadelic kept dance floors alive with explosive energy. And then there was Aretha Franklin, reminding the world that R&B vocals could be pure power and soul.
03Ask any R&B fan, and they'll tell you: the '90s were magic. This was the decade when R&B ruled the charts and gave us unforgettable sounds. New Jack Swing fused hip-hop beats with slick R&B. Hip-Hop Soul was raw and emotional. Quiet Storm delivered lush ballads. Neo-Soul brought a jazzy, funk-inspired twist.
04Fast-forward to the present, and R&B has gone global. It blends with hip-hop, pop, electronic, and even indie. Usher and Beyoncé carried R&B into the mainstream, while artists like Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, and H.E.R. pushed boundaries with moody, intimate, genre-blurring music.
A quick guide to the signature sounds that defined 90s R&B and shaped today's generation workflows.
New Jack Swing was the heartbeat of dance floors in the early 90s. Created by producer Teddy Riley, it fused R&B melodies with hip-hop beats, giving R&B a harder, funkier edge. Characteristics: Swing beats, punchy drum machines, funky basslines, choreographed group performances.
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If New Jack Swing was about fun, Hip-Hop Soul was about raw honesty. Coined in the early 90s, this style blended hip-hop's gritty beats with the emotional storytelling of R&B, making it the "real voice of the streets." Characteristics: Urban edge, hip-hop rhythms, deeply personal lyrics.
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By the mid-to-late 90s, a new wave arrived: Neo-Soul. Mixing classic soul with modern R&B, jazz, and funk, this genre was poetic, organic, and deeply introspective. It spoke to listeners looking for depth and authenticity. Characteristics: Organic instruments, jazzy harmonies, laid-back grooves, thoughtful lyrics.
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Originally a 70s radio format, Quiet Storm R&B took on a new life in the 90s. This was the soundtrack of late nights — silky, romantic, and designed for candlelit moods. Characteristics: Slow tempos, lush arrangements, intimate lyrics.
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