Neo-Soul
D'Angelo / Erykah Badu / Jill Scott lineage. Live-band-feel grooves, conversational phrasing, dense concrete-detail receipts on every emotional claim.
Quick facts
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One-click starter prompt hand-tuned for Neo-Soul. Exercises: NCD + AID rule + concreteness
A neo-soul song. Every emotional claim ships with a concrete receipt. She left, but more specifically: she left her toothbrush in the green ceramic cup, her hairband on the bathroom doorknob, the Spotify queue still set to her playlist. Show the leaving through what stayed.
Parent arc · SA#23
“Vulnerability without receipts is performance.”
R&B trades on emotional vulnerability — but every emotional claim must ship with a concrete receipt. The Narrative Concrete Density primitive operationalizes the AID rule: every emotional-claim line needs a companion line supplying an Action / Image / Detail. 5 substyles span classic-soul → trap-soul. Generic "I love you" stays out; "you left your toothbrush in the green ceramic cup" stays in.
The load-bearing primitive is NCD — applied to every r&b lyric the forge produces, including Neo-Soul.
Forbidden Archive · 10 failure modes
Neo-Soul inherits the full R&B Forbidden Archive. The critic loop flags any of these by canonical name.
Other R&B substyles
Forge a Neo-Soul song
The forge applies the r&b substyle profile for Neo-Soul, banned failure modes, and NCD as a pre-output gate.