List of alternative R&B artists
This is a list of alternative R&B artists. Alternative R&B (also known as PBR&B) fuses Contemporary R&B with other musical elements such as rock , hip hop , EDM , dream pop , cloud rap , progressive soul , soul , jazz , chillwave , electro hop , trap , electropop , funk , trip hop and future garage . The subgenre rose to prominence in the late 2000s and eventually became a popular genre into the 2010s.
Artists
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