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Nothin' on You is a Contemporary R&B act. Their sound grew out of Prince, A Tribe Called Quest, JAY-Z, Alicia Keys and Coldplay. Those roots explain a lot about how Nothin' on You arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Love the Way You Lie, Let You Love Me, Dancing with a Stranger, A Sky Full Of Stars and Cake by the Ocean, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Roll Deep and Jason Derulo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Nothin' on You, reaching back through Prince and forward to Roll Deep. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Nothin' on You" is a song by American rapper B.o.B, featuring American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. It was released by Rebel Rock, Grand Hustle, and Atlantic Records on December 15, 2009, as the lead single from B.o.B's debut studio album, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray (2010). The track was written by B.o.B, Mars, Philip Lawrence, and Ari Levine, with the latter three producing it as the Smeezingtons. "Nothin' on You" was initially written for Lupe Fiasco, but Atlantic Records's chairman, Craig Kallman, gave it to B.o.B after being displeased with Fiasco's version. The song took several months to finish and was born from a hummed melody by Mars and Lawrence.
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Nothin' on You grew out of Prince, A Tribe Called Quest, JAY-Z and Alicia Keys, shares an orbit with Love the Way You Lie, Let You Love Me, Dancing with a Stranger and A Sky Full Of Stars, went on to shape Roll Deep and Jason Derulo. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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