Rhythm and Blues are the foundations for true Afro-American music. Soul music unites those rhythms and those blues with words filled with love, passion, and revolution. The voices of soul are pregnant with years of oppression and suffering yet there is optimism within every voice. Optimism for a better tomorrow and a brighter today. Raphael Saadiq is true neo-soul. His music is Marvin Gaye meets Stevie Wonder meets The Funk Brothers, all rolled into an infectious rhythm that will leave a smile on anyone's face. This young man is true music.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
--Robert Frost
Work Ethic.
Change.
Song.
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
He's crazyy live.
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