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Topic subjectDonny Hathaway was the Tupac Shakur of soul music.
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14071, Donny Hathaway was the Tupac Shakur of soul music.
Posted by Solitayre, Fri Aug-01-03 02:56 PM
And vice versa.

Immense potential.

Didn't ruin his style by OVERTHINKING a topic, and still had the words had MUCH Impact on the listener.

Has so many sons in the game copying his style.

Mastered his delivery. Stage presence.

And you can't really be a fan of his musical genre unless acknowledge his impact on it.

Donny had just as much soul as Stevie. He used them down home blues WAY more than Stevie did.

Stevie at the time was the mad scientist with Soul merging it with er'ythang he could get his hands on from Afro Cuban to Country to Disco.

>donny was just haunting...that's his only appeal to this
>generation of listeners now...from his strange habits to his
>lurid and mysterious death

It wouldn't have anything to do with him making good music that people could relate to, huh, Block? We're just enthralled with the aesthetic huh?

Relax, log off, go out and buy you a drink Professor Xavier. You proved ya point.