I said fuck it… And went independent I’m in Brooklyn NY on the train selling my #BlackRose album and this happened!! Watch the full video on my Facebook.com/Tyrese #BlackRose link is in my bio

A video posted by TYRESE (@tyrese) on Jul 10, 2015 at 12:47pm PDT

Is R&B dead.?? What happened to REAL R&B Fans?? Can we SAVE R&B Soul Music? Are the days of REAL singers over?? Link in my bio let’s make a statement buy the FULL ALBUM now… A video posted by TYRESE (@tyrese) on Jul 10, 2015 at 10:15am PDT

Sometimes you just gotta take em back to where it ALL STARTED!!!!!! 20 years ago…. I took this ride and it changed my life forever – to God be ALL the Glory… Watch he full video on my Facebook.com/Tyrese #BlackRoseMission #Determination #DreamBig #CocaCola my original family…..

A video posted by TYRESE (@tyrese) on Jul 14, 2015 at 8:25am PDT

If what all three of these artists have done isn’t a sign of the times, then I don’t now what is! Back in the day the power of the internet didn’t exist, so they HAD to rely on the big record labels for push. In this new digital social media era we’re in, artists are taking back their control, putting their destiny back into their own hands and placing the power back into the hands of the people, while simultaneously snatching it away from the big corporate media machines. When you have artists like Erykah Badu who has sold over 6 million albums, Tyrese who has sold over 2 million records, and Brandy who’s sold over 40 million records, being able to put the power in the people’s hands, where it should have been in the first place, we are definitely living in a new day and age. Our only hope is that more artists begin to have the courage to do the same.