Muni Long - No R&B ft Ann Marie

What this video is

Released October 13, 2021, 'No R&B' arrived as the lead single of Muni Long's Public Displays of Affection EP, a pivotal project in her artist reinvention from prolific ghost-songwriter (Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Fifth Harmony, Pitbull) to autonomous R&B frontwoman under her own Supergiant Records imprint. The video participates in a broader early-2020s trend of Black women reclaiming classic R&B tropes — ride-or-die…

Why it matters

A genre marker for the post-2019 independent contemporary R&B wave helmed by Black female singer-songwriters. The title itself is both ironic and declarative: a song that is unmistakably R&B in feel asserting its resistance to genre labeling, mirroring Muni Long's own career-long negotiation…