I’ve been listening to a shit ton of music that I’ll post about as I spottily remember it. But first, I want to prattle on about how amazing I think Musiq Soulchild is:
I recently decided to download the man’s entire studio discography. Roughly 80 tracks and not a one of them is bad, granted all of them aren’t spectacular. True, Musiq Soulchild has a great voice and works with decent producers, but that’s just not the point for me. Typically I’m afraid of downloading the discographies of male neo-soul artists because after a handful of songs I get upset about intraracial portrayals of gender in the black community… then I have to turn it off and take a black solidarity, stress-induced nap. Maybe I should lighten up, but I rather just hype Musiq for his positive, not-completely-fucked up accounts of women and storylines that don’t feature black men as violent, misogynist sexual predators.
Though I like all of his stuff, I recommend starting with at the beginning, if you want to try it out:
