Musiq says that he hopes that “I Do,” the single released from an album scheduled to drop in April, will join “Love,” “So Beautiful” and “Don’t Change” as a wedding anthem.A sample of Musiq Soulchild's 'Love' from Aijuswanaseing The light and breezy funk of “Just Friends” transformed the song into a summer anthem, while “Love” became one of several Musiq Soulchild cuts performed during wedding ceremonies. Musiq went on to become a consistent presence on the R&B charts after his first album, “Aijuswanaseing,” dropped in 2000. It was cool kicking it with those people and picking their brains, and it was empowering to know that we as young people were banding together to keep the legacy of music alive.” “We were all trying to get to something and we were all collectively supporting each other. “It was cool to be surrounded by people who were trying to get after the same thing but in different ways,” he says. Musiq’s artistic development took place after he left home at age 17 in a Philadelphia music scene that featured artists such as The Roots, Jill Scott, Kindred and the Family Soul, Jaguar Wright, the Jazzyfatnastees and Res. He says that question is as misleading as it is leading. Musiq sees the Facebook memes featuring the pictures of R&B legends - living and dead - asking provocatively and rhetorically, “Why ain’t nobody doing like this anymore?” I just feel that people ain’t supporting the stuff they are asking for, but they do support the stuff they say they tired of.” The soul man pauses for a moment, and then adds. “It’s up for grabs and it’s really about the people that’s in it and what they want it to be.” “I talk about this every now and then, and I really don’t know,” Musiq says. That inevitably leads to a question that nearly every hard-core R&B and soul fan has asked in recent years: What is the state of R&B music? Musiq Soulchild never went away, he says, as R&B fans attending his Valentine’s Day concert with Indianapolis native KeKe Wyatt at the Morris Performing Arts Center will see.įor many longtime R&B fans, the fact that an artist who grew up listening to and influenced by the classic soul sounds of Motown, Stax and Phildelphia International Records would feel the need to adopt a second life as a rapper symbolizes the sense of drift that pervades throughout the genre. Johnson says those who believed The Husel was a new identity rather than an alter-ego never understood what he was saying about the state of R&B music, the actual rather than stated preferences of many R&B music listeners, and the role he sees himself playing as an entertainer and artist. Johnson cut several rap tracks and made a rap video under the name The Husel in a 2014 move that elicited an often hilarious fusion of snark and nostalgia from Black Twitter. Plenty of people worried that the soulful crooner who was among the Philly-based artists to achieve fame when neo-soul had a sizable presence on the R&B charts during the late 1990s and early 2000s looked ready - to borrow from another Philly-based artist - to divorce the ballads and mid-tempo love songs that made him famous and take up with rap. Taalib Johnson wants the world to know that Musiq Soulchild is not going anywhere.
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