okay., i'm not gonna argue about radio...whatever for that, however as far as to make a statement like "rnb does not use samples" is incorrect. now if you want to divide rnb up into "soul" sounding artists such as musiq and all that cool. musiq is no more deeper to me than mary j blige. or ashanti or whatever. it just so happens is that those are some of the artists that radio plays. that doesn't make a difference either, it's all rnb! but even jagged edge has used samples,,,hell they work with one of the biggest sampling producers in the game...Jermaine Dupri. so don't get me wrong i understand what you're saying about those artist you named,which i have about all those artists music, however there's still other artists that fall into the same category as rnb who have sampled elements in their song.