![]() While some of the originators of the sound (for example, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joi and Omar Lyefook) went under the radar to the broader music world, the triumvirate of D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and Maxwell hit heights that ensured the label stuck and the scene thrived. Those concerns notwithstanding, the new era of soul that it ushered in revitalized an organic take on soul that had been threatened with obliteration in the face of New Jack Swing and the juggernaut named hip-hop. Though clearly trying to provide shorthand for music lovers to identify a fresh take on the scene at the time, he also unwittingly offered another box to confine artists to. When Kedar Massenburg dropped the epithet “neo-soul” to describe a fresh branding of soul and R&B music that emerged in the US and UK in the early 1990s, he was (perhaps) unaware of the repercussions of doing so. ![]() ![]() ![]() Happy 20th Anniversary to Musiq Soulchild’s debut album Aijuswanaseing, originally released November 14, 2000.
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