Neo Soul Apprecation Thread

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ4MPHsmsM8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLL26IFVCFc

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4tdwqSLA0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQyx4EUG1s

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RBjMrRXTxI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUPzlWQxsE

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51BCFF1-Wks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMMdG0m7uc

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcb8KqC1IZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L1PmS0W87c

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhSwmmEVkkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7TFq93ajr4

Bodhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_kcZI9SxUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEj9QZakbxU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMs4UBVNfcI

T. Sanford

West Brooklyn wrote: »

my bad duke. I've been busy. I'll hit ya'll up tonight

its cool, I still gotta catch up with all the neo soul drops lol

T. Sanford

I dedicate this thread to @kai_valya

Bodhi

I'm gon address the fact that a lot of neo soul artists don't like to be called "neo soul" because they feel like it's a marketing tool or that it places them in a box. I feel like the point of making music is to be heard, regardless of whether you're considered mainstream or not. My argument is that neo soul artists should roll with the name. Why stick to plain "soul" music and attach yourself to what's already considered by most a genre that's held down mostly by the 60's and 70's?? Of course, that doesn't mean black people should stop making soul music or forget about that title but let's be real. 60's and 70's soul is different than what was and is currently being produced late 90's - 10's for the simple fact that with the emergence of neo soul, other genres were blended in and created something noticeably different than Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and the likes. How do you expect your fans to find you if you don't know what genre you're in? Sure, you would rather be labeled "soul" but that's just about as ambiguious as saying ? it and fusing every rock-n-roll artist (regardless of specific genre) in history under the umbrella labeled "rock"?? For example, yes, metal and punk are at their roots what we can all agree to call rock-n-roll, but they are two different sounds within the genre. Let's face it --- neo soul has a specific sound. I think neo soul ? itself over by bucking the name of the genre. If I didn't actually LOVE this ? , I wouldn't waste so much of my time scrounging the internet for neo soul artists I've never heard of and would probably never hear otherwise.