“As much as I loved ‘Get You,’” Chery remembers thinking, “I was like, is this gonna work?” “I’m like, this is what’s easy to break in the streaming era - anything post 808s, post So Far Gone, post House of Balloons.” While those artists reoriented R&B around somber synths, bruising beats, and glum blots of bass, Caesar’s single was glossy and unerringly gentle, a tranquil bubble of funk. “The two guys that I had success with at that time in terms of championing early were Bryson Tiller and 6lack,” Chery says. He had selected Daniel Caesar’s “Get You,” a soft R&B ballad with Kali Uchis, but Chery was nervous that the record wouldn’t connect in the modern R&B climate. In October 2016, Carl Chery, head of artist curation for Apple Music, went on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show to premiere a record for the first time. Photo: John Parra/Getty Images for Revolt Music
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