These 10 Forgotten 80s R&B Songs Secretly Changed Music Forever

#RnB #SoulMusic #80sR&B Some songs never leave the radio. These ten left it decades ago — and quietly became the foundation for half the music you hear today. This is the story of ten forgotten R&B records from the 1980s that never made the "greatest hits" specials, but somehow ended up sampled by Dr. Dre, The Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool J, and Missy Elliott — or sitting behind the biggest debut album a woman ever released, or inside the birth of an entire genre. From a talk box that got sampled over three hundred times, to a Detroit basement session that helped invent techno, to a snowstorm that got two producers fired and accidentally built the sound of Janet Jackson's "Control" — these are the records history skipped, and the reasons you should never have let it. If you grew up with any of these in the house, in the car, at a cookout, on a mixtape — I want to hear about it. Drop a comment and tell me where you first heard it. New Soul Rewind episodes drop regularly. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss the next one. #RnB #SoulMusic #80sRnB #DeBarge #NewEdition #GapBand #Shalamar #KoolandtheGang #Cameo #LeVert #MidnightStar #AtlanticStarr #ReadyForTheWorld #TheSystem #SOSBand #BlackMusicHistory #OldSchoolRnB #RnBVinyl #SoulHistory #ClassicRnB #80sMusic #ForgottenLegends #MusicHistory #QuietStorm #RnBCountdown #RnBHistory #SoulMusic #80sRnB #BlackMusicHistory #ForgottenHits #SoulRewind #MusicHistory #funkmusic #80sSoul #DeepCuts #RnBCountdown #MusicNerds #SampleHistory #TalkBox #JamAndLewis #DetroitTechno