The I Love RnB Festival, a pure ’90s and early ’00s R&B nostalgia fest, is making its debut at the Queen Mary festival grounds in Long Beach on Saturday, May 27.
With co-headliners Ashanti and Ja Rule, the single-day event also includes performances by Keyshia Cole, Fabolous, Bobby V, Pleasure P, Chingy, 702, Ruff Ends, Nivea, Marques Houston, Blaque and Lil Flip. The day will be filled with iconic R&B tunes reminiscent of the days we rocked those ringtones on our old Motorola Razr flip phones.
A few of these acts even joined forces to deliver some chart-topping duets back in the day, so there’s potential for some special live collaboration. Here are some of the jams we’re hoping to hear at the I Love RnB Festival.
“Right Thurr” by Chingy
It wouldn’t be a proper Chingy performance without hearing the fans singing along to “I like the way you do that right thurr.” Millennials fell in love with the St. Louis-based rapper’s 2003 single and now Gen Z has given the track a new life on TikTok.
“Always on Time” by Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
It seems only fitting that Ja Rule would bring out his longtime pal Ashanti for “Always on Time.” The hit comes from Ja Rule’s third studio album, “Love Is Pain,” and went on to be a No. 1 single, garner a Grammy nomination, and the music video is as iconic as the song itself. Though Ashanti also appears on Ja Rule’s songs “Mesmerize” and “The Pledge (Remix),” which also features 2Pac, “Always on Time” is the more likely live collaboration for the I Love RnB Festival.
“Foolish” by Ashanti
We’re betting on Ashanti feeling a bit nostalgic during her co-headlining set and hoping she’ll go back to the song that started it all. “Foolish” was the debut single from the New York-raised songstress that samples DeBarge’s “Stay With Me.” The song spent 10 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, was nominated for a Grammy in 2003 and won a Soul Train Music Award that…
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